A 16 -year -old boy was arrested on Friday, suspected of running over and killing a man who tried to stop thieves in his brother in South El Monte earlier this month, authorities said.
Kouurah “Steve” Yaghoubi, 60, was killed after the thieves of confrontated stores in the family giant discounts of his brother on April 9. The teenager supposedly ran around Yaghoubi when the young and others fled, police said. It is not clear that the teenager was inside the store at any time of the incident.
Yaghoubi was unconscious and suffered a blunt force of force when the authorities arrived, according to a press release from the Sheriff’s department of Los Angeles County.
A man was killed in the city of South the Mount on April 9 while trying to stop the thieves, authorities said.
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The detectives found the vehicle used as the exhaust 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 publish their name.
Yaghoubi’s brother and store owner, Jim Yaghoubi, told him ABC-7 That he and his brother followed the thieves to the parking lot after they left without paying a $ 10 mask box. There was a physical altercation. Yaghoubi told the media that one of the thieves of stores hit his brother in the head before the driver ran it.
“I don’t know why this happened. Honestly, I was there at the last minute of his life. I saw his face. I saw his eyes,” Yaghoubi told ABC-7.
The authorities are still trying to identify several other people who were in the vehicle at the time of theft.
Any person with information must communicate with the Homicide Office of the Sheriff Department at (323) 890-5500. Anonymous tips can be left to (800) 222-8477 or in the Crime Stoppers website.
