US police brutally murder shopkeeper who was fleeing from armed robbery

Run toward the US police! They will save you! - DO NOT.


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/store-employee-shot-bronx-article-1.1154084

VIDEO: Surveillance camera captures moment that Bronx bodega worker, 20, is fatally shot by NYPD after masked gunmen stick up Morrisania shop

A bodega worker's desperate sprint for his life ended instead with his bloody death on a Bronx sidewalk — cut down by an errant police bullet. Reynaldo Cuevas, 20, was accidentally shot by a veteran cop when the two collided outside the cramped corner store where three masked thugs were bungling an armed robbery, police said.

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(*)“Why would they do this to him?” asked family friend Maricela Rodriguez, 41, as the Cuevas family mourned his stunning death. “He was just an innocent kid.". From left: Suspects Christopher Dorsey,17, Orlando Ramos, 31, and Ernesto Delgado, 28, are escorted out of the 42nd Precinct.

Cuevas, whose uncle owned the store, bolted for safety just behind night manager Felix Mora about 1:50 a.m. Friday in the Aneurys Deli Grocery, according to cops and witnesses.” The scene of a police shooting and hostage situation on Franklin Ave. in the Bronx. Mora, held hostage with Cuevas for 15 minutes, escaped from the bandits unscathed.

But Cuevas barreled headlong into Officer Ramysh Bangali, whose gun discharged a single fatal blast as the two tumbled to the sidewalk, cops said. The entire deadly episode “transpired in a matter of seconds,” said NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly. “And the collision between Mr. Cuevas (and the officer) in split seconds.”

Cuevas was in the store because he had returned after forgetting to grab a bar of Hispano soap from the shelves at the end of his long night shift. The bandits, after snatching $718 in cash held in a Dutch Masters cigar box, filled their knapsack with cigarettes and lottery tickets — only to find their luck had run out, Kelly said.

“Not talking,” said suspect Orlando Ramos, 32, as he left the 42nd Precinct stationhouse in cuffs. Co-defendants Ernesto Delgado, 28, and Christopher Dorsey, 17, said nothing. Two officers were seriously injured after their car was involved in a collision at E. 163 St. and Third Ave. while responding to the scene of a shooting and hostage situation(*) in the Bronx.


Plainclothes officers stage near deli at the scene of a police shooting and hostage situation on Franklin Ave.mAll three were charged with felony murder in Cuevas’ tragic slaying. Delgado had previously worked in a bodega across the street, and Mora said the suspect was casing his store one night before the holdup.

 

I can't see where it was deliberate. Tragic yes, deliberate, I don't think so.

 

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