This is just wrong.
WTF?
What were they thinking? No one helped, no one checked the clerk.
At least one called 911.
Store Clerk Murdered; Customers Keep Shopping
GARY, Ind. (CBS) - A 26-year-old convenience store clerk is shot and killed in broad daylight in Gary, Indiana. Police say witnesses stood by and did nothing. CBS 2's Pamela Jones shows us critical clues that may help crack the case.
Police say one of the men bursting into the clerk's booth at this convenience store is about to commit murder. In the video on the left side of the screen, you can see a man in red run up an aisle and kick in the door to the booth. Within seconds, the clerk, Gurjeet Singh, is shot in the neck.
"It was senseless. And really all homicides are senseless but what we gather from this, there was very little resistance," said Gary Police Department Commander Anthony Titus. "It didn't have to end the way it did."
But Titus says what's even more senseless, is the apparent inaction of bystanders standing near the front door almost the whole time.
Police asked that we conceal their identity.
Police say there were several customers walking around the store after the crime. But only one called 9-1-1 for help.
When asked what he finds most disturbing about the surveillance footage, Titus said, "The fact that people went in and out of the store and didn't call police. There is a man laying there. Nobody thinks to dial 9-1-1 or check to see if he's okay or anything."
Police want to talk to people who saw the four men at this mini-mart on 15th and Grant just before 5:20 p.m. Sunday.
Investigators say two were dressed in black shirts, like one man who's apparently holding a gun. The other two, including one man, had red shirts. Police think they were driving a burgundy compact car.
"It's clear enough to the point that if you're familiar with that person, you'd be able to look at it and go, that's someone I know," Titus said.
Investigators hope someone who sees this video will be able to help bring the family of 26-year-old Gurjeet Singh some closure. A man who was doing his job one minute and losing a fight for his life seconds later.
