Police are looking for the perpetrator who shot up a Sunset Park jewelry store while attempting to rob it on Sunday.
discharged a firearm while demanding property from a store employee. Before he could get anything, the suspect fled on foot, southbound on Fifth Avenue toward 49th Street.
The store employee, 22, sustained a graze wound to the torso, according to police. He was taken by EMS to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, in stable condition. In the 72nd Precinct, where Sunday’s incident occurred, reports of robbery are slightly down year-to-date, according toand, as of Jan. 29 – when the most recent figures are available — there was only one other reported shooting in the area year-to-date.
Surveillance footage of the suspect, who appeared to be wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt, gray shorts and a face mask at the time of the heist, is below.
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