Security Guard Shot Dead Protecting a 7-11 in Oakland, California

Brittany M. Hughes | December 12, 2023
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It doesn’t get a whole lot worse than this. Except in California, where stories like these happen all the time.

A security guard was shot and killed while protecting a 7-11 in Oakland last weekend. Police say 59-year-old James Johnson, a former homeless man who’d begun working at the convenience store nearly two years, was shot while trying to stop a thief from stealing merchandise around 10 p.m. Friday night. He died at the scene.

A news crew caught the harrowing moment Johnson’s daughter arrived at the store and realized her father was dead, and it's about as heartbreaking as you'd imagine.

Another store worker said the gas station had been robbed a number of times before, but that this is the first time anyone’s been killed, adding that the store’s security guards are unarmed. At the time of his death, Johnson was living nearby in a transitional facility for homeless people who are waiting for permanent housing.

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Just a week ago, another man was shot and killed while pumping gas at a different 7-11 in Oakland. That person also died at the scene.

Welcome to California - come for the sun, stay for the crime and corpses.

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