NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — The NYPD released an image Wednesday of a man who allegedly stabbed a Brooklyn deli worker to death after he refused to sell him a loose cigarette earlier this month.
Police have identified the suspect as 42-year-old Oneil Millise.
It happened just after 3 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 1. while 33-year-old Diego Sandoval-Nava, was working at the store located at 684 Hegeman Ave. in East New York.
According to Fernando Mateo, a spokesman for the United Bodegas of America, Millise came in and asked for loose cigarettes and Sandoval-Nava told the man he didn't have any.
Millise left the store only to return moments later then allegedly scaled the counter and repeatedly stabbed the employee in the stomach before fleeing in a black sedan traveling westbound on Hegeman Avenue to parts unknown.
"This man was stabbed multiple times because he didn't want to sell loosies," Mateo said.
EMS transported the victim in critical condition to One Brooklyn Health-Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he later died.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.