Gunman kills KC 7-Eleven clerk working final shift

The Kansas City Star ^ | 18 March 2010 | AP

[ketelone]

Gurpreet Singh was working his final shift as a 7-Eleven clerk, before moving on next week to full-time job at a hospital, when he was gunned down during a robbery.

Police say they can't explain why Singh, 35, was shot in the abdomen early Wednesday even after complying with the gunman's instructions to hand over his register's cash in a bag.

"He didn't put up a struggle at all," said homicide Detective Jeff Cowdrey. "He did what he was supposed to do and got shot for it."

[ketelone]

"He didn't put up a struggle at all," said homicide Detective Jeff Cowdrey. "He did what he was supposed to do and got shot for it."

According the police, the victim is supposed to stand there with his hands in the air, whimpering, and then call the cops when the bad guys have left. If hed done something like blow the robbers head off with a .44 Magnum, he might have been alive today.

[Scotsman will be Free]

“Police say they can’t explain why Singh, 35, was shot in the abdomen early Wednesday even after complying with the gunman’s instructions...”
You ever consider the FACT that some people are just plain bad news?

[rabscuttle385]

Poor bastard.

[null and void]

When seconds count...

[CGASMIA68]

all convenience type outlets need multiple 12 gauge charges placed above the customer area pointing down with a trigger mechanism wired to a button on the floor of the cashiers side of the counter....
"Hands up", "OK". Boom!

[James C. Bennett]

Is this the same incident?

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Indian-American gunned down during robbery in US

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/indians-abroad/Indian-American-gunned-down-during-robbery-in-US/articleshow/5700816.cms

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI: Indian-born Gurpreet Singh was working his final shift as a 7-Eleven clerk, before moving on next week to full-time job at a hospital, when he was gunned down during a robbery.

Police say they can’t explain why Singh, 35, was shot in the abdomen early Wednesday even after complying with the gunman’s instructions to hand over his register’s cash in a bag.

``He didn’t put up a struggle at all,’’ said homicide Detective Jeff Cowdrey. ``He did what he was supposed to do and got shot for it.’’

The encounter was recorded on the store’s surveillance cameras, and Kansas City police are working to identify the killer and two other people who were with him, The Kansas City Star reported.

Singh, a divorced father of two whose family immigrated to the US from India when he was in middle school, was to start a new job next week as a hospital kitchen supervisor. His brother, Gurbhushan Singh, said he could have skipped his final shifts at the convenience store - where he’d already been robbed less than a month earlier - but didn’t because he had promised to be there.

Singh called police about 1:10am local time, after the gunman fled, then collapsed on the floor. He later died in surgery.

Gurbhushan Singh said his brother was proud about his new job and told his children, ages 7 and 9, he was going to be ``the boss.’’ Gurbhushan Singh told the children Wednesday that their father wasn’t coming home.

``They know they’re never going to see him again,’’ he said. ``That was really hard.’’

Video surveillance shows the gunman, a man standing next to him and a woman who stood near the store’s door.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It is incumbent on society to find and punish his killer or killers.

I am afraid we are going to find that this POS was on parole or recently released after serving some risibly light sentence for numerous previous violent crimes.

I’ll give you odds.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

According to 7-11 policy he wasn’t even allowed to carry a Swiss Army knife in his pocket!

[whatisthetruth]

"He didn't put up a struggle at all," said homicide Detective Jeff Cowdrey.

Maybe it's because the Indian religion teaches passivity in the face of violence, of course that's no way to deal with the typical Obama voter.

[ketelone]

Yes

[null and void]

You don’t actually know any Sikhs, do you?

[BigCinBigD]

Ironic, I just bought this yesterday.

[ketelone]

A walther?

[Spktyr]

At the very least, the clerk had nothing to lose and it doesn’t get any worse than what happened to him anyway if you do resist.

[Spktyr]

Ruger.

[James C. Bennett]

Maybe it's because the Indian religion teaches passivity in the face of violence.

 

  Devoted—with a heart grown pure, restrained

In lordly self-control, foregoing wiles

Of song and senses, freed from love and hate,

Dwelling ’mid solitudes, in diet spare,

With body, speech, and will tamed to obey,

Ever to holy meditation vowed,

From passions liberate, quit of the Self,

Of arrogance, impatience, anger, pride;

Freed from surroundings, quiet, lacking nought—

Such an one grows to oneness with the BRAHM;

Such an one, growing one with BRAHM, serene,

Sorrows no more, desires no more; his soul,

Equally loving all that lives, loves well

Me, Who have made them, and attains to Me.

By this same love and worship doth he know

Me as I am, how high and wonderful,

And knowing, straightway enters into Me.

And whatsoever deeds he doeth—fixed

In Me, as in his refuge—he hath won

For ever and for ever by My grace

Th’ Eternal Rest! So win thou! In thy thoughts

Do all thou dost for Me! Renounce for Me!

Sacrifice heart and mind and will to Me!

Live in the faith of Me! In faith of Me

All dangers thou shalt vanquish, by My grace,

But, trusting to thyself and heeding not,

Thou can’st but perish! If this day thou say’st

Relying on thyself, “I will not fight!”

Vain will the purpose prove! thy qualities

Would spur thee to the war. What thou dost shun,

Misled by fair illusions, thou wouldst seek

Against thy will, when the task comes to thee

Waking the promptings in thy nature set.

There lives a Master in the hearts of men

Maketh their deeds, by subtle pulling-strings,

Dance to what tune HE will. With all thy soul

Trust Him, and take Him for thy succor, Prince!

So—only so, Arjuna!—shall thou gain—

By grace of Him—the uttermost repose,

The Eternal Place!

 

 

- Bhagavad Gita, Ch: XVIII, Lines 182 - 220.

[hoosierham]

Most corporations absolutely forbid their employees from defending themselves or having anything that might be used as a weapon and say that any employee violating those policies will be teminated and prosecuted.

As long as we allow disarmament on the grounds that the corporation's private? property rights are more important than the natural right of self-defense clerks and other workers will be executed by vicious criminals.

I hope the family sues 7-11 for a $100 million and win.7-11 and others claim their rules provide a safe working enviroment as mandated by OSHA (which demands no-weapons rules in the workplace) when it is obvious such rules only make the poor worker a soft target while the corporate types enjoy the safety of their gated communities and guarded office buildings.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

I can tell you why he got shot.

So can most others blogging here ...

[HiTech RedNeck]

OSHA should be ousted!

[ketelone]

A walther?