31-year-old Jesus Acosta<\/a>, who they say shot and killed a restaurant worker in Brownsville early Sunday and a bodega customer in the Bronx on Tuesday.<\/p>\nThe restaurant, American Best Wings & Pizza, was closed Thursday, with gates covering the storefront. A sign outside honors the life of Md Yousof, who worked behind the counter.<\/p>\n
Police said a gunman entered the restaurant shortly after midnight Sunday and shot Yousof in the head. The restaurant’s owner said the suspect also stole the week’s sales.<\/p>\n
Shekh Rasel, a co-owner of the restaurant and a friend of Yousof, said he was stunned by the killing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was shocked speechless,\u201d Rasel said.<\/p>\n
Rasel described Yousof as a well-liked employee who had built relationships with customers.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s a very kind person, very warm hearted, very welcoming, almost every single customer likes him,\u201d Rasel said.<\/p>\n
Rasel said Yousof was the sole provider for his family in Bangladesh, including his wife, two daughters and parents.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo daughter and wife and also dad and mom back home, so because he’s the only sole provider, I don’t know how they will survive afterwards. We try to help them from our end,\u201d Rasel said.<\/p>\n
The restaurant has started a fundraising campaign to help Yousof’s family and pay to return his body to Bangladesh.<\/p>\n
Police said Acosta is also accused of a robbery and shooting at a Bronx bodega Tuesday. Investigators said he shot customer Trayvon Shuler in the chest before emptying the cash register. Shuler died from his injuries.<\/p>\n
The shootings have left some residents in Brownsville and the Bronx concerned that the suspect remains at large.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel so frustrated and so disgusted. They have advanced technology almost everywhere. They should have [caught] the guy that very day,\u201d one resident said.<\/p>\n
The United Bodegas of America is also offering an additional $10,000 reward for information leading to Acosta\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about Acosta’s whereabouts is asked to contact the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FBI is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a man accused of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[10015,387,25,128,98,303,9,24,12,63,1174,308,129,131,130,27,200],"class_list":["post-333440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-crime","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-brooklyn","tag-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-olivia-leach","tag-public-safety","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333440","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=333440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}