<p>Washington: A 36-year-old Indian-origin man has been shot and killed after a teenage boy robbed a convenience store in the US state of North Carolina, authorities said.</p><p>Mainank Patel, the owner of the Tobacco House store at 2580 Airport Road, died after the shooting on Tuesday morning, the Salisbury Post reported.</p><p>A juvenile male is in custody for the crime, according to Rowan County Sheriff’s Office. Because the young man is a juvenile, deputies are not able to release his name.</p><p>The juvenile was arrested Tuesday evening but no additional details have been released.</p><p>Deputies initially responded to the Tobacco House convenience store in response to a 911 hang-up call, said Captain Mark McDaniel, public information officer for the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office.</p><p>While they were en route to the location, communications were received that there had been a shooting. When the deputies arrived on scene they found Patel suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, said McDaniel.</p><p>The victim was taken to Novant Health Rowan Medical Center and then transported to Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, where he died as a result of his injuries, the report added.</p><p>A security video showed a tall, slender white male running across the store parking lot away from the building. He was wearing black shorts, a black hoodie, a black ski mask and white Nike tennis shoes with burgundy logos, and appeared to have a black handgun in his hand, said McDaniel.</p>.History sheeter shot at, nabbed by police in Chennai.<p>McDaniel said that the sheriff’s office is not certain of the motive in the shooting, but that it currently appears to have been a robbery. No one else was injured.</p><p>Patel leaves behind his seven-and-a-half-month pregnant wife, Ami, and their 5-year-old daughter.</p><p>Customers and workers say Patel would do just about anything for anybody, and the community is in mourning over his death.</p><p>Everyone called him “Mike.”</p><p>And it’s evident by all the flowers and cards outside his store, Tobacco House, Wednesday that he was loved.</p><p>“It hit everybody because this was a family, this was a community family store,” said Ann Ellis, a customer.</p><p>Javier Lopez has been cutting the grass at the store for years, even before Patel took over from his cousin, Lopez said, and the Patel family “treated everyone like family.</p><p>I just saw him yesterday morning, and on my way home from work, I saw the police and stopped to see what had happened.</p><p>“There are just no words to describe how great a guy Mike was,” he continued.</p><p>“He was a super good man, good to his customers, loved his family and would have helped anyone,” said Patricia Howard, another regular customer at the store.</p>
<p>Washington: A 36-year-old Indian-origin man has been shot and killed after a teenage boy robbed a convenience store in the US state of North Carolina, authorities said.</p><p>Mainank Patel, the owner of the Tobacco House store at 2580 Airport Road, died after the shooting on Tuesday morning, the Salisbury Post reported.</p><p>A juvenile male is in custody for the crime, according to Rowan County Sheriff’s Office. Because the young man is a juvenile, deputies are not able to release his name.</p><p>The juvenile was arrested Tuesday evening but no additional details have been released.</p><p>Deputies initially responded to the Tobacco House convenience store in response to a 911 hang-up call, said Captain Mark McDaniel, public information officer for the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office.</p><p>While they were en route to the location, communications were received that there had been a shooting. When the deputies arrived on scene they found Patel suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, said McDaniel.</p><p>The victim was taken to Novant Health Rowan Medical Center and then transported to Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, where he died as a result of his injuries, the report added.</p><p>A security video showed a tall, slender white male running across the store parking lot away from the building. He was wearing black shorts, a black hoodie, a black ski mask and white Nike tennis shoes with burgundy logos, and appeared to have a black handgun in his hand, said McDaniel.</p>.History sheeter shot at, nabbed by police in Chennai.<p>McDaniel said that the sheriff’s office is not certain of the motive in the shooting, but that it currently appears to have been a robbery. No one else was injured.</p><p>Patel leaves behind his seven-and-a-half-month pregnant wife, Ami, and their 5-year-old daughter.</p><p>Customers and workers say Patel would do just about anything for anybody, and the community is in mourning over his death.</p><p>Everyone called him “Mike.”</p><p>And it’s evident by all the flowers and cards outside his store, Tobacco House, Wednesday that he was loved.</p><p>“It hit everybody because this was a family, this was a community family store,” said Ann Ellis, a customer.</p><p>Javier Lopez has been cutting the grass at the store for years, even before Patel took over from his cousin, Lopez said, and the Patel family “treated everyone like family.</p><p>I just saw him yesterday morning, and on my way home from work, I saw the police and stopped to see what had happened.</p><p>“There are just no words to describe how great a guy Mike was,” he continued.</p><p>“He was a super good man, good to his customers, loved his family and would have helped anyone,” said Patricia Howard, another regular customer at the store.</p>