{"id":117469,"date":"2025-08-04T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117469\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:00:14","slug":"nyc-bodega-killer-went-crazy-when-victim-wouldnt-sell-him-loosie-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117469\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC bodega killer ‘went crazy’ when victim wouldn’t sell him ‘loosie’: witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man who fatally stabbed a beloved Brooklyn bodega worker Saturday \u201cwent crazy\u201d<\/a> because the victim thought he might be a cop and didn\u2019t want to illegally sell him a \u201cloosie,\u2019\u2019 witnesses told The Post.<\/p>\n

The fugitive killer was wearing dark shades and a blue-and-white-striped long-sleeve button-down when he strolled into the East New York store and tossed a dollar on the counter, according to bystanders Sunday and a photo taken moments before the deadly assault.<\/p>\n

The fugitive killer was wearing dark shades and a blue-and-white-striped long-sleeve button-down when he strolled into the store. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post<\/p>\n

\u201cHe came in, he asked for a cigarette,\u201d said the storeowner, who gave his name only as Omar, of the suspect.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the guy working the counter didn\u2019t know him, so he didn\u2019t want to sell him a cigarette. He wanted to be careful. He didn\u2019t want to get a ticket, you know?<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that, the [customer] starts getting mad,\u201d Omar said. \u201cHe starts saying, \u2018What do you think, I\u2019m a cop? I\u2019m not a cop!\u2019\u2026 He was going crazy. He just went crazy, wouldn\u2019t calm down. He wanted to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Selling \u201cloosies,\u201d or individual cigarettes, is a violation in the Big Apple. <\/p>\n

An image of Diego Sandoval Nava. Diego Sandoval-Nava \/ Facebook<\/p>\n

Witnesses said the suspect, who has not been publicly identified, then hurled a credit-card machine at worker and dad-of-three Diego Sandoval Nava, threatened to kill him and stormed outside.<\/p>\n

Nava followed him outside to try to calm him down, witnesses said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDiego came out and said, \u2018What happened? Why are you mad? We gave you want you want,\u2019 \u201d Omar said. \u201cBut the guy keeps saying, \u2018Do I look like the cops? Why do you think I\u2019m a cop?\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n

The two then got into a scuffle, with Nava stabbed and the suspect fleeing the scene. The accused killer is still in the wind.<\/p>\n

Nava followed him outside to try to calm him down, witnesses said. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post<\/p>\n

Nava was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he died.<\/p>\n

The victim\u2019s friends and coworkers said he had worked at the Deli & Mini Market on the corner of Hegeman and Van Siclen avenues for at least six months, taking the bus to the store and making sandwiches.<\/p>\n

\u201cDiego was a great person who always helped out others, and sometimes, when kids didn\u2019t have money to pay for the sandwiches, he paid for them because he trusted that people pay him back,\u201d Nava\u2019s friend, Nasser, 15, said at the deli. \u201cHe was always nice to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nava was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he died. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post<\/p>\n

A group of people at the scene, including several who identified themselves the suspect\u2019s friends and family, maintained Sunday that deli workers spit on the killer and attacked him and that he acted in self-defense.<\/p>\n

According to witnesses after the incident, the accused killer\u2019s own mother screamed<\/a> for her son to stop.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis mom was outside shouting at him as he was going back,\u201d a man said Saturday. \u201d \u2018What the f\u2013k are you doing? What the hell are you doing?\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man who fatally stabbed a beloved Brooklyn bodega worker Saturday \u201cwent crazy\u201d because the victim thought he…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,24587,1121,73478,5416,33241,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,8626,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-117469","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-cigarettes","12":"tag-deaths","13":"tag-fugitives","14":"tag-metro","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nypd","22":"tag-stabbings","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-us-news","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114968974247585994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117469","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=117469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}