Police are looking for a gunman in a violent supermarket holdup in Brooklyn Sunday evening in which he shoved a gun into a cashier's face and pistol-whipped another as he demanded cash.
The workers at Ideal Food Basket at 830 Lafayette Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant recounted the traumatizing incident exclusively to NBC 4 New York Tuesday.
They said the man walked to the register with chicken patties and he looked at first like he was searching for his wallet.
"He said, 'How much?' I told him how much it was," said one cashier. Then: "He bring the gun in my face and he said, this is a robbery."
The gunman then turned around and began beating another clerk, demanding money, the workers said. Surveillance video shows him apparently pistol-whipping that teen woman working at the register. He got away with $1,600 from the register.
As that was happening, one of the other workers ushered about 20 customers, including two young children, into a meat locker.
"I told all the customers, 'come inside,'" the worker said. "We closed the door shut, completely shut, and the first thing I did was call 911."
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The worker who was pistol-whipped was not seriously hurt but she said she does feel some pain.
The manager said the store has not been robbed in 14 years.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS.
