A pair of helmet-wearing menaces had been charged with tried homicide for allegedly taking pictures a Queens cellphone retailer employee and snatching his $22,000 Rolex throughout a stickup final fall, police mentioned.
Elier Sanchez, 23, and Danilxon Alvarez, 34 — each believed to be migrants hailing from Venezuela — had been nabbed individually over the previous three weeks in connection to the violent November caper focusing on a 40-year-old man working at an Astoria cellphone retailer, cops and sources mentioned Wednesday evening.
Sanchez was individually nabbed for shoplifting on Jan. 3 after which linked to the stick-up on Wednesday, whereas he was nonetheless in custody, police mentioned.
Alvarez was busted by US Marshals in New Jersey after he barricaded himself in a constructing on Jan. 29, authorities mentioned.
The robbers acquired tangled in a bodily combat with the employee simply earlier than 7 p.m. on Nov. 8 on the Prime in City Wi-fi retailer on Steinway Road close to thirty fourth Avenue in Astoria, based on the NYPD.
In the course of the dust-up, one of many thieves fired a number of rounds on the sufferer, hitting him in each legs and his torso, cops mentioned.
They then snatched the sufferer’s jaw-droppingly expensive watch earlier than fleeing the scene on a scooter, officers mentioned.
The sufferer was taken to the Elmhurst Hospital Heart, the place he was listed in secure situation, cops mentioned.
Footage launched of the suspects the day after the assault exhibits one of many males carrying a grey helmet with a black jacket and blue denims.
The opposite was carrying a black helmet and a crimson masks with a blue hooded sweatshirt and crimson and black sneakers.
Each males had been additionally charged with first-degree theft and second-degree felony possession of a weapon, cops mentioned.
They every have pleaded not responsible and had been ordered held with out bail throughout their arraignments, data present.
