A Queens jewelry store employee was shot during an armed stick-up at the business Tuesday evening, cops said.
Three men burst into the store, where the 59-year-old victim was working, on Junction Boulevard near 37th Avenue in Corona around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and snatched up assorted jewelry, police said.
During the heist, one of them fired off a gun, striking the employee in the thigh and grazing his head, authorities said.
The wounded man was taken to the Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he was listed in stable condition.
The trio of suspects fled in an unknown direction and had not been caught by Wednesday morning.
The specific jewelry items stolen, and their exact value, were unclear Wednesday.
The incident comes less than a week after a celebrity jeweler who has worked with stars like Ice Spice, Nicki Minaj and Usher was held at gunpoint and robbed of an estimated $1 million in jewelry in Manhattan’s Diamond District overnight Thursday, police and sources said.
Those robbers looted a single chain — itself valued at $1 million — from a display case before running out and into a black sedan, cops and police sources said.
No one was hurt during that heist.