Teen brutally stabs store clerk to death in second attack on Sikhs in Fresno in a week
Police are seeking a teenager who stabbed a Sikh store clerk to death last week in California.
Surveillance video shows the suspect, who appears to be in his late teens, lurking outside the Fresno shop New Year’s Day until customers left,
reported KFSN-TV.
The teen, who appears to be white, thin and about 5 foot 7 inches tall, then went inside, called Gurcharan Singh Gill toward him and
stabbed the clerk as he approached.
Gill pushed himself away and grabbed a golf club, but the teen knocked him to the ground and walked over to the cash register and tried unsuccessfully to open it.
The suspect grabbed something from a store shelf and walked out, leaving Gill to die from his wounds.
Authorities announced a $10,000 reward, including an $8,000 contribution from the city’s Sikh community and $2,000 from Crimestoppers, for information leading to an arrest.
The incident is being investigated as a hate crime, although Gill does not wear the traditional turban that has made other Sikhs a mistaken target of anti-Muslim violence. ...
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