Brooklyn Bodega Worker Fatally Stabbed In Argument Over Cigarettes

EAST NEW YORK, NY — A Brooklyn deli worker is dead after he was stabbed multiple times in an unprovoked attack over cigarettes, according to authorities and a report.

According to New York City police, officers were called to a bodega located at 684 Hegeman Ave. in East New York around 3 p.m. Friday. When officers arrived, they found 33-year-old Diego Sandoval Nava suffering from multiple stab wounds to his stomach.

Sandoval Nava was taken to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, where he later died, police said.

According to an ABC7 report, when the suspect first entered the store, he was screaming and acting erratically. After leaving the store, he returned and attempted to get behind the counter where the cigarettes were stocked.

Sandoval Nava was stabbed when he confronted the suspect, ABC7 reported.

"How could someone take someone's life over loosies, over cigarettes?" Fernando Mateo of United Bodegas of America told ABC7. "We don't understand how you can take someone's life, a young man's life, over cigarettes."

Police said no arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing.