Save this one for those "Give them what they want and they won't hurt you" types.
Tell me again that citizens don't need CCW.
http://www.injersey.com/news/c-n/story/0,2111,285457,00.html
Man killed in Bernards holdup
from the Courier News
By TONY SCLAFANI and TOM EVANS
Staff Writers
BERNARDS -- A 31-year-old King George Road gas station attendant died after being shot in the head in a robbery Thursday night, authorities said.
Joseph H. Sass, 30, of Phillipsburg died at Morristown Memorial Hospital shortly after the 9:30 p.m. shooting at the King George Exxon on King George Road, near Interstate 78, Prosecutor Wayne J. Forrest said.
The incident began when a black man in a light green van pulled up near the station, walked into the building and asked the attendant for some change, Forrest said. After getting the change, the man pulled a gun and demanded all the employee`s money, then shot him in the head, the prosecutor said. The amount of money stolen has not been determined, Forrest said.
One shell casing from a semiautomatic weapon was recovered, the prosecutor said.
Witnesses told authorities the man got back into the passenger`s seat, and the van took off onto I-78 West, Forrest said. "We believe there was a getaway driver," Forrest said.
A countywide alarm was ordered and state police were called in to help, Forrest said. The prosecutor`s office sent its major crimes unit to the scene and a detective was en route to the hospital, Forrest said.
At the gas station, at least a half-dozen police cars were parked haphazardly in the lot. The door to the station stood wide open, with medical rescue equipment strewn on the floor where emergency services personnel had left it when they rushed Sass to the hospital.
Capt. Robert Kompf of Bernards police said there were witnesses to the shooting.
Yellow crime scene tape cordoned off the four gas tanks, one garage door and the building. A police photographer took photographs of the scene.
It was the second slaying this year in Somerset County. In January, police said, an 18- year-old man from Franklin, Somerset County, was beaten to death with a claw hammer before his body was incinerated in a Plainfield trash bin. Neil M. Lorber of Long Hill, a regular customer on his way home, stopped by to find out why police cars were parked at the gas station. Lorber said he was shocked to see so much activity at the usually quiet station.
"I`m usually here at night," he said while standing on a patch of grass beyond the yellow caution tape. "I get mechanic work here."
Lorber, who knows the owner of the station, said they have discussed the potential consequences of staying open 24 hours.
"We`ve discussed the danger of working at night," he said "I guess it always was a concern."
Crew members from the Liberty Corner Rescue Squad who answered the call later returned to the gas station to pick up their own cars.
Copyright 1997-2000 IN Jersey.
Tell me again that citizens don't need CCW.
http://www.injersey.com/news/c-n/story/0,2111,285457,00.html
Man killed in Bernards holdup
from the Courier News
By TONY SCLAFANI and TOM EVANS
Staff Writers
BERNARDS -- A 31-year-old King George Road gas station attendant died after being shot in the head in a robbery Thursday night, authorities said.
Joseph H. Sass, 30, of Phillipsburg died at Morristown Memorial Hospital shortly after the 9:30 p.m. shooting at the King George Exxon on King George Road, near Interstate 78, Prosecutor Wayne J. Forrest said.
The incident began when a black man in a light green van pulled up near the station, walked into the building and asked the attendant for some change, Forrest said. After getting the change, the man pulled a gun and demanded all the employee`s money, then shot him in the head, the prosecutor said. The amount of money stolen has not been determined, Forrest said.
One shell casing from a semiautomatic weapon was recovered, the prosecutor said.
Witnesses told authorities the man got back into the passenger`s seat, and the van took off onto I-78 West, Forrest said. "We believe there was a getaway driver," Forrest said.
A countywide alarm was ordered and state police were called in to help, Forrest said. The prosecutor`s office sent its major crimes unit to the scene and a detective was en route to the hospital, Forrest said.
At the gas station, at least a half-dozen police cars were parked haphazardly in the lot. The door to the station stood wide open, with medical rescue equipment strewn on the floor where emergency services personnel had left it when they rushed Sass to the hospital.
Capt. Robert Kompf of Bernards police said there were witnesses to the shooting.
Yellow crime scene tape cordoned off the four gas tanks, one garage door and the building. A police photographer took photographs of the scene.
It was the second slaying this year in Somerset County. In January, police said, an 18- year-old man from Franklin, Somerset County, was beaten to death with a claw hammer before his body was incinerated in a Plainfield trash bin. Neil M. Lorber of Long Hill, a regular customer on his way home, stopped by to find out why police cars were parked at the gas station. Lorber said he was shocked to see so much activity at the usually quiet station.
"I`m usually here at night," he said while standing on a patch of grass beyond the yellow caution tape. "I get mechanic work here."
Lorber, who knows the owner of the station, said they have discussed the potential consequences of staying open 24 hours.
"We`ve discussed the danger of working at night," he said "I guess it always was a concern."
Crew members from the Liberty Corner Rescue Squad who answered the call later returned to the gas station to pick up their own cars.
Copyright 1997-2000 IN Jersey.