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Deli dispute: A SUNY Buffalo football star is in a medically-induced coma after being shot by a stranger outside a Queens deli Monday. Malachi Capers, 20, took a bullet to the stomach after accidentally bumping into the gunman, Jeffrey Thurston, in a cramped aisle of a Lauerlton deli. For the Capers family, it’s a case of déjà vu. The young athlete’s father was shot to death 10 years ago by a stranger in a still-unsolved homicide. “It’s hard for my family because we’re reliving it again,” the football player’s great uncle, Andre Capers, told The News. “This is almost like a flashback for our family.”
Scoot over: Revel shut down its city scooter service indefinitely on Tuesday after two people died in the last few weeks while riding the electric mopeds. “We will work with Revel. We will not allow them to reopen unless we are convinced it can be done safely,” Mayor de Blasio said. The announcement came hours after the death of a 32-year-old man who slammed into a light pole in Queens while driving a Revel moped. A CBS2 reporter was also killed in July while riding as passenger on one of the scooters in Brooklyn.
Shark attack :A former Manhattan fashion executive was killed by a great white shark Monday while swimming with her daughter off the coast of Maine. Julie Ann Dimperio Holowach, 63, was 60 feet from the shoreline near her Bailey Island summer home when the beast attacked. “She had a great career. She had it all,” Holowach’s longtime boss and colleague Karen Murray told The News on Wednesday. Holowach is survived by her daughter, four sons, and husband of 25 years. The great white has vanished in the deep and hasn’t been seen since, Maine authorities said.
Fare-well: The city’s famed yellow cabs are struggling to stay afloat after a long coronavirus lockdown, data released by the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission Wednesday shows. The amount of money yellow cab drivers grossed before expenses in April was down to $54 per day, a decline of 70% from February. Ridership was also down 92% in June, and just one in five of the city’s 13,500 yellow cabs even hit the streets. “If this isn’t a wakeup call for the city and its leaders, then we will know who was responsible for ending this industry and I still wouldn’t say it was COVID,” said Bhairavi Desai, president of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and a medallion owner.