An after-hours cleaning man at a Jamaica grocery shot and killed one of two brazen catburglars who’d cut a hole through the roof to rob the place, sources said.
The unidentified cleaning man was on the job at the Met Foodmarket at Jamaica Avenue and 173rd Street when the pair lowered themselves to a spot near the store’s check-out aisles shortly after 2 a.m.
The worker had a gun registered to the store’s owner and opened fire after confronting the pair, the sources said.
Manager Louis Rodriguez, 50, said the overnight worker was a churchgoing man known to fellow employees as “Tonito.”
“He’s a short guy, chubby, around 50, but he looks strong,” Rodriguez added.
Cops at the 103rd precinct were questioning the worker this morning.