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In less than three hours, four 7-Eleven stores were looted between 9:30 p.m. Friday and midnight in Los Angeles Countythe authorities reported.
The robbed businesses are located in the 5700 block of Melrose Avenue, in the 5700 block of Santa Monica Boulevard, in the 4200 block of Beverly Boulevard and in the 2800 block of James M. Wood Boulevard.
According to the researchers, Two men armed with a pistol were involved in each of the robberies..
Some of the assaults were caught on surveillance cameras.
In the incident that occurred at the Beverly Boulevard store in East Hollywood, one of the suspects is observed when he enters the business and pretends to walk around waiting for customers to leave.
Moments later, the robber confronts the store employees and warns them that he had a gun. Walk behind the cashier’s counter, pick up cigarettes and other tobacco products.
Grab a large garbage bag to carry the products that you calmly took from the shelves, while the other suspect runs into the store, jumps on the cashier’s counter and takes the box with the cash.
It looks like, the suspects took only cash or cigarettes, or both.
The victims believe that the two suspects are responsible for the other assaults committed during that same night.
Some of the 7-Eleven employees acknowledged that these types of incidents, involving armed robberies, represent just a reminder of how dangerous their work at night can be.
So far, the authorities they have not confirmed if these assaults are related.
The workers said that the presence of a person in a 7-Eleven after 12:00 pm does not give enough confidence, so they considered that it would be advisable for the stores to close at midnight.
This chain of assaults It comes almost a year after the deadly shootings that occurred at 7-Eleven stores in Southern California.
a suspect, Malik Patt, was accused of killing three people during the assaults committed in July 2022.
Patt is in prison awaiting trial, but his accomplice pleaded guilty earlier this year to his part in the crimes.
If anyone identifies the suspects captured on the surveillance video, they should contact the Los Angeles Police Department at 1-877-275-5273.
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