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Police: Smoke shop employee killed during armed robbery in Queens
NEW YORK — Police are investigating a deadly shooting at a smoke shop in Queens.
It happened around noon Saturday at the Plug Smoke Shop on Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill.
Police say a 20-year-old employee was shot in the chest during an armed robbery. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The suspects got away with an unknown amount of items from the store and were seen fleeing on 110th Street in a white Toyota Camry.
Smoke shops across the city have recently been targeted in robberies. There was another fatal shooting inside a smoke shop in Harlem in February.
The investigation into Saturday’s deadly shooting is ongoing.
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