The teens raided the store’s shelves with candy, vapes and cigarettes.
A cashier at a gas station in the United States was brutally assaulted by a teenager while four of his friends searched the shelves for candy, vapes and cigarettes. The incident occurred Friday evening at the Friendly Normandy Market in Normandy Park, Washington state. New York Post said in a report. The teenagers eventually left the gas station with $100 (Rs 8,322) in cash, police said.
A disturbing video from inside the store, posted on social media, shows the moment a teenager, wearing a black hoodie, begins waving wildly at cashier Leah Johnston in an apparent attempt to create a distraction for his accomplices during their robbery, according to the outlet.
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A woman is recovering after being brutally attacked during a Normandy Park gas station robbery.It all happened at the Friendly Normandy Market around 9pm on Friday. Leah Johnston is a cashier at the gas station, surveillance footage shows that she… pic.twitter.com/a5TTBUjrAy
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The attacker repeatedly punched Ms Johnston, who desperately begged him to stop as she shielded her face and eventually fell to the ground.
“At one point I said to him, ‘You can stop hitting me. I’m not fighting you,’” Ms. Johnston said. Fox 13. “It didn’t slow him down.”
‘They laughed. They didn’t take anything into account,” she added. “They don’t care anymore.”
While Ms Johnston suffered this brutal assault, the other teenagers, also dressed in matching black hoodies and trousers, ransacked the cigarette display behind the till.
As they ran out of the store, the teens dropped most of their loot and were able to get less than $100 from the register.
Police said a total of six suspects were involved in the gas station assault and robbery.
They added that the teenagers fled the scene in stolen vehicles, a Kia and a Hyundai, which were later recovered.
