Lindenhurst Vape Shop Owner Killed Inside Business: PD

Lindenhurst NY

20 May, 2021

9:58 AM

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LINDENHURST, NY — A Long Island vape shop owner was killed inside his business Wednesday night, according to Suffolk police. A family member of Kinshuk Patel, the owner of Dapper Smoke Shop at 411 40th St. in Lindenhurst, couldn't reach him and called police around 9:40 p.m., police said. Officers found him injured inside the shop. The 33-year-old Babylon man, the father of a 4-year-old and 5-month-old according to ABC 7, was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, where he was pronounced dead. No arrests have been made as of Thursday night. Detectives asked anyone with information on the case to call the Homicide Squad at 631-852-6392 or anonymously call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.