Brooklyn Bodega Clerk Stabs Customer in Gut: Police

One dude’s early-morning deli run turned ugly in western Williamsburg on Thursday, Aug. 6, when an employee at a small street bodega stabbed him in the gut, according to the NYPD.

Police say a man working the counter at 48-N-6th Deli on North 6th Street started arguing with the 23-year-old victim around 3:40 a.m. — then plunged a knife into his stomach, causing multiple lacerations.

But the deli employee apparently left his post after the alleged assault, because police are still hunting for him more than two months later.

The suspected attacker is described as a white male with brown eyes and black hair, standing approximately 5-feet-8-inches tall and weighing around 140 pounds. He was last seen wearing “a white shirt and tan slacks,” police say.

Surveillance photos of the suspect inside 48-N-6th Deli are included above.

(A person who answered the phone at the deli on Monday carried on like he didn’t understand what we were asking, in both English and Spanish, for about five minutes before we gave up.)

Anyone with information regarding the suspect or the crime is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS. Tips can also be submitted online or by texting 274637, then entering TIP577.