Shoplifters beat up store worker, 60, who runs after them. Then they hit him with car several times; he dies in parking lot.

Shoplifters beat up store worker, 60, who runs after them. Then they hit him with car several times; he dies in parking lot.


Shoplifters beat up a 60-year-old Southern California store worker who pursued them Wednesday — and then the crooks ran over him with a car several times, after which he died in the parking lot.

The suspects reportedly stole a $10 bag of face masks.

‘I really don’t know if life is worth it any more.’

Kourosh “Steve” Yaghoubi was helping at his brother’s shop — Giant Discount — in the 2000 block of Durfee Avenue in El Monte around 12:20 p.m. when a group of people entered the store and stole a box of disposable masks, KTLA-TV reported.

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Yaghoubi chased after the shoplifters, who witnesses said physically attacked him — hitting him in the head and knocking him to the ground, the station said.

The suspects then entered a sedan

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