Man shot dead as he chats in store
Brooklyn assassin fires, flees
A gunman walked up behind a 28-year-old deli customer in Brooklyn early Thursday and fatally shot him in the back of the head, police said.
The killer entered 555 Deli & Convenience at Utica Ave. near Montgomery St. in Crown Heights just after 5 a.m. and shot Kadeem Anderson.
Anderson, a reputed Bloods gang member, had been casually chatting with deli workers when he was shot, a police source said.
Medics said Anderson died at the scene. The gunman, who was in his 40s, took off south on Utica Ave.
Anderson’s mom, Angeleta Lewis, surrounded herself with friends and relatives in her grief.
“There’s nothing I can say that’s going to bring him back,” she said through tears.
“All I can say is they need to find him. They need to find the person that killed my son.
“I couldn’t even go in his room. I can’t be in the house. It reminds me of him.”
She said she was at a loss to explain the murder. “Why would he shoot someone walking away from him?” she asked. “I don’t understand.”
Cops have yet to make an arrest.
A family friend was skeptical about Anderson being a gang member, saying she watched him grow up and never saw any signs.
But a police source said Anderson is in the NYPD’s gang database.