CHARGED: Police charged the 34-year-old Brighton Beach resident, on gurney, with murder and other counts
on Jan. 16, the day after he allegedly bludgeoned the restaurant employees with the hammer.
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BY KEVIN DUGGAN
A second man died on Jan. 18
due to injuries he sustained
when a Brighton Beach man
brutally bludgeoned him and
two co-workers with a hammer
inside a Sheepshead Bay
restaurant on Jan. 15, police
said.
The 60-year-old victim,
whom cops did not immediately
identify, died days after
paramedics rushed him to
NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn,
where doctors declared
his colleague — 34-year-old
Sheepshead Bay resident Fufai
Pun — dead shortly after
the incident occurred.
The third victim, a 50-yearold
man, remains in critical
condition, a Police Department
spokesman said.
Cops on Jan. 16 cuffed their
34-year-old suspect — whom
a Police Department spokeswoman
described as emotionally
disturbed — and slapped
him with charges including
murder, two counts of attempted
murder, and criminal
possession of a weapon.
But one of his attemptedmurder
charges will likely be
upgraded to murder following
the latest death, according
to a spokesman for District
Attorney Eric Gonzalez,
who said the suspect has yet
to be arraigned because he is
still hospitalized in a psych
ward.
The suspect allegedly
walked into the Emmons Avenue
Chinese eatery near E. 21st
Street at 5:12 pm, and started
attacking the three employees
with the hammer unprovoked,
the Police Department spokeswoman
said.
Offi cers with the 61st Precinct
took the man into custody
the night of the grisly
attack, and the precinct’s commanding
offi cer days later
praised his staff’s quick response,
promising locals that
they are in safe hands.
“My cops did catch him,
he’s arrested, it’s an isolated
incident,” Deputy Inspector
James King told this newspaper
on Jan. 17. “I really can’t
comment on it further at this
time, because it’s an ongoing
investigation, but I assure you
they are safe.”
A witness to the gruesome
double homicide described the
scene as a bloodbath.
“There was one guy on the
fl oor to the left of the front
door, in a pool of blood,” said
Anthony, who refused to give
his last name.
The bystander said he held
open the restaurant’s door for
cops and paramedics as they
rushed to the back of the eatery
to help another victim.
“There was someone in the
back of the restaurant, EMS
ran to the back,” Anthony
said.
The eyewitness caught the
aftermath of the gruesome incident
while visiting his son,
who works nearby the eatery,
he said.
“I’m just walking past the
restaurant and a bunch of people
are running around like
crazy,” he said.
Slaughtered
in S’Bay
Two dead after bloody hammer
attack at Emmons Ave. eatery
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