When a scooter-riding gunman on a senseless rampage shot Cesar Martinez in Brooklyn Saturday it was like he wounded the bystander’s whole family, the victim’s distraught grandmother said Monday.
“His mother is holding up more than me,” said Ana Burgos, 60, who has been caring for Martinez since the weekend shooting spree left two other random victims wounded and an 87-year-old man dead.
“She holds it in a little bit but she needs to cry,” Burgos said. “She needs to scream. She needs to hit something. She needs to let it out. But she has been strong.”
Cops arrested Thomas Abreu, a 25-year-old restaurant deliveryman and charged him with the caught-on-camera 30 minute shooting spree that stretched from Brooklyn to Queens and claimed the life of Hamod Ali Saeidi, who was shot and killed while taking his daily stroll along a Queens street.
According to police, Martinez, 21, was Abreu’s first victim, taking a bullet in the shoulder when Abreu whizzed by him shortly after 11 a.m. at Arlington Ave. and Ashford St., two blocks from the duplex where the suspect lives in Cypress Hills.
Surveillance footage obtained by the Daily News shows Martinez crossing the street when the moped-riding gunman zips past him and opens fire, sending the victim sprawling to the ground in the crosswalk.
Martinez was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital and has since been recovering with help from his worried and angry grandmother.
“Thank God that he’s home,” she said. “And I thank God that he’s alive. And I thank God for the officer that helped him. And, God willing, he’s going to be fine.”
“Right now he’s in pain so he’s on medication — antibiotics, Motrin, Tylenol,” she added.
“He lost a tooth, broke his nose. So he’s going to have a couple of surgeries to fix all of that. And he wobbles a bit when he walks. I guess he has a nerve pinch. But the doctor says that he’s back to normal. It’s going to take time but he’s going to be back to his…
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