Crime & Safety

Bed-Stuy Deli Held Up At Gunpoint: NYPD

A Stuyvesant Avenue deli worker was injured as a masked man with a gun demanded money Tuesday morning, police said.

The store was robbed at about 9:30 a.m., police said.
The store was robbed at about 9:30 a.m., police said. (Peter Senzamici/Patch)

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — A gunman robbed a deli on Stuyvesant Avenue early Tuesday morning, according to police officials.

At about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, a masked man entered a deli at 137 Stuyvesant Ave. with a gun and demanded money from a store worker, police told Patch.

The man made off with an unknown amount of cash from the register and fled the scene on foot, officials said, adding that the suspect is still at large.

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A store worker suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene by EMS workers, police said.

The suspect was described as wearing all black, a black mask and about five foot, eight inches tall, police said.

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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).

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