The killer wanted for stabbing a father of three to death at a Brooklyn bodega bought a cup of coffee inside before throwing it in the victim’s face in the fight leading up to the slay, shocking video shows.
Victim Najee Berry, 34, was knifed multiple times in the back and torso behind Mucho Loco Deli Grocery i n Brownsville on Tuesday morning.
“He was too good of a person to die like this,” said the victim’s mother, Claudina Berry. “He never started problems, struggles. He didn’t deserve to die the way he did.”
Surveillance video from inside the deli on Sutter Ave. near Junius St. shows the killer following Berry into the store shortly before 6:30 a.m.
He appears to glare at Berry while Berry is making a purchase. The masked assailant then buys a cup of coffee before following Berry outside, where an argument begins.
Footage outside the store shows the two arguing along Junius St. around the corner from the deli before the stabber hurls the coffee into the victim’s face. The killer appears to hold a knife in his other hand.