Wal-Mart Worker Dies in Black Friday Stampede
JOSEPH MALLIA, MATTHEW CHAYES and JONATHAN STARKEY: Hundreds of bargain-hungry shoppers stepped on a fallen Wal-Mart worker, who died Friday morning, after the crowd knocked down the store’s front doors — and the worker — during the “utter chaos” of a Black Friday shopping melee, Nassau County police said.
“A throng of shoppers … physically broke down the doors” around 5 a.m. Friday and knocked the 34-year-old part-time worker to the ground as the crowd pushed its way into the store at the Green Acres Mall, Nassau police said.
Police identified the worker as Jdimytai Damour of Jamaica, Queens. “This crowd was out of control,” said Nassau Police Det. Lt. Michael Fleming, whose squad is investigating the death. He characterized the melee as “utter chaos.”
