Authorities said a 16-year-old boy allegedly fled and killed a man who tried to stop at his brother’s brother’s store earlier this month.
Police said Kourosh “Steve” Yaghoubi was killed after facing the shoplifter in April 9 at a giant discount store owned by her brother’s family. It is not clear whether the teen was in the store at any time the incident occurred.
Yaghoubi was unconscious and suffered blunt trauma when authorities arrived, according to a department release from the Los Angeles County Sheriff.
A man was killed in the city of South Elmont on April 9 in an attempt to stop shopping.
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The detectives discovered vehicles used to evade the car, which brought them to the 16-year-old suspect, authorities wrote in a press release. Because the suspect is a minor, the authorities will not release his name.
Yaghoubi’s brother and store owner Jim Yaghoubi told ABC-7 He and his brother left the shoplifters into the parking lot, and they did not pay $10 for masks. The physical dispute that followed. Yaghoubi told the news outlet that one of the shoppers slammed his brother before the driver ran past him.
“I don’t know why this happened. Honestly, the last moment of my life was there. I saw his face. I saw his eyes,” Yaghoubi told ABC-7.
Authorities are still trying to identify several other people in the vehicle during theft.
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