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Bodega Owner, Son Fatally Shot In Crown Heights
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Jen Chung
Published Mar 26, 2009
Modified Mar 26, 2009
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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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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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