For Douglas Miguel Rodriguez, working at a kosher market in Jersey City was a blessing. He had left Ecuador to provide for his family and things were looking up. Rodriguez, 49, died in a shooting at the store where he had worked for more than a year.
Rodriguez, 49, died when two people opened fire Tuesday at the kosher supermarket where he worked for the past year and a half, doing everything from handling the register to restocking challah, the traditional Jewish braided bread.Douglas Miguel Rodriguez had worked at the kosher store for more than a year.Rodriguez, known to his family and friends as Miguel, was a commercial engineer in his native Ecuador.
"He was a gentleman, a loving father and husband, a son and a brother," Ketty Rodriguez said of her brother.Rodriguez was killed along with Mindy Ferencz, 31, who owned the store along with her husband, and Moshe Deutsch, 24, who was a customer. A 40-year-old Jersey City police detective, Joseph Seals, was killed while attempting to stop the shooters.Douglas Miguel Rodriguez was originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador.
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