A trip to store ends in bruises and stolen car

It was a snack run they won’t soon forget.

A Brooklyn couple says a man who picked a fight with them in a Brooklyn convenience store has made them leery of even going outside.

The woman told the Daily News that she and her boyfriend were buying goodies inside a Windsor Terrace convenience store Sunday night when a total stranger approached them demanding to know where the liquor was.

They tried to ignore the stranger, but they were the only other customers in the store and he was persistent, she said — raising his fist and getting in her boyfriend’s face.

“Today’s not the day, Bro,” the attacker snarled at the woman’s boyfriend, she said.

“Don’t make me f—k you up in front of your girl.”

Then he threw the first punch, sending the boyfriend stumbling backward, the woman said.

Surveillance video in the store on Fort Hamilton Parkway near Caton Ave. shows that when the attacker approached again, the boyfriend fought back with a flurry of punches as they moved through the aisle, knocking items to the floor.

Moments later, the attacker — his bald head revealed when his hat was knocked off — then went after the girlfriend.

He chased her, she said, and she wound up with a bump on her head and an injury to her ankle, for which she recently underwent surgery. Her boyfriend suffered a black eye.

“It’s scary,” said the girlfriend, a 33-year-old educator. “I’m a [5-foot-3 woman]. What if my boyfriend wasn’t there? It was just random, like I don’t want to go into places right now.”

The encounter ended when the attacker stole the boyfriend’s car key and drove off in his Jeep Cherokee.

The boyfriend, 34, nursing a black eye and still furious about the clash, said the attacker appeared high and “seems like he belongs out of society.”

“It’s just really sad,” he added. “I just feel like with all this crime going on you can’t go to a store anymore.”

The hotheaded suspect has a mustache and goatee and was wearing a hat and jacket. A tattoo appears to cover his left arm.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.