Bodega Owner, Son Fatally Shot In Crown Heights

Police are searching for suspects who robbed and then killed a bodega owner and his 18-year-old son last night around 9:30 p.m. WABC 7 reports that Mohammed Mansoor Abuzaid, 50, who operated the Utica Deli & Grocery (309 Utica Boulevard), and his 18-year-old son Abdul had tried to fight back but were ultimately "forced...to the basement, robbed" and then shot—the father in the head, the son in the chest. An investigator told the Daily News, "It was a robbery gone bad. They shot them both, emptied the cash register and ran." Another worker was pistol-whipped; police are reviewing surveillance video.

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By Jen Chung in News on March 26, 2009 9:31 AM

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Snoopy

Perp description? Daquan's brother?

whitecastlerock

lmao

Spirit of 76

Glad you two are having a barrel of laughs after two people are murdered.

whitecastlerock

I thought the morality police was off duty when I posted my insensitive reply-whoops. Keep trollin the net lookin for the bad guys k? Thanks!

Snoopy

Don't mind Spirit, he's like that all the time. Plus he picks on the two of us and ignores the other four posters above who have the same observation. If the perp is black then it should be mentioned in the post. Stop with this hiding the facts because it might offend a certain group of people.

GOP

I bet the perpetrator's grandma is 30 years old.

SonnyBobiche

Care to guess the race of . . .

I'm sorry, I meant to say, the underprivileged background of the perpetrators?

Brooklynbobby

As I said, "Boogie Nights"!!!

Tar_Baby

No You Can't.

GOP

Despite my handle, I support Roe v. Wade for this very reason. If this criminal was outted as a fetus, two extra lives would have been saved. As a utilitarian, society would have netted one life (2 minus 1 for those keeping score), and those two lives would have been more valuable than this scumbag.