An incident erupted at Jensen's Liquor Store in West Little River when an employee was critically injured after a thief shot him over a bottle. According to NBC Miami, Emmanuel Taylor was working at the store Thursday night when a man attempted to leave with a bottle of liquor after being denied a refund.
The surveillance footage, as released by the Miami-Dade Police, shows Taylor trying to patiently deal with the customer before it all turned violent. Taylor being shot in the abdomen—an incident caught alarmingly on camera. In the wake of the crime, Rashad Taylor visited his uncle in the hospital, "You expect to lose family members at a certain point because of old age or something like that but to hear that one of your family members may have been shot for what amounts to a $20 bottle of liquor, it's not supposed to happen that way,” Rashad Taylor told NBC Miami in an interview.
The authorities have now turned to the public for assistance, requesting any information that could lead to the arrest of the armed and dangerous suspect. Taylor is in critical but stable condition, reports CBS News Miami.
"He doesn't have to work, but he goes there because he enjoys the customers, he enjoys the employees, he loves his family,” Rashad Taylor said in a statement obtained by NBC Miami. Following the attack, store surveillance video shows the suspect, after shooting Taylor, escape on a blue bike with the stolen liquor bottle in hand.
"To resort to trying to take someone's life for what amounts to 5 to 10 minutes of what I can only call being inconvenienced maybe, I have no words,” said Rashad Taylor, Anyone with any information on this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
