Pictured: Kristal Bayron-Nieves, 19, who was shot and killed whereas working at Burger King in Harlem early Sunday morning
A teen woman was gunned down and killed throughout a theft whereas working her shift at a Harlem Burger King – with the killer making off with solely $100.
Kristal Bayron-Nieves, 19, was working as a cashier on the Burger King at 116th Avenue and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem round early Sunday morning when an armed robber entered the restaurant at round 1am.
The gunman pistol-whipped a male buyer earlier than punching a feminine supervisor within the face.
Bayron-Nieves, who simply began the job three weeks in the past, gave the robber $100 money from the drawer, an eyewitness mentioned, in keeping with her mom.
The prison turned to go away, however rotated once more and shot Bayron-Nieves within the torso, in keeping with the New York Publish.
The teenager was transported to close by Metropolitan Hospital, the place she was pronounced useless.
‘She did not should be mowed down whereas working at a Burger King,’ a police supply mentioned.
Her household instructed the Publish that she had already requested extra safety and moved to the day shifts after fearing for her security when leaving work.
‘She is simply 19, and he or she has greater than 50 homeless folks sleeping in entrance of the shop,’ her mom, Kristie Nieves, 36, mentioned in Spanish by way of good friend and translator Nathalie Pagan.
Surveillance photograph of the suspect, proper, needed for killing the 19-year-old cashier whereas robbing the quick meals eatery for simply $100
Pictured: cops examine a deadly taking pictures of a teen working on the Burger King at 116th Avenue and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem
The physique of Kristal Bayron-Nieves is wheeled out of the Burger King early Sunday morning after she was fatally shot within the torso throughout a theft
Her mom went on to say she felt notably torn over her daughter’s loss of life after convincing her to proceed going to work regardless of the teenager’s issues.
‘Kristal mentioned Friday, ‘I do not need to go. I am scared,” Nieves mentioned.
‘I say, ‘You need to go and be accountable.’ At 10 pm I wake her as much as go and inform her, ‘You need to go. You need to be accountable. You need to get a greater life.”
Pagan added that Kristal’s mother ‘feels responsible about that. That is what she tells me earlier, that she feels responsible as a result of she wakes her as much as go.’
The teenager was transported to close by Metropolitan Hospital, the place she was pronounced useless
The robber has but to be recognized or apprehended, in keeping with police as they proceed to research and canvas the crime scene, pictured above
In keeping with household, a younger man, who stopped by to see her on the restaurant to carry her a flower nearly nightly, was there when she was killed.
‘He instructed us he was there till her final breath,’ Pagan mentioned.
‘He tells us when he went and stroll to the place that he all the time purchase her a flower. He went again, and so they open the door to this man that was dressed like them, in all black.’
Bayron-Nieves reportedly mistook the robber for a supply man earlier than he punched the restaurant supervisor and the knocking out the younger man there to see her.
Pagan mentioned the teenager in the end gave the thief all the cash within the register, about $100 in money.
‘So (the younger man) says that the man turns round and he comes again and shot her,’ Pagan mentioned.
‘That he flip round like he’s going to go away, however he comes again and shoots her.’
‘She’d performed all the pieces that he say,’ she mentioned.
‘She give him the cash and all the pieces. That she did not even do nothing mistaken.’
The robber, who has but to be recognized or apprehended, was described as a slim male who was sporting darkish garments and a black masks, in keeping with police.
Authorities have since launched surveillance video footage of the person needed within the teen’s loss of life.
The deadly theft comes as New York Metropolis’s crime fee soars after Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg’s controversial resolution to downgrade housebreaking, armed theft and drug dealing crimes felonies to misdemeanors.
The variety of robberies has since elevated by 19.4 % over the course of the final week.
In the meantime, former NYPD Commissioner Invoice Bratton lashed out at Bragg, claiming the town’s new woke high prosecutor is ‘handcuffing the police’ as authorities seek for Bayron-Nieves killer, whereas blaming George Soros for Bragg’s election.
Present NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell echoed Bratton’s claims, and slammed the brand new coverage as she thought-about it a ‘hazard’ to officers.
Bratton, who mentioned that Soros has ‘successfully destroyed the prison justice system in America,’ known as Bragg’s woke insurance policies of downgrading housebreaking, armed theft and drug dealing from felonies to simply misdemeanors a ‘recipe for catastrophe.’
‘He is well-intended within the sense that he is looking for a strategy to deal with among the problems with the previous,’ Bratton mentioned.
‘You do not deal with the problems of the previous by successfully decriminalizing nearly all the pieces in New York Metropolis.’
Pictured: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg downgraded armed theft and different crimes from felonies to misdemeanors
Sunday’s deadly theft and taking pictures incident comes as crime continues to surge in NYC with a 19.4 % improve in robberies reported
Bratton mentioned newly-elected Mayor Eric Adams has his arms tied when it comes to crime whereas Bragg’s workplace implements its woke insurance policies.
Mayor Adams had promised a return to broken-windows policing after successful on a tough-on-crime strategy marketing campaign.
‘I do not know the way Mr. Adams goes to try this when the DA is successfully handcuffing the police,’ he mentioned.
A number of of New York Metropolis’s borough district attorneys additionally took goal on the soft-on-crime insurance policies laid out this week by Bragg.
In the meantime, Crime Stoppers is providing $3,500 for the killer’s seize as needed posters with a surveillance photograph of the killer might be seen gracing the streets of East Harlem on Sunday.