NY Bodega Worker Who Warned About Crime, Slow Police Response Times Was Just Shot Dead Outside His Own Deli
27th April 2026
Wild story right here.
Last year, Abdul Saleh — an employee at Sal’s Deli & Grocery in the East Village — went on local news to sound the alarm. He told ABC 7 that violence in bodegas was rampant, that “always something happens and no one really cares,” and that when people get shot, robbed, or worse, the cops show up three or four hours later.
Now we have this.