An innocent Brooklyn restaurant worker is brain dead after a disgruntled patron opened fire at the eatery early Monday, authorities and police sources said.
The 35-year-old employee was trying to close the gate of Room 1 Hundred – a restaurant on Jamaica Avenue near New Jersey Avenue in East New York – just after midnight when the gunman fired several rounds from the driver’s side of a black sedan. of. According to sources and surveillance video obtained by The Post.
The brief clip shows the seriously injured man – hit in the back of the head – falling to the ground as the car turned right onto Marginal Street East.
He was taken to Brookdale University Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition, police said.
Sources said that this long-serving employee was considered brain-dead on Tuesday.
Sources said the shooter had previously had an argument inside the restaurant over the bill, which eventually turned physical.
According to sources, the fight led to everyone being escorted out of the restaurant – but the angry man continued to behave “disorderly” outside.
Sources said he then sat in his car and opened fire brutally while heading towards the dining venue.
According to sources, three bullets were also fired at an empty parked vehicle and two shells were recovered from the spot.
Sources said the injured employee has no criminal history and was not involved in the initial violence that took place inside.
A clerk at the Marian grocery store across the street, who declined to give his name, said the victim was from a town called Bonao in the Dominican Republic.
The clerk said, his father was supposed to come from there on Tuesday.
“(The victim) comes every day,” the grocery store employee said. “He came to buy his lunch on Sunday. He comes every day. He came in around 5pm (and) that was the last time I saw him alive.”
“He’s a good guy, he’s quiet, he works hard,” she said. “Which is good because now if you talk too much you get in trouble.”
A 35-year-old neighbor, who identified himself as Union 638 Steamfitter Byrne, said conditions in the neighborhood were getting worse.
“I’ve lived here 25 years and it’s never been this bad,” Byrne said. “The crack sales are right here, you can see them on the corner. They are always with guns. And these places stay open until 4:00 am on Saturday nights – you won’t believe what happens here.
“Last month, three people pointed guns at me in my own building,” he said. “This neighborhood is dying fast. I had to buy a car because I can’t go on the metro anymore. “Stabbing in the metro is very common here.”
However, overall felony crime in the precincts of the NYPD’s 75th Precinct, which covers the area, has declined by about 6 percent so far this year.
There has been a slight decline in shooting incidents, with 52 people reported shot in 50 incidents on the campus this year till Sunday, according to the latest available data.
At this time in 2023, 61 people had been shot in 52 incidents within the boundaries of the 75th Precinct.
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