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Group Attacks Bodega Owner After Threatening to Harm Brother, Police Say

By Lisha Arino | July 10, 2015 5:53pm | Updated on July 12, 2015 10:20pm
 Police said four people attacked the owner of a bodega located at the corner of Madison and Rutgers streets after they threatened to harm his brother, police said.
Police said four people attacked the owner of a bodega located at the corner of Madison and Rutgers streets after they threatened to harm his brother, police said.
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LOWER EAST SIDE — Four people attacked a bodega owner earlier this week after they threatened to harm his brother, police said.

The group — three men and a woman — approached Sam Saeer, 22, at the Madison Grocery Corner, located at Madison and Rutgers streets, at 9:15 p.m. on Tuesday, police and the bodega owner said.

“Where is your brother, because we are going to f—k him up,” they said, according to the NYPD.

Saeer told them to leave but instead they began to attack him, he said. The woman attempted to stab his neck from behind but only scratched it, he said, and two of the men struck him repeatedly in the forearm with a cane and metal rod, according to the NYPD. One of the men also punched him, police said.

The group left when Saeer’s brother, 24-year-old Yaya Saeer, emerged from the basement after another employee told him what was happening, the bodega owner said. The younger brother was taken to Bellevue Hospital for treatment, he and the police said.

Saeer said the woman and one of the men, who was her husband, were kicked out of the store earlier, when his brother caught them trying to steal sodas.

“If my brother was here and he was by himself, they would jump on him and do something crazy on him,” Saeer said. “They did this….[to] me and they weren’t looking for me.”

Police said the woman was 5-foot-9 with short, straight black hair and brown eyes and weighing 210 pounds.

One of the men was 5-foot-10 and weighted 240 pounds, with black hair in a short, close-cut style, police said. The third man was also 5-foot-10 and 190 pounds while the last suspect was 5-foot-9, 190 pounds and had short hair, according to the NYPD.

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