New video showing an NYPD cop dragging away a Bronx bodega clerk he fatally shot after mistaking him for a robber confirmed for the victim’s Marine Corps sister what she has believed for years — that officers had no regard for her brother’s life.
“He dragged my brother’s body like he was a dead animal,” Nicole Cuevas said Thursday, standing at the same South Bronx street corner where her brother Reynaldo was fatally shot four years ago.
“It’s like they just left him there to bleed to death,” said Cuevas, 22, a Marine reservist and Afghanistan war veteran.
The recently surfaced footage shows an officer yanking her brother by the arm down the sidewalk after shooting him while responding to an armed robbery at his store on Franklin Ave. in Morrisania.
Hours after the Sept. 7, 2012, episode, then-Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said officers at the scene provided Reynaldo CPR “immediately” after he was shot.
The NYPD released security video showing Reynaldo, 20, sprinting out of the bodega — colliding with seven-year veteran Officer Ramysh Bangali and tumbling to the ground.
But the footage released to the public did not include what happened after the shot was fired.
The new video, obtained by the family’s lawyers as part of a lawsuit filed against the city, shows Bangali yanking Reynaldo away from the store’s entrance, with the real suspects still inside.
Bronx bodega worker's family want answers about cops killing him
“I just feel like if he would have helped him sooner, he probably would have been here,” the sister said as she stood in front of the store, which has been re-named the Cuevas Deli.
Another closeup video obtained by the Daily News on Thursday appears to show the officer’s gun going off just before the fleeing bodega worker ran into him — casting doubt on Kelly’s account that Bangali’s gun “accidentally” went off after the pair became “entangled.”
A spokeswoman for Kelly did not respond to a request for comment.
A source familiar with police tactics said cops would have needed to take Cuevas out of the possible line of fire before medical personnel could start working on him.
Ernesto Delgado, 35, and Orlando Ramos, 31, were sentenced to 13 and 17 years in prison, respectively, after pleading guilty to robbery earlier this year.
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“He dragged my brother’s body like he was a dead animal,” Nicole Cuevas said Thursday, standing at the same South Bronx street corner where her brother Reynaldo was fatally shot four years ago.
“It’s like they just left him there to bleed to death,” said Cuevas, 22, a Marine reservist and Afghanistan war veteran.
The recently surfaced footage shows an officer yanking her brother by the arm down the sidewalk after shooting him while responding to an armed robbery at his store on Franklin Ave. in Morrisania.
Hours after the Sept. 7, 2012, episode, then-Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said officers at the scene provided Reynaldo CPR “immediately” after he was shot.
The NYPD released security video showing Reynaldo, 20, sprinting out of the bodega — colliding with seven-year veteran Officer Ramysh Bangali and tumbling to the ground.
But the footage released to the public did not include what happened after the shot was fired.
The new video, obtained by the family’s lawyers as part of a lawsuit filed against the city, shows Bangali yanking Reynaldo away from the store’s entrance, with the real suspects still inside.
Bronx bodega worker's family want answers about cops killing him
“I just feel like if he would have helped him sooner, he probably would have been here,” the sister said as she stood in front of the store, which has been re-named the Cuevas Deli.
Another closeup video obtained by the Daily News on Thursday appears to show the officer’s gun going off just before the fleeing bodega worker ran into him — casting doubt on Kelly’s account that Bangali’s gun “accidentally” went off after the pair became “entangled.”
A spokeswoman for Kelly did not respond to a request for comment.
A source familiar with police tactics said cops would have needed to take Cuevas out of the possible line of fire before medical personnel could start working on him.
Ernesto Delgado, 35, and Orlando Ramos, 31, were sentenced to 13 and 17 years in prison, respectively, after pleading guilty to robbery earlier this year.
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