{"id":141524,"date":"2026-02-22T04:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141524\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T04:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:11:08","slug":"cops-release-photos-of-suspect-in-fatal-shooting-of-panhandler-in-manhattan-7-eleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141524\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops release photos of suspect in fatal shooting of panhandler in Manhattan 7-Eleven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cops have released photos of a suspect wanted for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/12\/man-shot-to-death-inside-manhattan-7-eleven-killer-on-the-loose\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gunning down a panhandler inside a Manhattan 7-Eleven<\/a> last week, in hopes someone recognizes him.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect shot 43-year-old Mark Jackson in the neck inside the convenience store on Feb. 12, then fled into the 50th St. subway station and onto a northbound C train, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The man the NYPD is looking for wore a dark-colored sweater with white lettering on the front, multicolored pants, gray sneakers, a black backpack and a blue medical mask.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson, who was homeless, regularly held the door open for change at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/07\/sheet-metal-debris-fall-con-ed-rooftop-manhattan-amid-high-winds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hell\u2019s Kitchen<\/a> store at Eighth Ave. and W. 39th St., but got into a fight over the coveted turf with the gunman around 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The suspect, above, and the victim reportedly argued over who would get to hold open the store's door for change. (NYPD)\" width=\"391\" height=\"266\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7-Eleven-Homicide-MTS-Pct-02.12.26-photo-1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8715561\" \/>The suspect, above, and the victim reportedly argued over who would get to hold open the store&#8217;s door for change. (NYPD)<\/p>\n<p>A friend of the victim, who knew him by the nickname \u201cBeezy,\u201d said, as well as holding the place\u2019s door open for change, the slain man provided \u201cunofficial security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\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>Workers in stores next to the 7-Eleven said arguments and fights were common at and around the convenience store \u2014 particularly among a few local homeless men who brawl over who gets to open the door for customers.<\/p>\n<p>\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>A porter in the commercial building next door said the 7-Eleven is a \u201cmagnet for trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody tends to fight over the door,\u201d he said. \u201cThat door is like territorial\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers\u00a0<\/a>at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops have released photos of a suspect wanted for gunning down a panhandler inside a Manhattan 7-Eleven last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-141524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-city","9":"tag-county","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-manhattan-headlines","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141524","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=141524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}