1 dead, 2 critically hurt after employees attacked with hammer at Brooklyn restaurant

Baku. 16 January. REPORT.AZ/ A chef at a Brooklyn restaurant died after a man with a hammer burst into the business and attacked him and two others in what police say was a random attack.

The hammer-wielding man burst into Seafood Buffet Tuesday evening, randomly attacking the 60-year-old owner, a 34-year-old chef and a 50-year-old worker, police said.

The suspect walked into the buffet near Emmons Avenue and East 19th Street in Sheepshead Bay just after 5 p.m., first attacking the owner at the front of the resturant, then going to the back where he hit the chef and worker, according to police.

All three victims were taken to Lutheran Hospital in critical condition, and it was there where the chef was pronounced dead. He has not been identified.