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New York Post
02-08-2025
- New York Post
Maniac was ‘hell-bent' on getting to beloved NYC deli worker despite mom's screams: witness
A maniac who stabbed a beloved Brooklyn deli worker appeared 'hell-bent' after an earlier scuffle with the frightened father — despite his own mother's screams for him to stop, witnesses said Saturday. The fight at the NY Deli & Mini Market Corp. at the corner of Hegeman and Van Siclen avenues in East New York broke out just after 3 p.m. Friday, cops said. The worker, Diego Sandoval Nava, was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center where the father of three, including a nerwborn, died, cops said. The unhinged knifeman fled the scene and has not been captured, an NYPD spokesman said. Ivor Dowridge saw some of the attack when he went into the store to use the ATM and said three workers were trying to hold the berserk attacker back. It is unclear what led to the fight. 'He was hell-bent on going after the guy,' Dowridge, 63, said. 'The victim looks scared. I saw his face, I saw it in his eyes.' The maniac put his hands down and walked out of the store, but returned a short time later with a knife, he said. 'When I was leaving the store, I saw him running back in,' Dowridge said. 'I saw him going in his pocket. 'His mom was outside shouting at him as he was going back, 'What the f–k are you doing? What the hell are you doing?' ' Dowridge, a union worker who lives in the area, knows the stabber, who was out of work, has two kids and gets help from his mother, he told The Post. 'He just had to walk away and nothing like this would've happened,' he said. 'You stabbed somebody, your life is over.' A 45-year-old woman who works nearby said Nava always made her breakfast. 'Once you became a regular, he knew what you wanted and you didn't have to tell him,' the woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said. 4 Diego Sandoval-Nava was the bodega worker stabbed at New York Deli and Mini Market at the corner of Hegeman and Van Siclen avenues in East New York just after 3 p.m. Friday. Diego Sandoval-Nava / Facebook 'He was very humble, did not speak much, just did his job – very nice guy,' she said. 'It's heartbreaking. I bought a candle to put outside the store in his memory.' Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa, who was at the deli, called working at a bodega 'the most dangerous job in the city.' 'It goes against the grain of what we've been told by both Mayor Adams and (Police Commissioner) Jessica Tisch: It's a perception of crime,' he said. 'Well, if you happen to be behind a bodega counter, you know it ain't no perception. It's reality every day.' 4 The stabbing was preceeded by a dispute inside the bodega, cops said. ABC 7 4 It wasn't clear what the fight was about but the irate man returned to the deli and appeared 'hell bent' to get Nava, a witness who knew both men said. Diego Sandoval-Nava / Facebook
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Yahoo
Man, 38, gunned down on Brooklyn street
A 38-year-old man was fatally shot on a Brooklyn street early Friday, police said. Cops responding to a report of a shooting at Pilling St. and Broadway in Bedford Stuyvesant at about 1:20 a.m. found the victim shot in the stomach. EMS rushed the victim to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he died an hour later. Police did not disclose his name as they tracked down his family. The gunman, described as a dark-skinned man with a green jacket, ran off and was last seen running south on Bushwick Ave. Cops searching the area found the suspect's green jacket, along with a gun and one shell casing outside a home on Bushwick Ave. around the corner from the shooting. No arrests have been made. Cops remained at the crime scene Friday morning, looking over a black Jeep Cherokee with several bullet holes. It was not immediately disclosed what sparked the shooting. The killing comes as the city celebrated a 23% drop in shootings for the first three months of the year compared to the same period last year, from 182 incidents down to 140, cops said.
