A fight between a CVS worker and a man attempting to shoplift from the Midtown store turned deadly on Thursday morning when the employee knifed the man in the torso, cops and police sources said.
Employee Scotty Enoe and a man trying to steal goods got into an argument near the door of the CVS pharmacy on Broadway near W. 49th St., according to authorities.
“It was after midnight. It was a homeless guy. He had a big problem with the security guard with the CVS,” said street vendor Modo Gui, who witnessed the melee from across the street.
The thief punched Enoe, according to a police source, with the employee then pulling a knife and stabbing the 50-year-old man in the torso at about 12:26 a.m., police said.
“They fought and he stabbed him. Boom. Stabbed him dead. It’s crazy,” Gui said.
Officers responding to a 911 call for a robbery in progress arrived to find the would-be shoplifter with a stab wound to his torso.
Medics rushed the man to Bellevue Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Enoe, 46, of Brooklyn, was arrested and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
He has no criminal record, they added.
The deceased man had multiple prior arrests for shoplifting, including at CVS and Walmart, a police source said.
A manager at the CVS declined to comment when a Daily News reporter asked about the stabbing.
The pharmacy is located on the first two floors of the historic Brill Building, which was once a bustling musical epicenter in New York City where pop artists including Carole King penned, recorded and sold hit songs.
Amid an explosion of shoplifting in the city, Mayor Adams and city officials earlier this year unveiled a plan to tamp down on retail theft.
The goal is to address root causes like poverty and drug addiction while homing in on organized gangs of thieves.
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