Post by CatDaddy on Mar 7, 2008 6:15:14 GMT -5
CRESTWOOD, Mo. (March 6) - Surveillance video from a Starbucks in a St. Louis suburb captures how Roger Kreutz's life changed in an instant.
He stands in line behind a young man and woman at the coffee shop, where he's a regular customer. The young man fiddles with items on the counter while she orders a coffee, pays and heads out the door. The young man swipes the tip jar, and Kreutz, in the spur of the moment, gives chase.
What happened next is not caught on tape. Police say the two suspects, with the young man behind the wheel of a 1990s white Ford Taurus, ran over the Good Samaritan in the parking lot.
Kreutz, 54, died Wednesday at a hospital, two days after he was struck.
"I don't claim to understand it," police Chief Mike Paillou said at a news conference. He said detectives are following up on leads but asked for the public's help in identifying the suspects. He did not know what provoked them - "fear, confusion, being young?"
It's believed there was about $5 in the tip jar.
news.aol.com/story/_a/man-dies-after-trying-to-stop-thieves/20080306090409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
That is just sad....
-D
He stands in line behind a young man and woman at the coffee shop, where he's a regular customer. The young man fiddles with items on the counter while she orders a coffee, pays and heads out the door. The young man swipes the tip jar, and Kreutz, in the spur of the moment, gives chase.
What happened next is not caught on tape. Police say the two suspects, with the young man behind the wheel of a 1990s white Ford Taurus, ran over the Good Samaritan in the parking lot.
Kreutz, 54, died Wednesday at a hospital, two days after he was struck.
"I don't claim to understand it," police Chief Mike Paillou said at a news conference. He said detectives are following up on leads but asked for the public's help in identifying the suspects. He did not know what provoked them - "fear, confusion, being young?"
It's believed there was about $5 in the tip jar.
news.aol.com/story/_a/man-dies-after-trying-to-stop-thieves/20080306090409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
That is just sad....
-D
