Wake held for murdered 19-year-old Burger King worker

A wake was held Tuesday for the 19-year-old woman shot and killed while working at a Burger King restaurant in East Harlem.

Inconsolable, friends and family of Kristal Bayron-Nieves gathered at the funeral home at East 104th Street to say goodbye.

"She was always happy trying to make a change for the better. She wanted to work to buy a car and go to college," Nairelys Figueroa said.

A friend, Nairelys Figueroa, explains Bayron-Nieves had complained to her manager at the Burger King that she wanted a less dangerous dayshift and was moving to that the next week when the teenage cashier was shot and killed at work.

At gunpoint, the teenager had quickly handed over cash - but was shot anyway.

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