HELL’S KITCHEN — Two fired former employee attacked the manager of a Hell’s Kitchen grocery-delivery service, leaving him with a broken noise, cuts and bruises as a third suspect looked on laughing, police said.
The 24-year-old victim, from Staten Island, was sitting at a desk inside delivery chain GoPuff's site at 410 W. 47th St. around 8:50 p.m. on March 7 when the two ex-employees walked in with a third man the manager didn’t know, he told police.
As one of the former employees held the manager down in his chair, the other punched him in the face repeatedly, police said.
The third man kept watch at the door and laughed as the ex-staffers attacked the manager, the victim told police.
At some point during the incident, the manager escaped and ran to the bathroom, locking himself inside, police said.
The employee who punched the manager banged on the door, but eventually left with the other two suspects and fled in an unknown direction, the NYPD said.
The manager was left with a broken nose, cuts and swelling on his left cheek, a cut on his left eye and a bruise below his left eye, police said.
A second manager working at the GoPuff site on Tuesday confirmed the attack, but said he wasn’t sure what motivated it.
“They worked here, they got fired,” said Akaon, 29, who declined to give his last name. “Many months later, they came back.”
He said the men also stole a Samsung tablet from the manager’s desk before they fled the store, although police did not provide information regarding a theft.
Police are searching for a 24-year-old man from Queens, a 25-year-old man from an unknown location and a third man, they said.
The manager who was attacked was not available for comment on Tuesday.
