Bridgeport police are looking for two armed men who they say robbed a store owner before shooting and killing him, marking the city's fifth homicide of the year.
Jose Salgado, 57, was working with his wife at their store, Sapiao's Grocery at 351 Lexington Avenue when the men, wielding handguns, demanded money, police said. Just after Salgado gave the robbers the money, one of the armed men shot him, according to police.
A regular customer, who wished to remain anonymous, found him on a sidewalk outside the store on Lexington Avenue, said he performed CPR on Salgado and tried to save him.
Salgado was transported to St. Vincent's Medical Center, where he died at 3:46 p.m.
Video surveillance shows the suspected robbers walking east on Linen Avenue in the direction of the store and running the opposite way down the street a minute later, police said. They escaped in a bright four-door vehicle, possibly a kiwi-colored Ford Focus, and took off down Linen Avenue, witnesses told police.
A third person was waiting for them in the car in the passenger's seat, witnesses told police.
The first suspect police are looking for, the driver of the car, is about 5-foot-9, of medium build, in his 30s and he wore a mask, police said. The second man was about 5-foot-6 or 5-foot-7, in his 30s and had long hair, police said.
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This comes two and a half weeks after another Bridgeport store worker was shot and killed.
In the case at T. Market on Reservoir Avenue, police did not believe robbery was the motive.
Neighbors and friends in the Portuguese community say the owner of Sapiao’s had run the store with his wife for decades.
Police released a surveillance video of the suspected robbers and their getaway car and ask anyone with information to contact Det. Ada Curet at 203-581-5236.
