NYC: an Ecuadorian immigrant was shot dead outside a Bushwick gas station

An Ecuadorian immigrant was shot dead during a robbery turned deadly outside a Bushwick gas station.

 

Javier Sanchez, 33, was on his way home when he was surrounded by a group of men who shot him in the head.

“He was coming home … He went to a party and dance and hang out.”

At least three men confronted Sanchez in the parking lot of the BP service station on Myrtle Ave. by Irving Ave.

Footage from inside the gas station convenience store appears to show one of the men in the group grab a case of Modelo beer before meeting with a friend inside. They go to pay for their booze and just two minutes before the confrontation, one of the men appears to urinate right outside the station.

“Lots of robberies here. They’re men from the neighborhood so they just drink around the area,” said Waquir Mazhar, who manages the BP gas station. “That’s why we had to install bulletproof glass. I think it was last year after we got robbed.

Police data shows nine robberies within a one-block radius of the gas station during the first eight months of this year, including one stickup of the service station on March 8.

Overall robberies are up by nearly 8% in the 83rd Precinct, with 223 as of Aug. 27 compared to 207 in the same time period last year.

Neighbors have described the corner as a magnet for drinking and fights after the sun goes down.

Sanchez came to the U.S. 13 months ago from Ambato, Ecuador where his 4-year-old daughter and her mother still live, according to his cousin Paul Euza.

Erika Carillo, 27, who rents a room in the same apartment as Sanchez, said the victim sent money back to his family so they could care for his girl.

[Wait a second: They just called him an “immigrant”.]

As of Monday afternoon, police had made no arrests.I’m