A Brooklyn coin dealer died Tuesday after a group of thieves pummeled him near his shop and dumped his battered body a mile away, police sources said.
Steve Halfon, 61, had just closed his shop, Liberty Coin Co. on Kings Highway in Gravesend, and was walking to his car when three men ambushed him just before 5:30 p.m., the sources said.
The men beat Halfon to a pulp, stuffed him in a black Volvo sedan and drove away, sources said. They dumped his body on East Seventh St. near Avenue N in Midwood and abandoned the car two blocks later, sources and a witness said.
"One guy gets out, covered in blood, and walks down the street like nothing happened," said a witness. The suspect threw his bloody T-shirt, a Yankees hat and a gray hoodie in a sewer before running away with the two others, the witness said.
A passing motorist spotted Halfon's body and called cops. He was taken to New York Community Hospital but couldn't be saved.
"He was a wonderful, wonderful man," said friend Harriet Arm."
It was not clear what the bandits got away with, but friends said Halfon had an impressive collection of gold and antique relics and always had a load of cash.
"He had the best coins," Arm said. "He had the goods. *This was a good hit for them."
No arrests were made.
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* What a friend. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
I think that Harriet needs to think before she speaks, eh?
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