Friday, February 28, 2014

Bodega owner found shot dead in back of the head

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Enid Alvarez/New York Daily News


Sergio Bosse, 69, was killed with a shot to the back of the head in his apartment above the bodega he owned, authorities said.



A Brooklyn man was found shot to death early Friday in his apartment above the bodega he owned for two decades, authorities said.


Sergio Bosse, 69, was slain with a bullet to the back of the head, authorities said. His body was discovered after his daughter, who had not heard from him for several days, sent a friend to check on her dad, police said.


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Bosse owned Sergio’s Grocery on Albany Ave. in Crown Heights and lived above the store. Police said no property appeared to be missing from the man’s apartment or the bodega.


Stunned friends said Bosse, who was originally from Haiti, had owned and operated the store for more than 20 years. They said he also owned other stores on the block.


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Adamskie John, 56, and Gregory Bonilla, 45, stood in front of the closed bodega early Friday and wondered aloud how a man they described as old-fashioned and community-oriented could meet such a violent end.


“I was at his store just Tuesday. I’d go there to watch basketball with him,” said John, who said he had known Bosse for 17 years.


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“He was a nice guy. He’d help anybody,” John said. “He wasn’t the type of guy to have enemies.”


“It’s insane,” added Bonilla, 45. “He was a good man … If people came in and were short on change, he’d let them go.”


“He was always at the store. He really took care of the community. He was an old-fashioned kind of guy,” Bonilla added.


Police were investigating the killing.


JSTEPANSKY@nydailynews.com





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