Derrick Guerrero, 33, was working at the video game retailer’s store in a suburban Fort Lauderdale strip mall Tuesday night when a man grabbed five boxes of Pokemon Scarlet & Violet “ultra-premium” trading cards and ran toward the door, Pembroke Pines police said in a report released Wednesday.
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — A GameStop clerk who police say fatally shot a fleeing shoplifter has been charged with manslaughter. The cards retail for $120 a box. Guerrero pulled a handgun from his waistband and fired one shot, hitting the man in the side, police said. The shoplifter dropped the cards and ran outside to a waiting pickup truck, where a woman called police. He died three hours later at a hospital.
The man’s name has not been released. Florida, under its “stand your ground” law, lets someone use deadly force if there is a threat of death or great bodily harm to themselves or others, but it does not allow it simply to protect property. Manslaughter is a killing that is unplanned and in the heat of the moment. Guerrero was being held at the Broward County Jail on $25,000 bail. Jail records do not show if he has an attorney.
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