A teen who had simply began working at a Manhattan Burger King — and already needed off the late shift as a result of she was so scared — was fatally shot within the abdomen over $100 early Sunday, cops and kin mentioned.
The armed robber entered the restaurant at 116th Road and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem round 1 a.m. and pistol-whipped a male buyer earlier than punching a feminine supervisor within the face, police mentioned.
Tragic cashier Kristal Bayron-Nieves, 19, gave the robber money from the drawer, an eyewitness mentioned, in response to her mom. The felony then turned to depart however whipped round once more and shot Bayron-Nieves within the torso, the witness mentioned.
The killer acquired away with simply $100, the sufferer’s household mentioned.
The teenager was taken to Metropolitan Hospital, the place she was pronounced useless a short while later, cops mentioned.
“She didn’t need to be mowed down whereas working at a Burger King,” a police supply mentioned.
Bayron-Nieves’ household mentioned she had solely been working on the fast-food eatery for 3 weeks and had already requested for higher safety and to alter to a day shift as a result of she feared for her security.
The sufferer needed the adjustments “as a result of she is simply 19, and she or he has greater than 50 homeless folks sleeping in entrance of the shop,” her mom, Kristie Nieves, 36, mentioned in Spanish by means of a translator, pal Nathalie Pagan.
Nieves is torn as a result of she satisfied her daughter to proceed going to work.
“[Kristal] say [Friday], ‘I don’t need to go. I’m scared,’ ” the heartbroken mother mentioned. “I say, ‘It's important to go and be accountable.’ At 10 p.m. I wake her as much as go and inform her, ‘It's important to go. It's important to be accountable. It's important to get a greater life.’ “
Pagan mentioned the mother “feels responsible about that. That’s what she tells me earlier, that she feels responsible as a result of she wakes her as much as go.”
Pagan mentioned Bayron-Nieves had a younger admirer who stopped by to see her on the restaurant virtually nightly, all the time bringing her a flower. The younger man was there when she was killed.
“He advised us he was there till her final breath,” Pagan mentioned. “He tells us when he went and stroll to the place that he all the time purchase her a flower. He went again, and so they open the door to this man that was dressed like them, in all black.”
Pagan mentioned Bayron-Nieves mistook the thief for a deliveryman — earlier than he slugged the restaurant supervisor and her younger admirer, knocking him out.
She mentioned Bayron-Nieves then gave the thief all the cash within the register, which amounted to $100 in money, the everyday quantity to begin the subsequent day.
" class="wp-image-20769791"/>“So [the admirer] says that the man turns round and he comes again and shot her,” Pagan mentioned. “That he flip round like he's going to depart, however he comes again and shoots her.
“She’d finished every little thing that he say,” she mentioned. “She give him the cash and every little thing. That she didn’t even do nothing mistaken.”
The robber, who fled the shop, was described as a slim male who was sporting darkish garments and a black masks, cops mentioned. Police had been canvassing the scene for video.
At an unrelated press convention Sunday afternoon, Mayor Eric Adams decried the taking pictures and mentioned he would “proceed to workers up with the suitable workforce to cope with the gun violence in our metropolis.
“This is just not solely skilled, it’s private,” he mentioned of his battle to fight gun crime. “That household is traumatized, and I’m going to succeed in out and provides them the help that’s wanted.
“The police commissioner and I've mentioned over and over, that’s the prerequisite of our prosperity, public security and justice,” Adams mentioned.
Group activist and up to date metropolis public advocate candidate Tony Herbert slammed newly elected Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, saying the brand new prosecutor’s soft-on-crime stance solely fuels such heinous acts.
Bragg has instituted new insurance policies that can spare most crooks prosecution and jail time.
He “has blood on is arms” and runs his workplace “from an ivory tower,” Herbert mentioned of Bragg at a press convention on the scene.
“We on the streets know what’s occurring,” Herbert mentioned. “Simply since you come from right here don’t imply you already know the place you come from. A number of these electeds don’t get it.”
He conceded that Bragg lives simply blocks from the eatery however maintained he “stays on the West Aspect.
“That’s not good, Alvin. Come over right here and let’s work collectively and save these lives.”
Richard Fife, a rep for Bragg, responded, “Our coronary heart goes out to the household and associates of the sufferer and pray for all those that have been touched by this horrible tragedy.
“DA Alvin Bragg is targeted on bringing the killer to justice.”
Crime Stoppers supplied a $3,500 reward for the killer’s seize, placing up needed posters with a surveillance photograph of the killer.
Extra reporting by Reuven Fenton
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