New York Daily News

Blasted at bodega

- BY ROCCO PARASCANDO­LA, ESHA RAY AND LARRY MCSHANE

The agitated customer strode into a bodega with a tiny dog on a leash — and a foot-long knife in his hand.

Two minutes later, businessma­n Peyman Bahadoran was shot twice by police after threatenin­g two cops and an East Village store worker with the big blade during a bizarre Thursday morning confrontat­ion, cops said. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital with bullet wounds to the arm and torso, and was expected to survive.

Bahadoran, 55, entered the Healthy Green Gourmet with his Jack Russell terrier and the Defender Xtreme hunting knife at about 6:40 a.m., right behind two cops who went inside to grab breakfast. The armed man, a well-to-do businessma­n with a history of mental health issues, demanded a pack of cigarettes from the counterman and threatened him with the knife, police said.

A Taser blast failed to slow his menacing behavior, and he was shot outside the bodega after shoving a cop aside while bolting back outside through the entrance, a video of the incident showed. It was the third police-involved shooting in less than 36 hours, authoritie­s said.

Bahadoran, who lived alone in a Manhattan apartment just a five-minute walk from the bodega, was depressed over his failed marriage and indignant about the Minneapoli­s police killing of George Floyd, according to a source at his ritzy building near Union Square Park.

Bahadoran was holding the knife when he entered the business and threatened the two female police officers, with one of the cops zapping the suspect with a Taser that did nothing to slow him down, police said. After getting his cigarettes, Bahadoran stormed outside and left his dog behind, police said.

The unhinged suspect continued to motion toward his waistband and ignored repeated demands to stop his aggressive behavior once on the street, with two officers then opening fire, according

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