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Man Stabbed After Refusing to Hand Over 50 Cents at Crown Heights Deli

 This man is wanted for a stabbing and robbery at a Utica Avenue deli in Crown Heights over the weekend, police said.
This man is wanted for a stabbing and robbery at a Utica Avenue deli in Crown Heights over the weekend, police said.
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CROWN HEIGHTS — Police are looking for a man who stabbed another man who refused to give him 50 cents in a Utica Avenue deli, police said.

The suspect approached a 32-year-old man in the Utica Express Deli at the corner of Sterling Place around 9:40 p.m. Friday and asked him for 50 cents, police said.

When the man refused to hand over the change, the suspect followed him outside the bodega, stabbed him in the torso and took his wallet and cellphone from his pocket. The assailant fled on foot.

The victim was treated at Kings County Hospital for non-life threatening stab wounds, police said.

On Monday, the NYPD released two surveillance images of the suspect and is asking the public for help identifying the man. He is described as about 50 years old, 155 pounds and about 5 feet 10 inches tall.

So far this year, NYPD statistics show assaults and robberies are down in the 77th Precinct where the Utica Avenue incident took place.

There have been six felony assaults in the precinct through Jan. 8 — the most recent data available from the police department — down 60 percent from the 15 assaults in the area in the same time last year. In the same period, robberies dropped 40 percent from five reported incidents in 2016 to three so far in 2017, the statistics show.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS or for Spanish (888) 57-PISTA (74782).