Astoria Deli Worker Hit In The Face With Power Drill

ASTORIA, QUEENS — Police are looking for the man who attacked an Astoria deli worker with a power drill last month.

The man, identified only as Frederico, was inside 41st Street Grocery Store about 7:20 p.m. on June 22 when he started arguing with a worker there, police said.

When the storeowner tried to intervene, the man hit the worker in the face with a Dewalt power drill and ran away, according to police.

The worker lost three teeth and suffered a cut on her mouth, police said. First responders brought her to Mount Sinai Queens for treatment.

The deli is located at 30-05 41st St. in Astoria.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, on Twitter @ NYPDTips.

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