The unhinged attacker suspected of fatally stabbing a beloved Brooklyn deli worker after a clash over a “loosie” cigarette has been identified as a repeat offender with two dozen arrests on his record, cops said.
The NYPD identified Oneil Millise, 42, as the person of interest in the Aug. 1 deadly knifing of Diego Sandoval Nava, 33, inside the Deli & Mini Market at Hegeman and Van Siclen avenues in East New York, authorities said.
Millise 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 surveillance footage viewed by the owner of the deli and his brother.
“He came in, he asked for a cigarette,” the store owner’s brother, who did not want to be identified, previously told The Post…