NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A reward being offered in exchange for the arrest of the suspect who gunned down a 19-year-old woman while she worked at an East Harlem Burger King last weekend has reached $20,000 as of Wednesday.
The NYPD is offering a reward of $10,000 with up to $3,500 payable by CrimeStoppers upon the suspect's arrest and indictment and another $6,500 payable by the NYPD upon their arrest and conviction for Kristal Bayron-Nieves' killing.
Billionaire mogul John Catsimatidis is also offering a separate $10,000 reward after the cashier was fatally shot during an armed robbery inside the restaurant near Lexington Avenue and East 116th Street early Sunday.
Catsimatidis, a radio host and businessman who most notably owns the Gristedes supermarket chain, placed an ad in Wednesday's print edition of the New York Post about the reward.
The ad reads, "John Catsimatidis offers a $10,000 reward for the arrest & conviction of the killer of 19-year-old Burger King cashier Kristal Bayron Nieves."
Police said the assailant also punched a female manager in the face and pistol-whipped a male customer during the incident.
Video released by the department soon after showed him wearing a black mask, all black clothing, and pointing his gun toward employees.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the
NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
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