A Brooklyn pizza shop employee was shot during a clash with a possible would-be robber late Tuesday, cops said.
The 44-year-old male worker was inside Rocco Pizza III on Halsey Street near Throop Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 9:30 p.m. when the gunman blasted him in the left leg during a dispute, police said.
The argument may have begun after the suspect tried to steal from the pizzeria, cops said.
The victim, a 44-year-old worker at Rocco Pizza III, was shot in the leg by a suspect who may have tried to rob the shop, cops said. Wayne Carrington
The suspect was arrested a short time later after he tried to rob someone on Macon Street, cops said. Wayne CarringtonThe victim was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center in stable condition.
The suspect, a man in his 20s, fled, but was busted a short time later when he robbed a man in his 30s of his cellphone on nearby Macon Street, authorities said.
Charges are pending against him.
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