Manhunt Underway For Killer 71-year old Jew
The hunt is on for a cold-blooded killer who gunned down a jewelry store clerk in Manhattan on Wednesday, causing mayhem on Madison Avenue.
The R.S. Durant Jewelry Store on Madison Ave. at 75th Street was closed Thursday, still a crime scene.
The R.S. Durant Jewelry Store on Madison Ave. at 75th Street was closed Thursday, still a crime scene.
Fatally shot Wednesday was 71-year old Henry Menahem of Long Branch. Police are looking for a well-disguised gunman who came into the store tossed two canvas bags at the Menahem and a second employee and ordered they be filled with jewelry.
With both men apparently refusing to do so, the robber, holding a 9 mm handgun, popped the magazine out, displaying the clip and the gun.
He told the employee, "You think I'm kidding? This is real." The clip was put back into the gun and he fired one shot at Menahem's chest, and again told the 49 year-old co-worker to fill the bags.
Police quote that worker as saying, "I want to call 911 for an ambulance first." The reply from the gunman: "No."
The worker said he then knocked over a display case, and filled the two bags with jewelry said to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and walked out.
The gunman, wearing a black wool cap, sunglasses, and a scarf over his face, had a dark, three-quarters length coat and gray slacks. It's believed he fled southbound on Madison.
Madison Avenue, from 57th Street to 86th Street has roughly 55 jewelers and watch stores whose workers, some reluctant to speak, say the shooting has left them worried.
"It's scary. It's very scary," said Jacqueline Leonardo, a clerk for a nearby jeweler that doesn't have a buzzer on the door – which makes her even more scared because police said the gunman was able to enter R.S. Durant because their door buzzer wasn't working.
Raphael Azzi, who works in the same shop as Leonardo, said they have plans to purchase a new buzzer, but that didn't make him feel any safer.
"We're gonna put it in, but I don't think it's gonna help," he told CBS 2.
Police said because his face was mostly concealed and he wearing gloves, locating the killer may be very difficult. Detectives have been examining surveillance video from the area, hoping it will help in identifying the gunman.
With both men apparently refusing to do so, the robber, holding a 9 mm handgun, popped the magazine out, displaying the clip and the gun.
He told the employee, "You think I'm kidding? This is real." The clip was put back into the gun and he fired one shot at Menahem's chest, and again told the 49 year-old co-worker to fill the bags.
Police quote that worker as saying, "I want to call 911 for an ambulance first." The reply from the gunman: "No."
The worker said he then knocked over a display case, and filled the two bags with jewelry said to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and walked out.
The gunman, wearing a black wool cap, sunglasses, and a scarf over his face, had a dark, three-quarters length coat and gray slacks. It's believed he fled southbound on Madison.
Madison Avenue, from 57th Street to 86th Street has roughly 55 jewelers and watch stores whose workers, some reluctant to speak, say the shooting has left them worried.
"It's scary. It's very scary," said Jacqueline Leonardo, a clerk for a nearby jeweler that doesn't have a buzzer on the door – which makes her even more scared because police said the gunman was able to enter R.S. Durant because their door buzzer wasn't working.
Raphael Azzi, who works in the same shop as Leonardo, said they have plans to purchase a new buzzer, but that didn't make him feel any safer.
"We're gonna put it in, but I don't think it's gonna help," he told CBS 2.
Police said because his face was mostly concealed and he wearing gloves, locating the killer may be very difficult. Detectives have been examining surveillance video from the area, hoping it will help in identifying the gunman.
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