Three teens have been arrested for murder for a shooting outside a Washington Heights deli that left one man dead and another wounded, police said Thursday.
The suspects, a 17-year-old whose name was not released because he is a minor, Jason Texeira, 18, and Jeremiah Bascombe, 19, were nabbed Wednesday and each charged with murder, assault and gun possession.
Surveillance video shows workers at the Mexican Culture Deli at W. 160th St. and Amsterdam Ave. seeking cover as gunfire erupts just outside about 12:05 a.m. Oct. 2.
The mortally wounded victim, identified Thursday as Vernard Floranda, was shot in the chest. He staggered off the street, dropping his jacket on the sidewalk, before collapsing inside the bodega, video shows.
Floranda, who lived a block away from the deli, was rushed to Harlem Hospital but could not be saved.
Deli owner Reveriano Flores, 52, said at the time that his wife was working that night and told him what she saw.
“She said they (the gunmen) were in a car,” Flores said. “When (my wife and her co-workers) heard the shots they ran into the back. Then they saw the guy who got shot walk in here.”
“He was shot here,” said Flores, pointing to the center of his chest. “My wife, she didn’t do anything. He got shot. There was nothing she could do. They were panicked.”
Police later learned that Janson Lucian, 25, showed up at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia by private means after being shot in the left ankle during the same incident. Lucian is recovering.
