A hazmat suit clad gunman who shot and killed a deli worker on the Upper East Side robbed a Bronx bodega just 30 minutes later, police said.
may be responsible for three other robberies in the last 10 days, law enforcement sources said.
The brazen suspect turned his attention to the worker behind the counter, hitting him in the head with the butt of the gun and walking toward the back of the store, giving the customer a chance to flee, the source added. He threatened to return and kill the workers if anyone called the police, the frightened employees told The Post.The hazmat suit-wearing murder suspect remains at-large as of Saturday afternoon.
The hazmat bandit took “all the money in the cash [register]” as well as “expensive stuff,” Qasem said, pointing behind him to medications such as Advil and NyQuill.The gunman warned, “Don’t call the police… you call the police I’ll come and kill you,” according to Qasem. The gunman remained at-large Saturday, police said. The NYPD could not immediately confirm if there was a second suspect in a hazmat suit.David, a doorman for the building next door to the deli, was “shocked” when he arrived for work and learned of the cold-blooded killing.
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