New York City police are looking for four thugs who beat and stabbed two Taco Bell employees who asked them not to sit on the cashier’s counter.
Police released images of four suspects wanted in the Oct. 16 gang assault on the two Taco Bell workers in Queens.
Authorities contend a group of five attacked the two employees – a 22-year-old man and the other a 21-year-old man – around 9:45 p.m. Police arrested one of the suspects, 25-year-old Erickson Cepeda, for a different gang assault last month in Queens and are now asking for the public’s help to find the others, NBC New York reports.
“Authorities say they beat a 21-year-old man and stabbed a 22-year-old man when they asked them to get off of a cashier counter they were sitting on,” according to the news site. “The 21-year-old had bruising to his face and body and the 22-year-old suffered two stab wounds to his torso. The latter was taken to Jamaica Hospital in serious but stable condition.”
The group fled in a black SUV taxi to Jamaica Ave. and 132nd Street, police told the New York Daily News.
“Police released surveillance photos of the suspects still on the loose Thursday, and are asking the public’s help identifying them,” the Daily News reports. “They are described as two Hispanic men, one Hispanic woman and one black man, all between the ages of 22 and 28.”
According to Pix 11:
The first male individual was last seen in a dark baseball hat, a black hooded sweater, black pants and white sneakers. The second individual was last seen wearing a white baseball hate, a black sweater, a red shirt, black pants and black sneakers. The third male culprit was last seen wearing a black and white baseball cap, a black sweater, black pants and white sneakers.
Police described the female culprit as being 22 to 28 years old. She was last seen wearing a black sweater, blue jeans and black sneakers.
An NYPD spokesman told DNAinfo Cepeda, of Richmond Hill, has a lengthy rap sheet with 11 prior arrests, including one in August for petit larceny and drug possession.
The department is asking anyone with information to call the confidential CrimeStoppers line at (800) 577-TIPS.
“It is unclear why details weren’t released by police until a month after the attack,” DNAinfo reports.
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