The harmless Brooklyn restaurant employee killed by a disgruntled patron who wildly fired off pictures from his automotive early this month “didn’t deserve to die like that,” his spouse informed The Submit Friday – because the NYPD launched photographs of the fleeing suspect’s journey.
Frankley Duran, 36, was making an attempt to shut the gates of Room 1Hundred — a restaurant on Jamaica Avenue close to New Jersey Avenue in East New York — simply after midnight on Dec. 2 when a motorist opened hearth on the eating spot, in keeping with cops and surveillance video obtained by The Submit.
Duran, who was struck within the head, was rushed to Brookdale College Hospital Medical Middle, the place he was initially listed in crucial situation and succumbed to his accidents two days later, authorities mentioned.
“Everything just happened in an instant,” Duran’s spouse, Yesmel Tejeda, 38, informed The Submit Friday.
“The way that happened, he didn’t deserve to die like that, and I’m hoping the police and the communities and everybody finds that person, because this is something that all of us, we’re gonna get through, but with time, with time.”
The shooter had flipped out over an unpaid $280 invoice on the restaurant, Tejeda mentioned.
The enraged man then received into his 2016 Chrysler with New York plate LAL 7188, callously fired towards the eatery he’d simply left and sped off, cops and sources mentioned.
Duran – who sources say had no prison historical past and was not concerned within the preliminary mayhem – collapsed to the bottom because the automotive turned proper onto Marginal Road East, the transient clip reveals.
Tejeda, who had been married to Duran for 2 years and deliberate to start out a household with him subsequent yr, mentioned her husband’s co-worker known as her to inform her what occurred.
“They told me, ‘Oh, something happened to Frankley’…so I’m thinking he was a little drunk,” Tejeda mentioned. “So I was like, ‘Can you put him on the phone right now?’ I was like, so mad. And they told me, ‘Oh, he can’t talk right now.’ I’m like, ‘[What do] you mean he can’t talk right now?’ I think my blood pressure went down.”
“The way that happened, he didn’t deserve to die like that.” Brigitte Stelzer
She mentioned she rushed to the hospital to be by her husband’s facet.
“I know that he knew that I was there,” she mentioned. “I know that he knew that I was there. Yeah. I know that.”
Tejeda mentioned police have described the investigation round her husband’s loss of life as “a complicated case.”
“So they say that they want to have all the evidence together,” she mentioned. “And I’m like, what do you mean? There’s cameras everywhere.”
“So that’s the part I don’t understand,” Tejeda added. “I really want the whole community and people to get connected so they can find [the suspect].”
The couple had deliberate to go to household within the Dominican Republic for the vacations, she mentioned.
“And because of that terrible incident we’re not there,” Tejeda mentioned. “Right now I’m just giving myself some time. Because this — it’s been too much. It has been way too much.”
Tejeda lit up for a second when requested how she met her husband.
“We met in a restaurant,” she recalled. “I used to go buy food every day and I used to mind my own business, and he was there, and he used to see me every day.”
“So one day he approached me, and I was at the cashier, and he told the lady, ‘You know what? I’m gonna pay her bill.’ I’m like, ‘Excuse me?’ And he [said], ‘Yeah,’ and since that day [we were together].”
She described her slain husband as “a good guy, an amazing guy, good husband, a good son, a good brother [and] a good part of the community, a good person.”
The NYPD launched two pictures of the suspect’s getaway journey Friday morning, in a bid for suggestions from the general public.
Anybody with data on the case is requested to name the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
The general public may submit their suggestions by logging onto the Crime Stoppers web site at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on X @NYPDTips.
