Masked robbers barged into a Brooklyn laundromat Monday night and gunned down the store's hard-working attendant, leaving him to die, cops and the man's family said.
Russian immigrant Yevgeniy Shamray, 45, had only recently landed a job working as the overnight attendant at the Yellow & Brown Laundromat on Troy Ave. in Crown Heights.
Police said he was cleaning the store when the robbers burst in shortly before midnight and shot him in the chest and leg.
Mortally wounded, Shamray called his family for help, speaking in a faint voice, his son said.
"He sounded really weak," said the son, Yasha Shamray, 16. "He said he got shot and people attacked him with masks."
His wife called 911 and she and the son raced to the laundromat, arriving a few minutes before paramedics.
"I saw him unconscious," the son said, devastated by the horrible event. "He already looked dead. His face turned blue. He was cold."
The son said his father had a pulse, but paramedics told the family he died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
It was not immediately clear what was stolen, but cop sources confirmed Shamray was the victim of a robbery gone bad.
"It is definitely a robbery," a police source said.
Detectives are looking to see if surveillance footage provides a lead on the robbers, who remain on the loose, police sources said.
Shamray's family said he suffered from schizophrenia and was ecstatic over the laundromat job after working a humiliating job passing our fliers on the street.
"He was happy to make any kind of money," his son said. "He didn't feel like a bum anymore. He said it was a good job."
The son said his father was a trusting man, and always left the door of the laundromat open, despite the obvious danger.
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