Brooklyn grocery store worker and customer shot, wounded, gunman escapes in SUV
A supermarket worker and a customer were shot and wounded in a Brooklyn grocery store, police said Monday.
The victims were inside Awesome Food Corp. at the corner of E. 105th St. and Glenwood Rd. in Canarsie when a gunman drove up.
“She just went in to purchase something and some guy came in and just started shooting,” the wounded customer’s father told the Daily News.
Surveillance video obtained by cops shows the shooter getting out of a blue Nissan Rogue SUV, lingering outside, then stepping inside and firing four times with a .380-caliber handgun about 8:25 p.m. Sunday.
The shooter fled in the SUV he arrived in, which was later found parked and unoccupied on Rose St., a short dead end street less than a mile away. The shooter remains on the loose.
The 23-year-old worker was struck in his left ankle.
The 22-year-old customer was wounded by a bullet that pierced her abdomen before exiting on the other side. Her father, who asked only his first name, Colin, be used, said the gunman was arguing with the worker while his daughter was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“She’s a student,” Colin said of his daughter. “She just completed her bachelor’s degree. She is working on her master’s.”
The father said his daughter underwent surgery at Brookdale University Hospital. Both she and the worker are in stable condition.
“The gun companies need to be held accountable, selling guns to mentally ill people, people who don’t deserve to have them,” the father said.
