It's been a difficult few weeks for 7-Eleven. A cold-blooded killer targets clerks and customers. Stores forced to shut down. A woman torches a Mid-Wilshire store. Now a mob loots a South L.A. store. The push to catch the looters - Tonight at 11 from ABC7.
At a Thursday morning press conference, the Los Angeles Police Department released surveillance footage from inside the store on Figueroa Street and El Segundo Boulevard in the hopes that the public might recognize anybody in the crowd.
Police said the suspects ransacked the store, destroying and taking several items without paying. At one point, there were at least 100 people inside the store during the Monday incident. The footage shows a large crowd of people outside the store before they flooded into the store and started grabbing and pulling merchandise from the shelves. At one point, several people crossed over the plastic barrier over the front counter and continued to throw items everywhere.
Police said one particular man wearing a Colorado Rockies baseball hat and jersey grabbed items and threw them at a worker."It turned into a real angry, somewhat mob mentality," said Detective Ryan Moreno. "They come inside the store, they start ransacking the place, taking everything, whatever they can - food, cigarettes, lottery tickets. Someone tried to grab the cashier box."Authorities are urging the public to come forward if they recognize anybody in the video.
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