“They kept shopping”

“When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, ‘I’ve been on line since yesterday morning,’ ” Ms. Cribbs told The Associated Press. “They kept shopping.”

Jdimytai Damour died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-mart store on Friday morning, police and witnesses said. The 34-year-old employee, a temporary maintenance worker, was rushed by the chaotic crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m. Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him.

Here is the full article from the New York Times (November 29, 2008) by Robert D. McFadden and Angela Macropoulos
Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death: A crush of shoppers tore down the front doors and thronged into a store in suburban New York, killing a temporary employee.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/business/29walmart.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink