Behind crime scene tape outside a New York City smoke shop Saturday lay a cane and a pool of blood, signs left over from a bloody brawl between employees and a man well known on the block.
Police sources said the bloodshed started after a run-in between a man in his 50s and one of the store workers carrying a stack of boxes at Magic 7 Smoke Shop on Fordham Road.
It was just a few minutes after 12 p.m. when the altercation between the two turned physical and the man allegedly took a swing at the worker, police said. A second employee soon entered the fray and tried to subdue the man. Sources said it was that second worker who delivered a fatal blow by stabbing the man in the neck. EMS rushed to victim to Jacobi Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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