The teenage Burger King cashier fatally gunned down throughout a late-night theft at her Harlem eatery was remembered at her wake Tuesday as a “real soul.”
Kristal Bayron-Nieves, 19, was senselessly shot and killed Jan. 9 throughout a botched theft, simply weeks after she took the job to purchase a automotive and assist her mother pay the payments.
“We’re devastated,” her cousin, Melissa Quiles, informed The Publish.
“She didn’t deserve this in any respect,” Quiles stated. “We simply need justice.”
The slain teen’s pal, 16-year-old Nairelys Figueroa, stated Bayron-Nieves was a tough employee — but in addition happy-go-lucky.
“She was a really glad, real soul,” Figueroa stated. “She was all the time glad and wished to vary for the higher. … She wished to journey the world.”
Bayron-Nieves was simply three weeks into the nightshift on the fast-food eatery when police stated Winston Glynn, a 30-year-old former worker on the restaurant, stormed in round 1 a.m., demanded cash and shot the teenager earlier than fleeing.
Cops stated there have been simply $100 within the money register.
The teenager’s mother stated her daughter, frightened about security within the neighborhood at night time, had sought to change to an earlier shift.
“She was saving to purchase a automotive that Friday,” household pal Natalie Pagan stated of the sufferer, who was killed days earlier than she might buy the car. “However long term, she was saving cash for college.”
Bayron-Nieves’ physique will likely be flown to her native Puerto Rico on Thursday for a funeral scheduled for Friday, her household stated. She will likely be buried Saturday.
Jet Blue will transport the physique and kinfolk at no expense.
A gofundme.com web page has thus far raised practically $43,000 for the household.
Post a Comment