A callous shoplifter brutally stabbed a Bronx gasoline station worker – leaving him clinging to life – when the employee tried to cease the thief over the weekend, cops mentioned.
The unidentified intruder was making an attempt to steal from the BP station store on Westchester Sq. close to East Tremont Avenue round 1 a.m. Sunday when the employee, a 25-year-old man, stepped in to cease him, police mentioned.
The enraged man then pulled out a knife and stabbed the worker in his neck, arm and head, authorities mentioned.
He was rushed to Jacobi Medical Heart, the place he remained in essential situation Monday, cops mentioned.
It’s unclear what merchandise the violent criminal managed to pocket earlier than fleeing the scene.
A surveillance video and picture launched by the NYPD reveals the balding suspect, believed to be about 50 years previous and 180 kilos, standing on the counter.
He wore a grey hoodie bearing the phrases “New York” and the quantity 35 – in addition to black pants and burgundy sneakers.
He had not been caught by late Monday afternoon.
United Bodegas of America is providing a $2,000 reward for data resulting in the arrest and conviction of the suspect – noting that the heinous assault got here solely 10 days after a 29-year-old mom was stabbed to dying throughout a broad-daylight feud inside a deli in the identical borough.
Gwendolyn Guyton was inside Jose Mini Market Inc. on Southern Boulevard close to East 149th Road round 3:15 p.m. Oct. 3 when an assailant stormed in, fought along with her after which plunged a knife in her neck and torso a number of occasions, in accordance with cops and witnesses.
Her feminine killer fled the shop on a white bike and has but to be caught, police mentioned.
Fernando Mateo, spokesman for the bodega staff’ group, condemned the latest assaults, lamenting that “bodegas are beneath siege, and our communities are struggling.”
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“Ms. Guyton’s dying and this latest stabbing are half of a bigger disaster, and we should act now to cease this violence,” Mateo mentioned. “Bodegas have to be protected havens for everybody, and we name on elected officers to step up and assist our mission to create safer neighborhoods.”
Felony assaults throughout the NYPD’s forty ninth Precinct, which covers the realm of the gasoline station assault, have risen by about 16.5% in comparison with the identical interval in 2023, in accordance with the most recent information. In the meantime, robberies are down by about 13% within the precinct’s confines.
Anybody with data on the violent crime is requested to name the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
The general public also can submit their ideas by logging onto the Crime Stoppers web site at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on X @NYPDTips.
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