The NYPD is searching for a stickup man after an Upper East Side deli worker was shot and killed in a robbery gone bad late Friday night, police said.
Police say they received several frantic 911 calls reporting that a deli worker had been shot on East 81 Street and 3rd Avenue at approximately 11:28 p.m. on March 3. Responding officers from the 19th Precinct found the 67-year-old Daona deli cashier with a gunshot wound to the head. The victim, whose identity is being withheld pending family notification, was pronounced dead at the scene.
“I don’t know why they would shoot him in the head—shoot the gun up in the air or something. You don’t take a life for money,” Jamie, a frequent customer of the corner store told amNewYork metro as he watched detectives comb over the scene of the crime. “He was nice to everyone.”Photo by Dean Moses “I didn’t even put on clothes,” Arthur said, revealing that the cashier had only just returned to work. “He just had back surgery two months ago and was not working these long night shifts. He just came back.”
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