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Dad’s Dying Call

NY Post

A Brooklyn Laundromat attendant gunned down during a late-night robbery traded a series of heartbreaking phone calls with his family as he lay bleeding to death.

“When he told me he was shot, I started panicking,” Yasha Shamray, the 16-year-old son of victim Yevgeniy Shamray, said of Monday’s ordeal.

“I said, ‘How do you feel?’ He said, ‘It hurts to talk,’ and hung up. I called back a bunch of times and no one was answering. Finally, he picked up but wasn’t saying anything.”

Moments earlier, thugs wearing ski masks ambushed Shamray as he closed up the Laundromat at 375 Troy Ave. in Crown Heights around 11 p.m., said police spokesman Paul Browne.

They made off with just $100 from Shamray’s fanny pack, but left behind his cellphone. Shamray, 45, died of gunshot wounds to the chest and thigh on the way to Kings County Hospital.

Cops said there was no surveillance camera, but had found some videotape of interest from a nearby business.

At the family’s Sheepshead Bay home, Shamray’s wife of 20 years told The Post that her husband couldn’t even speak in his final call.

“There were no words, just breathing,” Larisa Shamray said. “He was in pain and couldn’t talk.”

Larisa Shamray said when her husband first called, she did not realize he had been shot.

“In the beginning, I didn’t have a clear picture of what happened to him,” said the Bennington College occupational therapy student who said her husband’s first call came at 11:15. “I felt he was in pain but I didn’t understand [he’d been shot].”

In a panic, she mistakenly told the 911 operator the Laundromat was located on Troy Street. The operator told her there was no such address but realized the store was on Troy Avenue.

Somehow, because of this error, Larisa Shamray claims it took an hour for emergency workers to show up at the scene.

Browne yesterday insisted there is only one record of Shamray calling 911 at 11:56 p.m. and EMS arrived on the scene by 12:04 a.m.

Browne said that Shamray — who immigrated to the United States from Russia nine years ago — first called his wife, 39, and then his boss, Arial Gorovich, to tell them he had been attacked.

The frantic wife, her son and the victim’s mother arrived a few minutes before the ambulance and said a few people were already inside trying to help.

“He already looked dead because his face was blue and he was getting cold, but he still had a pulse,” the son said. “They were doing CPR, but he died in the ambulance. By the time they got [to the hospital] he was already dead.”

Family members said Shamray cherished his job and had trouble finding work because he was a paranoid schizophrenic and had been taking medication for his condition.

“For just $100? I don’t understand why they shot him,” Yasha Shamray said.

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24 Comments

  • sad

    no family should have to suffer through that
    i wonder why he called his family before 911? he really loved them and wanted to say goodbye i suppose
    poor guy :(
    may he rest in peace

  • Moishe

    He was a good Russian Jewish man. He was very friendly and gave my kids delicious kosher candy.

    Please catch these savage black thugs that did this to him.

  • Empire

    Crownheights.info, please organize an evening demonstration and I’ll certainly be there. Enough is enough!! R”L.

  • To #6

    To #6 Black has nothing to do with this. They are thugs, not black thugs. I moved out of Crown heights(thank G-d) and now work with many wonderful black, latino, and asian people.
    I hope they catch these murderers. I hope people who call themseves chassidim see beyond the surface of color, or any other differences that are unlike themselves.

  • ploiny

    Why are they called robbers if they cant confirm wat they stole?
    But a murderers we kno for sure hes dead!!!!

    Bdh-

  • realistic

    it is an economic war that is hard to accept as a truthful account of events yet it has happened time and time again
    where are the jobs for all people

  • unknown

    is this the same thug that attacked a 10 year old boy on the way home from school @4:15pm one day, recently????& took his cell phone & said don’t turn around unless I’ll kill you????Where are the police ahead of time and store securities & footages hidden in the store for such crimes happening? We need more protection here, Mr. Blumberg, help supply it now!!!! This night worker manager was so friendly and caring for all types of people as we all saw and minded his business, always with a smile to all!!!!Why must the police allow these insane people to carry guns around and disturb our neighborhood????Get all families in this neighborhood to be kept busy with many constructive programs with the proper communication skills implied. The Interborough Services on East Ny Ave. are not effective at all if these things are happening here.They must help with protecting all the citizens & non citizens in our community & find out who are the real thugs that come in to them or their families who don’t show up. Thank alot!!!!

  • crown height

    Do you think that the killer is the same guy that killed the other guy on Brooklyn and Leffert 2 weeks ago is this any conection

  • insure domestic Tranquility

    It’s right there “insure domestic Tranquility” That means Law and Order

    If NYPD can not do it our vacation hopping President and low functioning congress are sworn by the constitution to provide it.

    “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

  • ce

    can we help his family?
    also
    we need to have the gov’t provide discounts on those surveillance cameras in HIGH CRIME areas and everyone should have one.
    the NYPD needs to call in the National Guard to deal with the big problem of GANGS which is long out of control.
    someone: lets get moving on this its waiting for something to happen.

  • to # 8

    Writing bluntly that you moved out of CH -“thank G-d” seems that you have no idea what CH is and don’t know what are blessings for you and etc I guess for CH it is just as well.

  • Why didnt this shop have cameras

    Why didnt this shop have cameras, everybody needs them and many have them, not so expensive, at least we could have a picture of the criminals to have something to go on, to protect us. Does the store owner live in Crown Heights? I am dissapointed in the store owner cutting corners with this.

    I am so sad for the family to loose their Husband and Father. He was a very nice man, my children are very scared to live here, he was very nice to them.

    Where are the police, they are not on the street corners, like they use to be when something like this happens?

    This time of season we needed extra protection especially the stores….I do not understand what is going on, please explain why there are less police with the recent (past three weeks) break in and cold blooded murder for pennies.

  • to the city

    the NRA (national rifle association) should already go again to try to make guns legal in NYC so then these thugs will not know who’s carrying guns and not, and be more scared to rob people straight up. this is goin way outa hand. if the police aren’t gonna do anything, then we should be able too!!!

  • Distressed

    The biggest demonstration would be for ALL CH to attend the Levaya & it should go thru C. Hts on the way to kevura.
    Does anyone know details of the Levaya?

  • Mushky

    I agree with 7.
    CH.info, we trust you. You’re the guys who’ll stand up when nothing is being done. So please organize a demonstration event and we will attend.
    Enough is enough!

  • come on

    don’t u think if u put the puzzle pieces together that so many murderings are happening we should stop it. Why arent the police there u should know better get a head of the game cure the sickness before u have it police let’s go

  • the sooner the better

    i am in for the demostration, make sure to get the councilman, mayor and governor involved