- Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Police also said the youngsters were not wearing masks or obscuring their faces during the incident and that made it easier to identify them.
By: Shubham Ghosh
AN Indian-American convenience store clerk had an instantaneous death after being shot at by two teens in Georgia in what appeared to be a case of armed robbery, police said.
Thirty-six-year-old Mandeep Singh, who belonged to Rosier Road in Augusta, was declared dead at the scene after getting hit by two bullets at Wrens Food Mart, located on a highway in Wrens, a city in Jefferson County, Georgia, The Augusta Chronicle newspaper reported.
According to the Wrens police department, the incident happened on June 28 when the two suspects entered the food mart around 8.37 pm local time. Wrens Police chief John Maynard told The Chronicle that the duo spent around five seconds looking at a shelf and it was clear what was their plan. He said this after checking visuals captured by the store security cameras.
“It appeared to be an armed robbery to start with, and at some point shots were fired and the clerk was deceased,” he was quoted as saying.
He also told the newspaper that Singh was working at the store for less than a month.
Maynard also said the teens were not wearing masks or obscuring their faces during the incident and that made it easier for the police to identify them.
“Within four hours we had the first suspect picked up. And in just over eight hours we had both of them in custody. That rarely happens, but I think our citizens are sending a clear message that they are tired of this,” Maynard was cited as saying in The Chronicle.
Wrens Police said names and photos of the offenders could not be released at the time because of their age.
The Jefferson County coroner’s office said Singh’s body was being taken to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab.
(With agency inputs)
