An EVG reader shared these photos this evening... the front windows at Hub Thai on Avenue A were hit during the early morning shootout on Avenue A between Sixth Street and Seventh Street.
The restaurant is adjacent to the Hayaty Hookah Bar at 103 Avenue A, where a fight between Earl Facey and Richard Reid started. According to the Post, the altercation began after the women they were with bumped into each other.
Outside the bar, the two men reportedly shot at each other during a chase, per NBC 4. Both men were said to be carrying a .22 caliber handgun. Two uniformed officers who were on patrol nearby shot Facey on the northwest corner of Avenue A and Seventh Street after he refused multiple times to drop his weapon and lie on the ground, according to police accounts and media reports. Both men later died at Bellevue.
Per the reader: "I'm not an expert, but that doesn't look like a .22 shot — looks like a service revolver shot, perhaps 9mm or .45?"
Hub Thai was expected to reopen soon after the windows were repaired. Thankfully, the restaurant was closed at the time of the shooting.
It was lucky that shooting happened at 3:30 AM in the morning instead of in the afternoon when that street would have been crowded with people. Could have been a lot more people shot.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the shooting would've even happened at another time of day. They wouldn't have been drunk (probably) and they wouldn't have gone so crazy. And they wouldn't pull out guns with a lot of witnesses around (I don't think). These kinds of things almost always happen very late, near closing time.
ReplyDeleteCrazy to think getting bullet proof window should be considered when designing the restaurant.
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