According to cops, an angry customer killed a Brooklyn bodega employee Friday afternoon by stabbing him several times.
According to authorities, Diego Sandoval-Nava, 33, was employed at a deli and mini market on Hegeman Avenue in East New York when a man entered the establishment at approximately 3 p.m. and started a fight.
The man complied with the bodega employees’ request to depart. However, when the victim attempted to stop him from approaching behind the counter, he returned shortly after and repeatedly stabbed Sandoval-Nava in the torso, according to a police source.
The assailant stabbed Sandoval-Nava and fled.
Sandoval-Nava was taken by ambulance to Brookdale Hospital, where medical professionals declared him deceased.
Police say they are still searching for the perpetrator and have not yet made any arrests.
The city will install panic buttons connected to the NYPD in roughly 500 bodegas throughout the five boroughs, according to a May announcement made by Mayor Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. Following a spate of murders in bodegas, including two in a 48-hour period in April, the new program was launched. It was unclear at first if Sandoval-Nava’s workplace, a bodega, had been equipped with a panic button.
