Buffalo convenience store employee shoots coworker in front of son, eats snack next to body

Disturbing footage has surfaced in which a Buffalo, New York convenience store worker can be seen shooting his coworker execution-style in front of his young son, before calmly eating a snack while his victim was lifeless on the floor.

As reported by WGRZ, police responded to the horrifying crime on Tuesday around 3:30 pm at Sears Food Enterprise, where they found employee Tawfaik Alsheari, 62, dead in the store.



The video of the killing, which went viral on social media much against the victim's family's wishes, shows another employee, Abdul Hussein, 25, in a heated argument with his co-worker. According to the New York Post, the small boy standing near the two men is Alsheari's son. 

After a few minutes of yelling and profanities, Hussein picks up a rifle and aims it at Asheari, who had turned his back on the younger man. The child can be heard attempting to warn his father about the gun, but it was too late. 

Hussein shot him in the head one time, immediately dropping him to the floor. The boy can be seen running for cover behind the store's counter, and then the gunman is seen taking a snack break.

Hussein makes his way to the shelves of food, appears to wash his hands, and grabs something to eat before sitting down in a chair and licking his hands, all while Asheari was motionless on the ground.

A short time later, the outlet reported that the gunman was arrested and arraigned the next day on a murder charge. He was remanded without bail and will make another court appearance on Monday for his felony hearing.

Melissa Alsheari, the slain man's ex-wife, told WGRZ that she was horrified at the rounds the execution video was making on Facebook.

"I can't think straight to know that it's out there for people to see, and they're sharing it. I don't understand how they can put it on Facebook and be OK with themselves. Like you're seeing a man get executed, basically," she said.

"I don't know anything else to do. I've called everybody," she continued. "I called homicide detectives, the police department. I'm going to people that are posting these videos and asking them to take them down."

Facebook told the outlet that it only "removes videos and photos that show the violent death of someone when a family member requests its removal," but it has placed the clip behind a sensitive content warning.

Alsheari said she is attempting to get the videos taken down before her 15-year-old twin daughters see the harrowing footage. 

"I don't want them to see their dad being murdered. No kid should ever have to go through that," she said, adding that she lamented that fact that Asheari will be remembered as "a person that got shot in the head in this corner store by his co-worker — not that he was a good father, or a good person who had a kind heart and would do anything for about anybody."