Posted on 05/25/2023 2:43:16 PM PDT by lowbridge
Police believe the soon-to-be grandfather killed by a stray bullet outside his son’s Upper Manhattan deli this week was the innocent victim of a gang-related beef, according to law enforcement sources.
Reda Girgis — who lived in Egypt and was visiting the Big Apple to see his son and pregnant daughter-in-law — was shot dead outside the ChopCheese Deli 2 in Washington Heights around 7:10 p.m. Tuesday, according to cops and the store manager.
Girgis, 66, was struck in the head by a bullet that the drive-by shooter likely intended for a gang rival, the sources said.
The six-block area surrounding the scene, at West 162nd Street and Broadway, has an extensive history of gang violence, according to the sources.
Investigators believe that the errant round came from a dark gray SUV, possibly an Audi with New Jersey plates, the sources said.
Shocking video obtained by The Post Wednesday shows Girgis on the phone outside the deli — next to his pregnant daughter-in-law — when he tumbles to the ground.
A group of teenagers who had been hanging outside the deli are seen scrambling for safety just moments before Girgis falls to the sidewalk — with his son’s wife frantically running into the store a split-second later.
“I heard [a] noise like firecrackers,” deli manager Gamal Abouelezz told The Post on Wednesday. “All of a sudden I saw the man land on the floor.
“The man who died is the father of the owner,” Abouelezz said. “He came from Egypt to visit him three days ago. He was visiting his son and his pregnant daughter-in-law. He was here to celebrate the baby.”
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Gangs of New York?
Here is information about 5,000 illegal trespassers in NY.
Gangs and illegals, brought to you courtesy of the democRATS and DemoKKKrats.
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Impossible.
All those gun laws make it impossible for criminals to get guns.
A bullet? In New York City? That can’t be! Why, that means - gasp - someone has a gasp, gun! The horror!
After all, New York City is a democrat-National Socialist gun-control, utopian paradise, a veritable Worker’s Paradise of Community Bliss…Where no one is allowed to have guns!!!
This must be a Republican right wing extremist lie!!!
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What’s considered ‘elderly’ these days?
Travelling across the world to visit his son and pregnant daughter in law, murdered in the street, likely because some sh*tbucket got ‘looked at wrong’ by some other sh*tbucket.
Anyone still wonder why those with the dough flee demo-marxists cities?
This cannot be true as I am reliably informed NYC has strict gun control laws.
You folks are missing something and that is this: If a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound?
The MSM covers nothing that would hurt the rats. Since most get their news from the MSM does it matter if Hunter Biden is a crook or daddy a pervert? What it means is that we are talking amongst ourselves. Take more than a couple and read:
Well there you go, an innocent bystander. I’m sure the DA will call that a tragic accident with no charges filed.
66 would qualify for most ‘senior discounts’.
Once people realize that proper law enforcement is never coming back, there will be death squads.
RE: visiting from Egypt three days ago.
In the days when Charles Bronson’s Death Wish movie was first run, Japanese tourism fell sharply.
Time Magazine reported that many Japanese considered the movie to be a semi-documentary re-enactment and they didn’t want to risk their lives visiting New York City.
Smart.
Truly sad when people like this or often little children are hit by driveby bullets or street killings.
Old Detroit joke:
In other places if someone hears loud bangs they rush to the window and try to see what’s going on.
In Detroit, everyone immediately just hits the floor.
thanks :)
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