Overview

• An unidentified man entered the New York Deli & Mini Market on Hegeman Avenue just after 3 p.m. Friday, acted erratically and returned moments later to fatally stab 33-year-old worker Diego Sandoval-Nava.
• Sandoval-Nava was rushed to One Brooklyn Health–Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center where he succumbed to multiple stab wounds.
• The suspect remains at large and is described by police as a 5′10″, 190-pound male with braided hair and a dark complexion; no arrests have been made.
• Investigators are examining whether a dispute over loose cigarettes triggered the unprovoked attack inside the East New York shop.
• United Bodegas of America and local leaders are demanding state grants for panic buttons and surveillance cameras after a series of random knife attacks on deli and bodega workers.