Samaritan Beaten With 6-Pack of Green Tea

Alabama Mobile  Mobile Police are asking for help in identifying suspect who beat a good samaritan at a gas station
by WKRG Staff
Published: Thu, September 17, 2009 - 5:05 pm CST Last Updated: Thu, September 17, 2009 - 5:16 pm CST
MOBILE, Alabama - A good samaritan who was stepping in to help a convenience store clerk was beaten repeatedly and the crime was caught on tape.
Mobile Police say it happened around 10:00 o'clock on the night of September 7th at the Shell gas station at 3351 Springhill Avenue.
Investigators say the suspect was cursing at the store clerk about the price of a cup of ice.
The samaritan asked the man to stop it and the suspect began beating him.
The incident was caught on the store's video surveillance system.
In the video, you see the suspect beating the man with his fist before pausing to grab a 6-pack of green tea and continuing the assault.
Police say the victim, a 31-year old man, sustained serious, but not life-threateing, injuries.
If you recognize the suspect, call Mobile Police at 208-7211 or CrimeStoppers at 208-7000.
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He would have benefited from having a smith and Wesson.  The crackhead that wanted a cup of ice should have keep his mouth shut. But you are right about one thing. You can’t expect everyone to be heroes or have a backbone.

aside from the comments about carrying weapons you other ones are idiots.It is easy to say what you would have done from the comforts of your home sitting in front of your computer.Those were women somebodies wife,mother,daughter..etc.Would you expect a female member of your family to intervine in something in their workplace ie;I guess tellers should thwart bank robberies.It seems that you people are looking down on people who are making an honest living and being extremly concerned about someone who should have kept his mouth shut.I am sorry it happened to the guy but he would have benefitted from some situation assesment training.

The clerks are what you get, low skilled baby mommas, just doing the bare minimum they can until the boss finds out how much they have been stealing or giving away to their thug friends.  They are on the job to job career cycle

They could care less if someone was killed or not as long as “they be getting off on time”.  I wish there was a way to check to see if the one on the phone had called the police.

What an animal like that is doing on the street is beyond me. Over a cup of ice???? JEEZ! That’s why I carry. I’m not an advocate of violence, but there are times where some sort of force, be it deadly or not, is advocated. What the h**^ were the clerks doing?

Wow!This is why we need to become proficient in the use of concealed firearms! As a former Deputy I NEVER once went to a call where there was an armed victim of violent crime. Only the unarmed were victims. I do not advocate violence , but clearly one has a duty to defend life itself. As for the observer/clerk , what a worthless piece of trash. I don’t know how Bama laws read but if she had an obligation to protect life and limb and failed to act she should be charged with the assailant. Horrible. If not firearms the how bout some “karate in a can” cayenne pepper spray with a 2 million SHU rating will get compliance in a hurry, even comes with a indelible day glow hunter orange dye. Won’t wash off for about six days. Geeze! Hope dude’s ok

These clerks are morons!!!!! maybe thats why they work at a gas station, they dont have sense god gave a turnip green. Maybe the guy should have just ket him continue to talk to the clerks that way, maybe he would have assaulted them, and Im sure they would have wanted someone to help.

Its all excepted look at the animals in the video. Do you really expect anything more.

How horrible!  What is up with the clerks?  I am hoping the one is calling the police, but the other one let me get something out of the closet and pretend this isn’t going on???

“It’s only the 17th”? My card just reloaded today!

If I were the clerk I’d have found something to sneak up and CLOCK him in the back of the head with it myself! Apparently she was on the phone, and there were two of them surely one of them could have tag teamed the one man beating the other!

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