NYC bodega worker fatally shot in broad-daylight attack — over argument about cigars: heartbroken mom
NY Post
A Brooklyn bodega worker was fatally shot in the back of the head Monday afternoon after apparently refusing to give away a free cigar to his killer, cops and the victim’s grieving mother said.
The 37-year-old victim, identified as Nazim Berry, was gunned down outside Amin Deli at 801 Franklin Ave. in Crown Heights, where he worked as a clerk, police and union officials said.
The confrontation began inside the store when the suspect asked Berry for a Black and Mild cigar without paying, the slain worker’s mom, Danette Hollie, told reporters near the crime scene.
Berry “said no and they started to argue,” Hollie, 58, said.
She said she was told the suspect fled the store, but returned shortly after with a gun and got into a scuffle with her son outside the bodega around 4:15 p.m.
“They said that they tussled … and the guy pointed the gun right to the side of his head, the back of his head, he shot him,” she said.
