It's the Black Way: Watch Crime Video of Auburn, Washington “Teens” Robbing Store, Leaving Clerk to Die after He Collapses from Heart Attack

 

Robbery victim Zarif Kelada with his three kids 

By “W” and an Anonymous Reader
 


 

Ah-ha 17 hours ago
Anyone who recognizes the two young teenagers and the man involved or who has information is urged to call the Auburn Police tip line at 253-288-7403. Shell gas station in Auburn, Washington state, on Saturday Sept 8 at 5.41pm.
 

Teens rob store, leave clerk to die after he suffers heart attack
By Chris Perez
September 11, 2018 | 11:10 p.m. | Updated
New York Post

This is about as low as it gets.

Cops released surveillance footage this week showing the sickening moment when two teens from Washington state robbed a convenience store after the clerk suffered a near-fatal heart attack.

Their indecency, however, didn’t stop there.

The teens made multiple trips in and out of the store with their loot — which included a dollar bill that was plucked from the worker’s hand — before eventually leaving him to die.

Cops said neither of them called police for help or did anything to save the man.

“It just blows my mind,” store manager Angela Sharapova told KOMO. “We can’t believe that this happened. It’s absolutely heartbreaking. And we’re just all kind of coping with it — hoping that our guy’s going to make it.”

Authorities asked for the public’s help on Monday in identifying the two teens, as well as a man who was with them at the time of the incident.

“Someone knows who these people are who did not care at all about this man’s well-being,” the Auburn WA Police Department wrote on Facebook. “Please help identify them so that they are brought to justice.”

The clerk — identified as Zarif Kelada, a local father of three — was working alone when the trio came in on Saturday around 5 p.m., according to cops.

He can be seen arguing with them on surveillance video right before suffering the heart attack.

“One of the teenagers grabbed what appears to be a pepperoni stick from the counter and starts to eat it,” cops said in the FB post. “He grabs a second one and gives it to the other teenager. The adult male then comes to the counter to purchase an item. It appears that the clerk attempts to charge the adult for the pepperoni sticks and an argument ensues. The clerk was given a dollar bill from one of the teenagers. The clerk becomes upset and approaches the teenagers and begins to talk to them. After speaking with them the clerk, with the dollar bill still in his hand, turns to return to the register area and immediately appears to have a major medical issue and collapses to the floor.”

Sharapova told reporters that Kelada told the teens “this is wrong and you have to pay,” but they refused to listen.

After falling to the ground, one of them can be seen on video reaching down and taking the dollar bill back from the clerk before they both begin robbing the store.

Cops said the teens wound up stealing some cigarettes and $178 from the register.

“While the clerk was on the ground dying, neither of the three subjects who saw him fall to the ground called for help,” cops said. “Approx. 3 minutes later a subject entered the store and saw the clerk on the ground and immediately called 911.”

Kelada was transported to a local hospital in critical condition and later placed on life support.

“It just breaks our hearts,” Sharapova said. “Now this guy is fighting for his life. He has three little children. He has a stay-at-home wife. We just pray to God that he makes it.”

Friends and family have set up a GoFundMe page for Kelada to help pay for his medical bills. It had already raised nearly $7,000 of its $10,000 goal as of 10 p.m. Tuesday.

[N.S.: Actually, his family has nothing to do with the GoFundMe page. The person who set it up says she is a friend from work.]