Overview
- Surveillance footage from outside the Eighth Street Mini Market shows a man and a woman picking up a three‑month‑old kitten named Jabal and walking away on Thursday.
- The Innab family discovered Jabal missing after opening the store, reviewed the video, contacted the NYPD and offered a $500 no‑questions‑asked reward while saying they prefer the kitten’s safe return to pressing charges.
- Local residents have distributed printed flyers, shared the surveillance clips and suspect photos on social platforms, and organized neighborhood searches to try to recover the cat.
- At least one outlet reported an attempted confrontation and a sighting in Prospect Park that ended with the suspects putting Jabal into a bag, but those accounts are based on limited eyewitness reports and have not been fully corroborated.
- Jabal was wearing a collar and was being introduced as the store’s new mascot after the longtime bodega cat Victoria died, and conflicting reports about scheduled microchipping highlight an identification gap that complicates recovery efforts.