NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Video released by the NYPD on Tuesday showed a violent fight inside a Brooklyn bodega in which a store employee was sliced by a knife wielding customer.
The incident happened around 8 a.m. on Monday inside the Moon Deli on Atlantic Avenue, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of the borough.
Police say a customer was inside the store when he got into a verbal dispute for a 23-year-old employee, and it quickly escalated into a physical altercation.
Graphic video shows the two brawling inside the store as another person tries to step in and intervene.
Police say the customer, who was wearing a bright orange shirt and black athletic shorts, pulled out a knife during the fight and sliced the 23-year-old employee on the back and neck.
Video shows the second person who was trying to breakup the fight had blood on his arm, but police did not report if he was injured.
The store employee was transported to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition.
The attacker fled the store on foot. He is described as a Black man who is bald and was last seen wearing an orange shirt, black shorts and black clogged sandals.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.
