Robin Raven

34-year-old Jdimytai Damour was killed in a stampede on Friday morning in Valley Stream, New York. Sadly, it was a stampede of people at the Wal-Mart where he worked. Yes, customers were that eager to save a buck. It’s insanity.

People were still storming through as emergency technicians rushed to save the man’s life. Another employee was trampled, but he fought people off his back–literally–to get up. A pregnant customer was trampled and suffered a miscarriage, according to “National Post.” Three other customers were allegedly trampled, but they survived.

Very few customers even stopped to try to help the victims. Greedy customers, instead, rushed past the medical personnel as they tried to revive the man who was trampled upon by about 200 people. Some refused to leave the store after the man’s death, citing that they had been waiting for the sales. They simply continued shopping.

Damour’s co-worker, Jimmy Overby, said of the shoppers, “They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down, too … I didn’t know if I was going to live through it. I literally had to fight people off my back.”

I am heartbroken that such cold-hearted thinking and actions have occurred today.