INWOOD, New York — A 36-year-old Inwood man has pleaded not guilty to making a threat of mass harm, third-degree menacing and disorderly conduct after Nassau County police say he shouted antisemitic threats and imitated gunfire at shoppers — among them a mother and her seven-year-old daughter — inside the Bingo Wholesale store on Burnside Avenue on Sunday morning, November 8. Hasani Ferguson was arrested that same night, arraigned on Monday, November 9, in Nassau County District Court in Hempstead, and released with non-monetary conditions.

According to the Nassau County Police Department, officers responded to the store at 603 Burnside Avenue at approximately 10:35 a.m. on Sunday after a report of a disturbance. A 34-year-old woman and her seven-year-old daughter were shopping when they were approached by Ferguson, a man they did not know, detectives said. Police allege that he extended his hands to imitate a handgun and made sounds resembling gunshots as he approached the woman and child, and that he shouted statements including “Hail Hitler,” “kill all Jews” and “kill Israel” while continuing the gestures.

Source: Nassau County Police Department announcement, via Long Island Guide, Nov. 9-10, 2026

Through the store, then out the door

Investigators said Ferguson then moved through the store, allegedly yelling “Kill the Jews” and making further shooting gestures and sounds toward other shoppers before running out of the business. The woman later told News 12 Long Island that she was shocked by the encounter and feared for her own safety and her daughter's. No injuries were reported in the police account, and no real firearm is alleged to have been involved — the threat, as police describe it, was made with hand gestures and imitated gunfire.

Source: Nassau County Police Department via Long Island Guide, Nov. 10, 2026

Arrested the same night, with a community patrol's help

Ferguson had fled before the responding officers could take him into custody. Police located him at approximately 11:30 p.m. that evening on Sheridan Avenue in Inwood and arrested him without further incident, the department said. The Rockaway Nassau Shomrim Patrol, a community safety organisation, assisted Nassau County detectives during the investigation, according to ABC7 New York reporting cited by Long Island Guide; the department's Fourth Squad detectives conducted the investigation.

Source: ABC7 New York / Nassau County Police Department, via Long Island Guide, Nov. 10, 2026

The store and the neighbourhood

Bingo Wholesale, at 603 Burnside Avenue, is a wholesale store in Inwood, a Nassau County community in the Five Towns area of Long Island's South Shore, close to the Queens border — an area with a large Jewish community, whose members were the shoppers police say were targeted on Sunday morning. Jewish Breaking News, which also reported the arrest from the police account, described the store as a kosher supermarket and quoted the full string of slogans police allege Ferguson shouted, including “Free Palestine” alongside the pro-Hitler and anti-Jewish threats.

Source: Jewish Breaking News, Nov. 9, 2026

What happens next

Ferguson's case now proceeds in Nassau County District Court in Hempstead following his not-guilty plea at Monday's arraignment. He was released with non-monetary conditions, according to News 12 Long Island — meaning no bail money was required for his release, on conditions the court set. No next court date was given in the police announcement or the reports published so far. Awaaz Punjab will report the next hearing and any change in the charges as officials announce them.

Source: News 12 Long Island via Long Island Guide, Nov. 10, 2026