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Shooting at BP Station Leaves Clerk Dead
Updated: Tuesday, 10 Jan 2012, 7:02 PM EST
Published : Tuesday, 10 Jan 2012, 6:29 AM EST
By MYFOXATLANTA STAFF/myfoxatlanta
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - A DeKalb community is demanding justice following the murder of a popular store clerk.
Police say the man was shot and killed during an armed robbery at the BP gas station on Cedar Grove Road in Ellenwood late Monday.
Friends and customers gathered all morning at the store where the clerk was shot. Police continue to investigate the shooting, looking at surveillance video of the incident.
"Pete would have given you the shirt off his back," said customer Winifred Farria. "He didn't deserve to be shot."
Farria said whoever shot the clerk should get life in prison or the death penalty.
DeKalb police say two men came into the store around 11:30 p.m. Police said they grabbed cash from the register and fleeing.
“We believe that the clerk then went after them in the parking lot. He confronted at least one of the individuals and that’s when he was shot,” said Mekka Parish of the DeKalb County Police Department.
Authorities say the 39-year-old clerk was found with a wound to the chest. He was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Friends identified the victim as Damodar Pathak, known to many customers as Peter.
Friends and customers say Pathak was a good man and a hard worker who loved people.
It is not known if police will release the surveillance video.