A 16 -year -old boy was arrested on Friday, suspected of running and killing a man who was trying to stop the display thieves in his brother’s store in South El Monte at the beginning of the month, the authorities announced.
Kourosh “Steve” Yaghoubi, 60, was killed after having confronted the display thieves in the giant family reduction store of his brother on April 9. The teenager would have run over Yaghoubi while young people and others have fled, the police said. It is not known if the teenager was inside the store at any time of the incident.
Yaghoubi was unconscious and suffered from a blunt trauma when the authorities arrived, according to a press release from the Sheriff’s Department of the County of Los Angeles.
A man was killed in the city of South El rises on April 9 while trying to stop the display thieves, the authorities announced.
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The detectives found the vehicle used as a flight car, which led them to the 16 -year -old suspect, the authorities wrote in a press release. Because the suspect is a minor, the authorities will not free his name.
Yaghoubi’s brother and the store owner Jim Yaghoubi said ABC-7 That he and his brother followed the display thieves in the parking lot after their departure without paying for a box of $ 10 masks. A physical altercation ensued. Yaghoubi told the media that one of the display thieves had hit his brother on the head before the driver returned it.
“I don’t know why it happened. Honestly, I was there at the last minute of his life. I saw his face. I saw his eyes,” Yaghoubi told ABC-7.
Authorities are still trying to identify several other people who were in the vehicle at the time of the flight.
Anyone with information is requested to contact the Homicides Office of the Sheriff Department (323) 890-5500. Anonymous advice can be left to (800) 222-8477 or Stoppers Crime website.
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