A Brooklyn bodega employee was killed Friday afternoon by an irate buyer who stabbed him a number of occasions, police stated.
Diego Sandoval-Nava, 33, was working at a deli and mini market on Hegeman Ave. in East New York when a person got here into the shop round 3 p.m. and brought on a disturbance, police stated.
Employees on the bodega requested the person to go away, and he did. However he returned quickly after and stabbed Sandoval-Nava a number of occasions within the torso when the sufferer tried to forestall him from coming behind the counter, a police supply stated.
After stabbing Sandoval-Nava, the attacker ran off.
Medics rushed Sandoval-Nava to Brookdale Hospital the place medical doctors pronounced him lifeless.
To this point, there have been no arrests as police proceed to search for the attacker, cops stated.
In Could, Mayor Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch introduced the town would set up panic buttons linked to the NYPD in about 500 bodegas throughout the 5 boroughs. The brand new initiative got here after a string of killings in bodegas, together with two slayings in 48 hours in April. It was not instantly clear if the bodega the place Sandoval-Nava labored has acquired a panic button.
Initially Printed: August 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM EDT
