Ex-SUNY football player shot during bodega brawl in Queens
A former SUNY Buffalo football player caught a bullet during a bodega brawl in Queens, cops said Tuesday.
Now police are looking for Jeffrey Thurston in connection to one of the latest acts of gun violence in Gotham as shooting spike in every borough.
Thurston allegedly began arguing with the 20-year-old Malachi Capers inside the 136 Deli & Grill
on Springfield Avenue in Queens around 5:30 p.m. Monday, according to Chief Rodney Harrison.
Then, he allegedly punched Capers in the face, pulled a gun and fired when the fight spilled onto the sidewalk, video shows.
Capers was shot once in the abdomen and remains critical Tuesday afternoon, Harrison said in a Tweet.
Capers last played for Buffalo in 2018, stats show, but remains enrolled at the college, according to Harrison. ABC reports he was majoring in psychology.
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