Stabbed in a deli
B’klyn vic dies after hanging on 2 months
A 47-year-old Brooklyn deli worker died more than two months after he was stabbed — and now the man charged in the attack could face murder charges, police said Monday.
Aamar Alaahri, a married father of five sons, was stabbed eight times inside the Yasser Deli on Central Ave. near Madison St. in Bushwick on New Year’s Eve, police and his family said.
The attack appears to have been unprovoked, authorities said. Relatives of the victim said police told them the killer had been waiting outside for Alaahri for about 90 minutes and then stabbed him when he appeared in the store’s doorway.
“He just came in and started stabbing him,” said the victim’s daughter-in-law, who declined to give her name. “He was waiting for the person he wants to stab.”
The victim’s widow, who also declined to be named, said her husband was “sweet” and “kind.”
“I want [the suspect] to go to jail and never come out,” she said, speaking at the East
New York home she shared with her late husband.
Alaahri was taken to Brookdale University Hospital in critical condition and died there on March 3 with his family at his side.
The suspect fled in an Acura SUV. On Jan. 3, Pablo Sierra, 44, was arrested for attempted murder, assault and weapons possession.
Sierra, who lives just a few blocks away from the deli, has no previous arrests, sources said. He may face upgraded charges now that the victim has died.
“I don’t remember. I was on my medication, I don’t remember what happened,” he told the Daily News on Monday, adding that he suffers from mental illness.
Last week a Brooklyn Criminal Court judge set Sierra’s bail at $300,000.