Actress Rosario Dawson says she was a longtime common on the Alphabet Metropolis deli the place beloved employee Abdul Saleh was fatally shot.
“So unhappy, tragic and horrible. Abdul labored on the neighborhood deli that I’ve been going to since I used to be a child,” Dawson wrote on social media earlier this week. “He was a really candy and beloved member of the group.”
Saleh, 28, a father of two, was gunned down exterior his household’s Avenue B bodega, Sal’s Deli and Grocery, after a, April 25 scuffle with the alleged killer, who had historical past of stealing and menacing the shop’s staff.
Dawson grew up in a squatter’s den on East thirteenth Avenue, on the identical block because the bodega, the place she was famously found sitting on the stoop by a filmmaker. Her mother and father continued to stay within the constructing after the “Sin Metropolis” actress made it huge.
“To assume Abdul will be seen in information protection, only a 12 months in the past, decrying the violence he in the end fell sufferer whereas petitioning for installments of panic buttons as per the United Bodegas Of America marketing campaign,” Dawson continued.
“Sending my condolences to his daughter, household and associates. Blessings at all times to my LOISADA /Alphabet Metropolis gente.”
Saleh had been working a shift on the family-run retailer when the alleged gunman, Kavone Horton got here in at about 11:30 p.m. The issue patron allegedly opened hearth after an argument spilled out onto the road.
Horton, 28, an alleged gang member, has since been charged with homicide, manslaughter and weapons possession.
