{"id":114169,"date":"2025-08-02T23:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T23:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114169\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T23:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T23:20:18","slug":"maniac-was-hell-bent-on-getting-to-beloved-nyc-deli-worker-despite-moms-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114169\/","title":{"rendered":"Maniac was ‘hell-bent’ on getting to beloved NYC deli worker despite mom’s scream"},"content":{"rendered":"

A maniac who stabbed a beloved Brooklyn deli worker<\/a> appeared \u201chell-bent\u201d after an earlier scuffle with the frightened father \u2014 despite his own mother\u2019s screams for him to stop, witnesses said Saturday.<\/p>\n

The fight at the NY Deli & Mini Market Corp. at the corner of Hegeman and Van Siclen avenues in East New York broke out just after 3 p.m. Friday, cops said.<\/p>\n

The worker, Diego Sandoval Nava, was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center where the father of three, including a nerwborn, died, cops said.<\/p>\n

Diego Sandoval-Nava was the bodega worker stabbed at New York Deli and Mini Market at the corner of Hegeman and Van Siclen avenues in East New York just after 3 p.m. Friday. Diego Sandoval-Nava \/ Facebook<\/p>\n

The unhinged knifeman fled the scene and has not been captured, an NYPD spokesman said.<\/p>\n

Ivor Dowridge saw some of the attack when he went into the store to use the ATM and said three workers were trying to hold the berserk attacker back.<\/p>\n

It is unclear what led to the fight. <\/p>\n

The stabbing was preceded by a dispute inside the bodega, cops said. ABC 7<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was hell-bent on going after the guy,\u201d Dowridge, 63, said. \u201cThe victim looks scared. I saw his face, I saw it in his eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The maniac put his hands down and walked out of the store, but returned a short time later with a knife, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was leaving the store, I saw him running back in,\u201d Dowridge said. \u201cI saw him going in his pocket.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis mom was outside shouting at him as he was going back, \u2018What the f\u2013k are you doing? What the hell are you doing?\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t clear what the fight was about but the irate man returned to the deli and appeared \u201chell bent\u201d to get Nava, a witness who knew both men said. Diego Sandoval-Nava \/ Facebook<\/p>\n

Dowridge, a union worker who lives in the area, knows the stabber, who was out of work, has two kids and gets help from his mother, he told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just had to walk away and nothing like this would\u2019ve happened,\u201d he said. \u201cYou stabbed somebody, your life is over.\u201d<\/p>\n

A 45-year-old woman who works nearby said Nava always made her breakfast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nava, who has three children, including a newborn, was rushed to a hospital but couldn\u2019t be saved. Diego Sandoval-Nava \/ Facebook<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you became a regular, he knew what you wanted and you didn\u2019t have to tell him,\u201d the woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was very humble, did not speak much, just did his job \u2013 very nice guy,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking. I bought a candle to put outside the store in his memory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa, who was at the deli, called working at a bodega \u201cthe most dangerous job in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt goes against the grain of what we\u2019ve been told by both Mayor Adams and (Police Commissioner) Jessica Tisch: It\u2019s a perception of crime,\u201d he said. \u201cWell, if you happen to be behind a bodega counter, you know it ain\u2019t no perception. It\u2019s reality every day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A maniac who stabbed a beloved Brooklyn deli worker appeared \u201chell-bent\u201d after an earlier scuffle with the frightened…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,24587,1121,5340,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,8626,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-114169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bodega","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-curtis-sliwa","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-stabbings","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114961738923808505","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}