Loved ones of the Upper East Side bodega worker who was shot and killed Friday night in a robbery gone bad gathered Monday with NYPD officials at a memorial
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. State Police Officer Leonel Palomares had a bad feeling on that February morning as he and Officer Alfonso Montez waited along Interstate 10.
The two had been tasked with stopping Omar Cueva, a suspected drug trafficker who Homeland Security Investigations had warned Palomares was “paranoid” and carrying a rifle and large amount of meth.
The two rehearsed the traffic stop before they heard a fellow officer, Darian Jarrott, had stopped Cueva instead. Within minutes they learned Jarrott had been shot and Cueva was headed their way.
Palomares suggested they set up spike strips.
Montez disagreed, saying they should try to take Cueva out because he had just shot Jarrott, had “no regard for human life” and “based on his criminal history.”