Bar Worker Beaten For Asking Patrons To Pay Tab: NYPD

FLUSHING, QUEENS -- Police are searching for a group of patrons who viciously beat an employee at a Flushing karaoke bar after he suggested they settle up the $120 bill they'd racked up that night, police said.

Despite the karaoke bar on Fowler Avenue closing at 4 a.m., several men were still inside IgNight by 5:30 a.m. when a 41-year-old employee asked them to pay the tab they'd racked up, cops said.

The group instead began punching and kicking the employee before hitting him in the head with a bottle, authorities said.

Medics rushed the employee in critical condition to New York Presbyterian Queens Hospital, where he received 14 staples to his head. He was also treated for a broken left middle finger and a severe cut to his left eye, police said.

The NYPD released photos on Tuesday night of the violent patrons, who police estimate to be in their late 40s.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).