Bx. grocery beating
5 women attack cashier
A Bronx grocery store cashier was repeatedly pummeled by a deranged woman and her grown daughters in a shocking caught-on-video assault, The Post has learned.
Lisbel Rodriguez Luna, 25, was left bruised and battered and scared for her life in the Sunday attack at Food Universe in Fordham Manor.
“No one ever attacked me like that,” Luna said Monday, adding she’s terrified to go back to work because her attackers are still on the loose. But “I have to work. I need my job. I don’t know what else I can do.”
Surveillance footage obtained by The Post shows several women storming in and beating Luna at her register, as store employees try desperately to pull the attackers away.
Luna, who was still recovering at home, explained she first encountered the main assailant the week prior when she called her out for skipping the line to turn in a ticket for cash in return for recyclables.
“There were two other women in line and she came around and handed me the ticket and I asked her, I said, ‘Miss, is it your turn? Did she give you her turn,’ I asked pointing to the woman who was waiting in line,” Luna recalled.
“She said, ‘Bitch, that’s not your business! You better just give me my money!’ ” Luna told The Post. “‘I’m going to kick your ass. I’m going to f--king kill you. I’m going to bring my daughters and we’re all going to kick your ass!’
“I took her ticket and gave her her money, about $15,” she said.
Store manager José Minaya said he intercepted the irate woman outside the store when she returned Sunday. He took Luna to a deli counter in the back of the bodega to hide out until the belligerent customer left.
“But the woman waited outside,” Minaya said. “It was three daughters and another older woman, so there were five of them all together.”
The women “met up outside” and then “came in and just immediately attacked,” he said.
Cops were called to the store at around 1:15 p.m., an NYPD spokesperson said. The victim, who was punched multiple times, declined medical attention.
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