A Brooklyn bodega clerk was tragically shot in the back of the head on Monday afternoon after allegedly refusing to offer his attacker a free cigar, according to detectives and the victim’s devastated mother.
The man was identified as Nazim Berry, a 37-year-old worker at Amin Deli, 801 Franklin Ave., Crown Heights.
According to Danette Hollie, the mother of the deceased employee, the altercation started inside the store when the suspect asked Berry for a Black & Mild cigar without paying.
Hollie, 58, said that Berry “said no and they started to argue.” She added that she was informed that the suspect had left the business, but that he came back shortly after brandishing a pistol and fighting with her son outside the bodega around 4:15 p.m.
“They said that they tussled … and the guy pointed the gun right to the side of his head, the back of his head, he shot him.”
Berry was taken to Kings County Hospital Center and later declared dead, according to the authorities. One individual, according to police, escaped the scene of the cold-blooded murder on foot. There have been no arrests.
A bodega workers’ union declared that it would pay $10,000 for any information that resulted in an arrest in the case.
