Worker dies from being trampled

Just in case anybody didn't hear about this, and I think its such a sad article, but here it is:
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A Wal-Mart worker died early Friday after an "out-of-control" mob of frenzied shoppers smashed through the Long Island store's front doors and trampled him, police said.

The Black Friday stampede plunged the Valley Stream outlet into chaos, knocking several employees to the ground and sending others scurrying atop vending machines to avoid the horde.
When the madness ended, 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour was dead and four shoppers, including a woman eight months pregnant, were injured.

CAUGHT ON CAMERA: WAL-MART CROWD MOMENTS BEFORE DEADLY STAMPEDE
"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Wal-Mart worker Jimmy Overby, 43.
"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," Overby said.

Damour, a temporary maintenance worker from Jamaica, Queens, was gasping for air as shoppers continued to surge into the store after its 5 a.m. opening, witnesses said.

Even officers who arrived to perform CPR on the trampled worker were stepped on by wild-eyed shoppers streaming inside, a cop at the scene said.
"They pushed him down and walked all over him," Damour's sobbing sister, Danielle, 41, said. "How could these people do that?
"He was such a young man with a good heart, full of life. He didn't deserve that."

Damour's sister said doctors told the family he died of a heart attack.
His cousin, Ernst Damour, called the circumstances "completely unacceptable."

"His body was a stepping bag with so much disregard for human life," Ernst Damour, 37, said. "There has to be some accountability."

Roughly 2,000 people gathered outside the Wal-Mart's doors in the predawn darkness.
Chanting "push the doors in," the crowd pressed against the glass as the clock ticked down to the 5 a.m. opening.
Sensing catastrophe, nervous employees formed a human chain inside the entrance to slow down the mass of shoppers.
It didn't work.
The mob barreled in and overwhelmed workers.
"They were jumping over the barricades and breaking down the door," said Pat Alexander, 53, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. "Everyone was screaming. You just had to keep walking on your toes to keep from falling over."

After the throng toppled Damour, his fellow employees had to fight through the crowd to help him, police said.
Witness Kimberly Cribbs said shoppers acted like "savages."
"When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, 'I've been on line since Friday morning!'" Cribbs said. "They kept shopping."

When paramedics arrived, Damour's condition was grave.

"They were pumping his chest, trying to bring him back, and there was nothing," said Dennis Smokes, 36, a Wal-Mart worker.

Damour was taken to Franklin Hospital and pronounced dead at 6:03 a.m.
Hank Mullany, president of Wal-Mart's northeast division, said the company took extraordinary safety precautions.

"We expected a large crowd this morning and added additional internal security, additional third-party security, additional store associates and we worked closely with the Nassau County police," he said in a statement.

"We also erected barricades. Despite all of our precautions, this unfortunate event occurred."
The 28-year-old pregnant woman and three other shoppers were taken to area hospitals with minor injuries, police said.

In a news conference after the incident, Nassau County police spokesman Lt. Michael Fleming described the crowd as "out of control" and the scene as "utter chaos." He said Wal-Mart did not have enough security onhand.

Fleming said criminal charges were possible but that it would be difficult to identify individual shoppers in surveillance videos.

Items on sale at the Wal-Mart store included a $798 Samsung 50-inch Plasma HDTV, a Bissel Compact Upright Vacuum for $28 and Men's Wrangler Tough Jeans for $8.
The Long Island store reopened at 1 p.m. and was packed within minutes.

"I look at these people's faces and I keep thinking one of them could have stepped on him," said one employee. "How could you take a man's life to save $20 on a TV?"

Source: www.nydailynews.com

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Wow, doesn't that make you want to just cry? I understand people were shopping for friends/family and that they were so excited, but shopping and sales is definetly NOT everything, nevertheless close to that. I mean this people weren't just excited, they were CRAZED! They were on a mission and its like nothing could come between them. But how could you be so materialistic and be so consumed in all of it to not even think about others around you, or how your acting? I mean this is as worse as it gets! One worker died from this stampede, and four others were injured, Including a eight-month pregnat woman. Do those people care about anything or anyone except for the sales and shopping? No. They were too busy worrying about getting in first to think about hurting someone else, or even killing them! What's even more horrible is that after all the shoppers were notified about Damour's death, people said things like: "I've waited so long for this day, you can't just make me leave!" and people just kept shopping, not even caring one bit. And once the police arrived, they could barely get through, people just kept knocked them down! I just think this is so sad, and boy does Damour's family need all of our prayers, including the other four injured. Its just so sad and scary that people are like this and that this horrible tragedy happened because of carelessness and selfishness, an innocent life was lost! Anyone who reads this far, please pray for the man who died, that he might be in purgatory or Heaven, and for his family, that they are guided throughout the rest of their lives without him in it. Also, anyone who would like to please post your thoughts on this tragedy....Thanks to everyone who read this far....God Bless....

Yeah i heard about that, didn't believe it at first. this is when you know that something is terribly wrong with our society, but then again weren't the shoppers shopping for someone else. i'm not saying that is a good excuse or even an excuse at all. it's still terrible.

I found that to be extremely ridiculous how none of the customers even cared to stop, but just kept shopping like nothing was wrong. I was completely shocked.

Two people also got killed at Toys R Us.. but it wasnt Black Friday related..

Really? How and where did it happen?

Lol yes to some people greed is more powerful.

I just cant believe that story...

The Toys R Us shooting took place in California somewhere.

It happens every year, the sad thing is it is not all that shocking, people were still pushing and shoving their way through while the cops and medics were trying to help him.

Oh yes they should be sued and held accountable for not having enough security. Did they expect hundreds of people to enter in a single file line?

How could people just see someone laying on the floor and trample him and the people trying to save his life? How could they even pass by? What a sick world we live in. This totally disgusts me. May all the merchandise they bought be lemons!

I know, just thinking about it makes me upset and totally disgusts me, that people could have no concern for a human life!