Scotty Enoe NYC CVS worker stabs homeless shoplifter to death at Times Square location. Insists he acted in self defence. Faces murder charge.
How much is a sports drink worth? A CVS worker has been charged with murder for allegedly stabbing a homeless man to death at a Times Square, NYC store.
Scotty Enoe, 46, allegedly killed an un-named 50-year-old homeless man, known to be a habitual shoplifter during a fight in the store on 49th and Broadway early on Thursday morning.
An argument ensued that turned physical, and police say Enoe pulled out a pocketknife and stabbed the would-be shoplifter in the torso, ABC7NY reported.
‘My son was defending himself,’
The worker’s mother insists her son acted in self defense.
‘The guy came in and started arguing with Scotty. Next thing you know, Scotty was on the ground. He acted in self-defense,’ the suspect’s mother, Lucille Enoe, 72, told the Daily News.
‘When the guy threw him down and started beating him up, Scotty stabbed him’ the mom said.
Police said the fight broke out after Enoe attempted to stop the vagrant from stealing Gatorade and a container of creamer from the Broadway and West 49th Street store at around 12:30am.
After being punched, Enoe allegedly took out a knife and fatally stabbed the man in the torso.
Police were called to the scene for a reported robbery-in-progress but the stabbing had already taken place when they arrived.
The injured man was taken by Emergency Medical Service to NYC Health and Hospitals Bellevue where he was pronounced dead.
The identity of the victim is pending proper family notification.
Enoe, from Brooklyn, was taken into custody at the scene and later charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
‘It’s frustrating and depressing that my son has been charged. My son was defending himself,’ Enoe’s mother, who spoke to her son from the precinct, argued.
‘I would like for the charges to be dropped,’ the mom said, adding the entire ordeal was making her ‘very, very depressed and unhappy.’
‘My son is a very good person. My son never gets involved in this situation before. He’s a very dedicated worker,’ she continued. ‘One of the people from one of the stores where he work just called me and tell me he that he knows him for a while… and that’s he’s very respectful.’
Engaging store crime despite corporate hands off policy
The homeless man, who was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital, had more than a dozen previous shoplifting arrests, mostly for petit larceny. He has a couple for grand larceny, as well as criminal mischief, criminal possession of a weapon and burglary, ABC7NY reported.
The deceased man was known to target drug stores in Upper Manhattan, sources told the New York Post.
‘That’s his MO, he targets CVS and Walgreens,’ a police source told the tabloid.
Enoe immigrated to the US ten years ago from Grenada, according to his mother.
His sister, who declined to give her name, told the Daily News her brother is a ‘dedicated’ person who has nevder been in trouble with law enforcement.
‘He works two jobs and he’s never been in trouble. All he does is work’ she said.
‘He goes from one job to the next, he’s dedicated to hard work and his family. He helps people’ the sister added.
A spokesperson for the NYPD said: ‘The investigation remains ongoing and the identity of the deceased is pending proper family notification.’
Enoe in police custody at Mount Sinai West where he is being treated for injuries sustained in the fight.
Not immediately clear is what led to the CVS worker engaging the shoplifter in the face of continual corporate hands off policy in engaging in store crime.
