One dead, 2 arrested in robbery at LR mall
Posted: March 2, 2013 at 5:08 a.m.
Shoppers come and go Friday at Park Plaza mall, where an after-hours robbery and shooting on Thursday left one food-court restaurant employee dead and another in critical condition. Police arrested two suspects within hours of the shooting.
Layth Qassas had just finished closing out his register at the Quiznos in Park Plaza mall Thursday night when he and his girlfriend heard several loud bangs, followed about two minutes later by a cry for help that seemed to be coming from behind the Sbarro counter on the opposite side of the mall’s food court.
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