THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) — Surveillance video showed a man opening fire into a bodega filled with customers in the Bronx on Friday.
“He could’ve hit a kid that was buying candy right there,” said bodega worker Jordy Pichardo Burgos.
The shooting happened just before midnight. A 42-year-old customer was wounded, grazed in the head by a bullet. The victim was purchasing some food as he has done for quite some time, according to Pichardo Burgos.
“That person now is traumatized. I just spoke to him, and he is really uncomfortable with the situation. He is a great client and now he has to live with staples in his head,” added Pichardo Burgos.
Pichardo Burgos works with his mother, Yomary Pichardo, in the family-owned business on East 180th Street and Grand Concourse. She said when she heard and saw the shots shatter the front glass door, she thought they were all going die. She immediately threw herself on the floor, called 911 and told everyone to hide. Surveillance video showed them hiding between the shelves in the back and bathroom.