And Then At The End Of The Third Act, He Kills Him

INT. QUEENS DINER:

The end came for Omar Castro, of 40th Street, in the New Post Coffee Shop on Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside as the gunman shot him once in the face and once in the chest, police said.

Witnesses said the desperate Castro, 41, ran from his apartment building on 40th Street and fled down the block with the assailant right behind him. The gunman got off as many as five shots, witnesses said, but none found their mark — until the final two inside the diner.

A waitress at the New Post named Candy, 44, said Castro burst into the place, terrified, just as a handful of customers were settling down for breakfast at about 6:30 a.m.

“A man came running in and said, ‘Call the police, the guy’s coming,'” said the waitress, who fled to a basement kitchen. She said the victim ran into a restroom then came back out, the last thing he ever did.

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A woman identified as Castro’s wife later arrived at the scene in her pajamas. When she looked at her husband’s body beneath a sheet, she showed little emotion, said a family friend.

“She says, ‘He’s dead,’ but she wasn’t crying,” said Giselle Vargas, 42.