Jewelry store worker shot during attempted robbery in Sunset Park
SUNSET PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Police are looking for the gunman who shot a jewelry store worker in an attempted robbery in Brooklyn.
The NYPD says a man entered A&M Jewelry on 5th Avenue and 49th Street in Sunset Park around 1:55 p.m. Sunday and demanded the property inside.
Surveillance video showed him firing the gun, grazing a 24-year-old employee in the torso.
The gunman then fled without taking anything.
Emergency responders brought the victim to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in stable condition.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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