A Brooklyn bodega worker was killed Friday afternoon by an irate customer who stabbed him multiple times, police said.
Diego Sandoval-Nava, 33, was working at a deli and mini market on Hegeman Ave. in East New York when a man came into the store around 3 p.m. and caused a disturbance, police said.
Workers at the bodega asked the man to leave, and he did. But he returned soon after and stabbed Sandoval-Nava several times in the torso when the victim tried to prevent him from coming behind the counter, a police source said.
After stabbing Sandoval-Nava, the attacker ran off.
Medics rushed Sandoval-Nava to Brookdale Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.
So far, there have been no arrests as police continue to look for the attacker, cops said.
In May, Mayor Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced the city would install panic buttons linked to the NYPD in about 500 bodegas across the five boroughs. The new initiative came after a string of killings in bodegas, including two slayings in 48 hours in April. It was not immediately clear if the bodega where Sandoval-Nava worked has received a panic button.
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