Miami-Dade liquor store employee terminated in critical condition in a hospital after being shot while trying to prevent a robberythis Sunday, the police reported.
The events occurred around 6 pm on Sunday, at the beverage store Jensen’s Liquorslocated at North Miami Avenue and Northwest 79 Street, in the northwest of the county, when the employee confronted a man who was trying to steal a bottle of liquor.
According to the police and images captured by the establishment’s surveillance cameras, the subject entered as a customer who was supposedly going to make a return and, when the employee refused, the man grabbed a bottle that was on the counter and tried to leave without paying.
The store worker came out from behind the counter, confronted the individual, and a physical altercation occurred between the two while the employee tried to retrieve the bottle, he explained to AméricaTevé Albaro Zabaletaspokesperson for the Miami-Dade Police.
The fight continued outside the store and, at one point, the employee fell backwards to the parking lot floor, the subject shot him in the abdomen and then fled on a bicycle in an unknown direction.
When consulted by the television channel, liquor store workers identified their injured colleague as Emmanuel Taylor, 66 years oldand known to everyone as Manny.
Taylor underwent surgery with good results, his family said, but he is in stable critical condition, according to police.
Zabaleta recommended to people never confront thieves. “In this case the employee confronted the thief immediately and there was an altercation, and thank God they did not take his life, but this could have ended very tragically. “You have to think better about your actions before putting yourself in the path of danger,” said the officer.
“One’s life has much more value than property,” he stated, and recommended that, when events of this type happen, it is better to “observe all the details of the person so that they can identify them at another time,” and call 911. for officers to immediately go to the area.
The suspect is a armed and dangerous manthe police insisted, and asked the community for help to locate him as soon as possible and arrest him, the report stressed. America.
