NYC restaurant worker killed by irate patron didnt deserve to die like that, wife says as NYPD releases photos of shooters car

The innocent Brooklyn restaurant worker killed by a disgruntled patron who wildly fired off shots from his car early this month “didn’t deserve to die like that,” his wife told The Post Friday – as the NYPD released photos of the fleeing suspect’s ride.Frankley Duran, 36, was trying to close the gates of Room 1Hundred — a restaurant on Jamaica Avenue near New Jersey Avenue in East New York — just after midnight on Dec.2 when a motorist opened fire at the dining spot, according to cops and surveillance video obtained by The Post.Duran, who was struck in the head, was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he was initially listed in critical condition and succumbed to his injuries two days later, authorities said.“Everything just happened in an instant,” Duran’s wife, Yesmel Tejeda, 38, told The Post Friday.“The way that happened, he didn’t deserve to die like that, and I’m hoping the police and the communities and everybody finds that person, because this is something that all of us, we’re gonna get through, but with time, with time.”The shooter had flipped out over an unpaid $280 bill at the restaurant, Tejeda said.The enraged man then got into his 2016 Chrysler with New York plate LAL 7188, callously fired toward the eatery he’d just left and sped off, cops and sources said.Duran – who sources say had no criminal history and was not involved in the initial mayhem – collapsed to the ground as the car turned right onto Marginal Street East, the brief clip shows.Tejeda, who had been married to Duran for two years and planned to start a family with him next year, said her husband’s co-worker called her to tell her what happened.“They told me, ‘Oh, something happened to Frankley’…so I’m thinking he was a little drunk,” Tejeda said.

“So I was like, ‘Can you put him on the phone right now?’ I was like, so mad.And they told me, ‘Oh, he can’t talk right now.’ I’m like, ‘[What do] you ...