NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A woman wreaked havoc at a Bronx bodega with a butcher knife, causing over $7,000 in damages, after she was asked to wear a mask in the store, the owner said.
The woman’s rampage at Lizbeth Supermarket on Watson Avenue was captured on surveillance video obtain by the New York Post that shows her slashing her way through the store’s goods.
Store owner Wascar Soto said the woman was simply asked to wear a mask before the tirade began.
“I ask everyone coming in to my bodega to wear a mask,” owner Soto said in a statement. “Some argue, some curse, some want to fight, some simply slam the door and leave, but this person was different. She pulled out a butcher knife and stabbed soda cans, plastic soft drinks, sacks of rice—you name it, she stabbed it.”
Soto said the rampage went on for “some time before a dozen cops arrived.”
Fernando Mateo, of the United Bodegas of America, said when police arrived they “stood by watching this person destroying the bodega.”
“More than a dozen cops responded but they fear using force, they fear any kind of confrontation,” Mateo said.
He said the woman was “arrested and released hours later.”
“How can this happen?” he said. “We are waiting to meet with Commissioner Dermot Shea to figure this out. We need answers.”