Bismillaah (In The Name of Allah)
Dear Readers,
A Walmart temporary employee was trampled to death when shoppers tore its door off its hinges!!
The New York Times is reporting that a temporary employee of a suburban New York Walmart was trampled to death when a throng of shoppers tore down the front doors of the store and surged inside.
At 4:55 this morning, a group of 2,000 shoppers began pushing at the doors of the Walmart in Valley Stream, NY. The mob broke the doors off of their hinges and pushed inside the store, knocking down Jdimypai Damour, 34. No one helped him as he lay on the floor.
The NYT says:
People did not stop to help the employee as he lay on the ground, and they pushed against other Wal-Mart workers who were trying to aid Mr. Damour. The crowd kept running into the store even after the police arrived, jostling and pushing officers who were trying to perform CPR, the police said.
“They were like a stampede,” said Nassau Det. Lt. Michael Fleming. “Hundreds of people walked past him, over him or around him.”
Mr. Damour was taken from the Wal-Mart to nearby Franklin Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:03 a.m., the police said.
The NYT said that crowds were allowed to begin forming at 9pm the previous night. The police were called at around 3:30 AM, but were apparently overwhelmed by calls from other stores.
At the time the doors were broken, several Walmart employees, including the one who died, were trying to hold the doors in place but were overwhelmed by the crowd.
Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death [NYT]
Police are reviewing the video surveilance to view who trampled the employee to death.
Criminal charges were possible, but identifying individual shoppers in the video from Friday may prove difficult, said Detective Lt. Michael Fleming, a Nassau County police spokesman.
Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers stepped over him and became irate when officials said the store was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said.
At least four other people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation or minor injuries. The store in Valley Stream on Long Island closed for several hours before reopening.
Police said about 2,000 people were gathered outside the Wal-Mart doors before its 5 a.m. opening at a mall about 20 miles east of Manhattan. The impatient crowd knocked the employee, identified by police as Jdimytai Damour, to the ground as he opened the doors.
A verse in the Qur’an says, that “anyone who
saves one life, it is as if he has saved the whole of mankind and anyone who has killed
another person (except in case of murder or mischief on earth) it is as if he has killed the
whole of mankind.”
[Quran 5:32]
What do you think of this horrific crime? Do you agree that this was a crime against humanity or do you view this as something seperate all together?
Ofcourse I agree this to be a crime ….. killing an innocent man just for no reason …. and showing no regret afterwards nor did they help ……
Bismillaah
Assalaamu Alaikum!
Yes! It was a grievous sin, indeed.