{"id":131982,"date":"2026-02-13T00:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131982\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:56:19","slug":"panhandler-shot-to-death-inside-manhattan-7-eleven-killer-on-the-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131982\/","title":{"rendered":"Panhandler shot to death inside Manhattan 7-Eleven, killer on the loose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A beggar who regularly held the door open for change at a Hell\u2019s Kitchen 7-Eleven was fatally shot in the neck inside the store Thursday morning by a rival panhandler now on the loose, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/01\/nypd-ends-2025-with-historic-decreases-in-murders-and-shootings-uptick-in-rapes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:police;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shoppers were perusing the aisles inside the corner chain convenience store at Eighth Ave. and W. 39th St. when a fight over turf broke out inside between the victim and his killer at about 10:30 a.m., cops and witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Workers in stores adjacent to the 7-Eleven said that arguments and fights were common at and around the convenience store \u2014 particularly among a few local homeless men who brawl over who would open the doors for customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cYou see the arguments, the fights out here all the time,\u201d the superintendent of a commercial building near the store told The News. \u201cThere\u2019s always something going on here, all hours of the day and night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cops found the victim, believed to be in his 40s, shot in the neck and dead at the scene. Cops are working to determine his identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A porter in the commercial building next door said the 7-Eleven is a \u201cmagnet for trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cEverybody tends to fight over the door,\u201d he said. \u201cThat door is like territorial\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI opened the door and stepped in, and inside of two seconds I heard an argument,\u201d said one shopper who wished not to be named. \u201cI heard \u2018P\u2014y! P\u2014y!\u2019 and then a bang, and I turned on my heels and walked out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAll these people came filing out after me,\u201d the shopper added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A friend of the victim, whom he knew by the nickname \u201cBeezy,\u201d said the victim often held the door to the 7-Eleven open for change while providing \u201cunofficial security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThat\u2019s my man,\u201d said the 22-year-old pal, who would only identify himself as Huby G. \u201c[He\u2019s a] cool dude. Calm, cool, and collected. I don\u2019t know what altercated this right here, but, yeah, it\u2019s crazy out here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Besides holding the door open, Beezy would \u201chold the store down,\u201d Huby G said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHe\u2019s a security guard. [He\u2019d] stop with the thieves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The gunman, who was wearing a mask, green puffer coat, dark pants and a black backpack, ran out of the store and was last seen heading downtown on Eighth Ave. He has not been caught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A beggar who regularly held the door open for change at a Hell\u2019s Kitchen 7-Eleven was fatally shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[56340,14321,4154,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-131982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-7-eleven","9":"tag-convenience-store","10":"tag-hells-kitchen","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-manhattan-headlines","13":"tag-manhattan-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}