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US: Violent incidents hit gas stations in early May, including one deadly, according to two separate reports

There were two violent incidents related to violence against fuel station workers in two separate incidents in the US in early May which were separately reported by media: one involving a gas station worker brutally attacked by a teen mob and another which ended with the killing of a fuel truck driver inside a fuel station forecourt.



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A 42-year-man from an area near Chicago suffered a fractured skull when he was brutally beaten and robbed May 7. The attack occurred after he left work. He was targeted by a mob of teenagers some as young as 12-years-old, police told local media.

The teens waited for the fuel station worker to end his evening shift, reports said. Cameras showed the teens had been inside the station before the attack. They left but later returned to coincide with the end of the shift. They run against the victim "from all directions," the report said.

Separately, in Forth Worth, Texas, a fuel delivery truck driver identified as Jonathan Luevano was killed in the parking lot of a Quik Trip location. Police has arrested a suspect it located after checking the fuel station security cameras.

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