Police said Tuesday that a Las Vegas smoke shop worker was arrested on a murder charge for fatally shooting an unarmed 13-year-old who ran into the shop to steal items last week.
(FOX)- Clerk Raad Sunna, 24, was arrested Monday night after police reviewed surveillance video from inside the smoke shop recorded during the Friday shooting and determined the man’s life was not in danger, according to Lt. Dan McGrath.
McGrath, speaking at a Tuesday news conference, said 13-year-old Fabriccio Patti and two other teens, ages 14 and 15, were unarmed but wearing masks when they ran inside the Lucky Cigars and Smokes shop in West Las Vegas.
The three teens came nowhere near Sunna, who was by a cash register, police said.
McGrath said he didn’t know exactly how far away the teens were but they were “not even close” to the armed clerk as they tried to grab several items.
McGrath said Sunna fired eight or nine times, hitting the youngest boy multiple times. The boy later died at a hospital.