Fired NYC laptop retailer employee who hid below practice busted in daylight taking pictures of ex-boss: sources

The fired laptop restore retailer employee who shot his former boss in a broad-daylight Higher West Aspect assault was busted Friday morning — practically 24 hours after he escaped by means of subway tunnels and even hid out below a practice, regulation enforcement sources stated. 

Eduardo Diaz, 42, of Queens, was picked up on a warrant and charged with tried homicide, assault and weapon possession in connection to the Thursday morning taking pictures that wounded Boris Shapiro, 47, at West 69th Avenue and Columbus Avenue, the sources stated. 

“I heard,” Shapiro instructed The Publish of Diaz’s arrest when reached by telephone Friday at Mount Sinai Morningside, the place he was recovering. “I really feel nice. I used to be nervous that he’d come again once more.”

Diaz hung his head as detectives led him out of the twentieth Precinct station home – and refused to reply questions on why he allegedly shot his ex-boss. 

He saved his head tilted away from cameras as detectives led him into an awaiting unmarked automotive and mounted the seat belt. 

His arraignment was pending Friday afternoon.

The 2 males labored collectively on the close by Lincoln Enterprise Machines Integrated, sources stated — and Diaz had been fired months earlier than the taking pictures, the sufferer instructed PIX 11 Thursday evening.

“I’m steady. I must be advantageous,” Shapiro instructed the outlet. “[The gunman] acquired fired six months or a yr in the past.”

Diaz confirmed up at his former office a couple of block away from the scene shortly earlier than the taking pictures, however left with out hurting anybody, the sufferer instructed the outlet. 

However Shapiro, fearing his ex-employee was able to worse, adopted the menace up Columbus Avenue. 

“I wished to name the police,” he instructed the community. “He got here in [the shop] with a gun and I used to be afraid he would come again and lure us, so I referred to as 911. And that’s when he noticed me and ran after me.”

Thhe irate gunman blasted Shapiro as soon as within the shoulder and as soon as within the leg out on the road round 9:20 a.m., police stated.

The shooter fled into the 72nd Avenue practice station, the place he crept below an A practice within the tunnel and by some means managed to proceed his escape bid, sources stated. 

The runaway gunman wreaked havoc on some straphangers’ commutes, with many compelled to lie on the subway flooring after which evacuate by means of the subway tunnel. 

A lady who lives above the pc store stated she watched as tensions boiled over between the shooter — who apparently labored remotely — and his employer. 

“They began arguing inside the shop after which proper out right here, sure, in entrance of the shop. After which all the best way right down to the nook,” she stated. 

“He was working remotely, doing a little service for the pc firm,” the neighbor stated. “There apparently was some type of an issue over cash. I can’t bear in mind precisely what he was screaming but it surely was one thing about cash and one thing about being cheated or wronged … It was terrifying.”

Birgilio Rojas, 56, who owns Traviata Pizza subsequent door, stated he noticed the sufferer commonly for “many, a few years.”

“Generally I would like a replica or one thing made and he offers it to me and he comes right here for the slices,” Rojas stated. “[He’s] a pleasant man, , he’s a part of the neighborhood.”

Maya Shatsky, 25, who lives across the nook from the taking pictures scene, stated she was preparing for work when she heard the pictures ring out.

Shatsky stated she and her roommate — who each grew up on the “family-oriented Higher West Aspect” — are troubled by the surprising violence.

“We’re simply shocked,” she stated. “Like one thing like that doesn’t simply occur exterior of our doorstop, possibly in like Instances Sq., someplace like that. However not at 69th and Columbus at 9:30, 9 a.m.”

“We really feel typically very protected, nonetheless,” Shatsky acknowledged. “We love the Higher West Aspect, and I don’t really know the way that occurred and what occurred exterior there. We had been simply shocked.”