A 36-year-old man is accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail through the window of a Brooklyn smoke shop.<\/p>\n
Exclusive surveillance video given to News 12 showed someone wearing a mask and a hoodie enter a smoke shop on Fulton Street near Crescent Street in Cypress Hills. Then, through the storefront window, you can see the person reaching back and launching a fireball through the air.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just like, \u2018What, what is that?’\u201d said Syed Salman, a store employee.<\/p>\n
Salman was working the overnight shift on June 25 when he said a Molotov cocktail was thrown in his direction.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just bent down and got up, and I see the Molotov hit the [protective counter] glass,\u201d said Salman.<\/p>\n
According to the federal complaint from the United States District Court in the Eastern District of New York, 36-year-old Yogesh Sayrange threw the \u201cincendiary device,\u201d which was made up of a glass bottle with items including screws, rocks and flammable liquid.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was scared,\u201d said Salman. \u201cI don\u2019t know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Salman told News 12 on Monday that he was able to put out the fire himself, and the device only caused minor damage to the store\u2019s tile floor and the protective shield in front of the register.<\/p>\n
Salman said he believed that it was a random attack, but now he\u2019s taking extra precautions like locking the front door during the overnight shift.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very scared about the people,\u201d said Salman. \u201cWho I know I\u2019m just letting in the store, that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sayrange is also accused of several other recent incidents, which include throwing Molotov cocktails at houses of worship in Queens earlier this month. Those charges are still pending.<\/p>\n
News 12 reached out to his attorney for comment, but has not yet heard back.<\/p>\n
Sayrange is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 36-year-old man is accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail through the window of a Brooklyn smoke shop.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-295109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295109","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=295109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}