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Police Link UWS Store Worker's Killing to Armed Robbery in Harlem

By Emily Frost | June 29, 2015 10:44am
 Police are still building their case against the three men who killed Bubacarr Camera. 
Gambian Immigrant Killed in Robbery Shot in Head
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UPPER WEST SIDE — The suspects who killed a store worker during a robbery gone wrong are also wanted for an armed raid in Harlem, police said.

Police initially believed Bubacarr Camera, 26, was beaten to death by three men who were trying to rob his father's shop at Amsterdam Avenue and West 104th Street on June 19.

The Medical Examiner later determined that Camera was actually shot in the back of the head with a .38-caliber gun, according to 24th Precinct Capt. Marlon Larin.

Two of the three men are also wanted for a robbery in Central Harlem that had occurred  three days earlier, he said. 

In that incident, the suspects entered an African shop at West 133rd Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard at 12:30 a.m. and demanded money, police said. A shot was fired, but no one was injured, Larin said.

Before they robbed the T-shirt store owned by Camera's father, the three men disabled the cameras inside, he added. Police did obtain footage from outside the store.

"They walked in very quietly and calmly, but they left in a brisk manner," Larin explained. 

Police believe the men killed Camera about 12:30 p.m. and left him on the floor of the store. The victim wasn't found until 2 p.m, he added.

Anyone with information in regards to either crime is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS.

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