Queens laundromat worker defended mom in clash with customer before being shot to death

"Just two hours before a gunman in camouflage executed a Queens laundromat worker in front of the victim's mother, the doomed employee got into a heated argument with a threatening customer demanding free detergent, the shell-shocked mom told the Daily News. Now victim Dominick Lowery's mother wonders if that customer came back to kill her son. The gunman was dressed in head-to-toe camouflage and neither the mother nor cops know if he's the same man who menaced the victim earlier Saturday morning."

"Y'all gon' get got!' the customer yelled, even flashing a knife, prompting Samuel, 57, who also worked at the laundromat, to call 911 early Saturday. 'By the time the cops got there, he was gone already,' said Samuel. Samuel had just finished her shift and was sitting in her car while her son was inside waiting to receive his paycheck when she heard the crack of a gunshot. Her son was shot in the temple as he left the laundromat."

A Queens laundromat worker, Dominick Lowery, was shot and killed outside the Wash & Fold Super Laundry in Laurelton. Earlier the same morning a threatening customer demanded free detergent and flashed a knife, prompting employee Selena Samuel to call 911; the customer had left before police arrived. Around 8:40 a.m., a man dressed in head-to-toe camouflage approached and shot Lowery in the temple as he left the store, in front of his mother. No arrests have been made. Lowery worked maintenance at the laundromat to help his mother, who remains inconsolable and uncertain about the assailant's identity.

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