S-W shoplifting ends in death of convenience store owner

[Sherman A1]

SEDRO-WOOLLEY — The James Market has a steady client base. Customers come in day after day, week after week to pick up a few quick items or talk to the shop’s owners, who, by all accounts, have been good to their customers.

On Friday morning, a small paper taped to the shop’s front window and a growing memorial of flowers, balloons and cards were signs that something was amiss. Today, the shop at 217 W. State St. was closed.

Some customers were confused about why and were saddened to learn that co-owner Yongmin Pak died after confronting a suspected shoplifter Thursday night.

“They were always so nice, that’s why I came here,” said


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This is why anyone who works in Retail, needs to remember that you simply do not chase shoplifters......

[Live and Learn]

1. Yes. Just put cameras up and let them go.

Most of us have had things stolen. It is annoying but certainly not worth anyone's death.

[Sherman A1]

3. SEDRO-WOOLLEY

in Washington State.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

4. Weird timing. Last night, after Rachel Maddow went off, and MSNBC switched over

to 'prison programming', I was working on something and not near the changer, so left it running as background noise. When I ddid get up to change it, the guy they were talking to was in for murder for having shoved a store clerk who had followed him outside for shoplifting a skin mag hard enough that the guy cracked his head open when he fell to the ground and died a few days later. I can't imagine dying over somebody trying to steal a magazine, much less from a single shove throwing me to the ground. Yet another reason people are damned fools to get in fights. You never know when a single fall or punch or whatever is going to wind up with one person a corpse, and the other in jail for life.