Elderly LA liquor store worker dies after being struck with scooter, robbed by teens
foxnews.comAn elderly Los Angeles liquor store worker has died after a group of teenagers robbed his store and struck him over the head with a scooter, according to police.
LAPD Public Information Officer Jeff Lee told Fox News Digital that the 69-year-old victim, a Filipino male, had been trying to stop the four teenage suspects — two males and two females described as Hispanic — from robbing his store, Tony's Market on East Avenue 40, of various items just before 7 p.m.
PT. One of the four suspects then hit the victim over the head with a scooter and left him bleeding on the ground, as seen in a graphic video of the incident posted to Instagram by user downtown_bigsby.
Bystanders rushed to help the victim identified on a GoFundMe page as Steven Reyes, FOX 11 Los Angeles first reported. Los Angeles authorities transported the victim to a nearby hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
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