Bodega worker stabbed to death in Inwood after asking men loitering to leave: Sources

NEW YORK CITY -- (WPIX) -- A bodega employee was fatally stabbed in the chest in Inwood Wednesday night after confronting a group of men outside the store, police sources tell PIX11 News.

Police found Mohamed Nasser Awawdah, 28, unconscious and unresponsive on Dyckman Street near Vermilyea Avenue around 8 p.m., officials said.

Police sources tell PIX11's Anthony DiLorenzo that a group of men was loitering outside the bodega where Awawdah was working. When he went outside and told them to keep it moving, one of the individuals stabbed him in the chest, sources say.

Emergency medical services rushed Awawdah to NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, but the man succumbed to his injuries.

No arrests have been made, police said. No weapon was recovered at the scene, police sources say.