A teenage worker and his boss were shot dead after a robbery turned into a shooting rampage at a Brooklyn tire shop yesterday, cops said.
The owner’s 17-year-old son was seriously injured when a lone gunman entered Gary’s Tire Store, on East 96th Street, in East Flatbush, at about 5:15 p.m. and stuck up the family-run business.
The teen employee was killed outside the store when he was shot in the head. He also had a bullet wound in his right hand, which police believe he’d put up in self-defense. His name was withheld.
His boss, whom sources identified as Gary Turner, was fatally shot in the chest as he stood inside the store, police said.
Turner’s son, Donald, was helping his dad, the sources said. He was taken to Kings County Hospital with gunshot wounds in the leg and arm.
His hysterical mom was seen walking into the hospital crying, “My son was shot! My son was shot!”
Dannie Martindale, 55, had just arrived home from work when she heard the shots ring out.
“It was very scary. I heard the sirens and the helicopters overhead,” Martindale said.
She added, “Gun shots are nothing new around here.”
Local residents said the slain teen always helped out in the neighborhood.
“If I was carrying a lot of bags, he would help me to the train station by taking a couple of bags,” said a man who asked not to be identified.
Police described the gunman as a black man, about 6 foot 1 inches tall, who was wearing a bubble jacket.
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