SEATTLE — 7-Eleven clerk Shivan Kalyan is working the register at a West Seattle store location the morning after his coworker was robbed on the job just hours earlier
“He took the whole thing from here, and they took the cash from this register too, and that’s what they did, and then they ran away,” Kalyan said.
It’s the second time in a day his shop has been hit by robbers in less than 24 hours. Seattle police say there have been eight robberies at this location since February of this year and that in four of those, a weapon was brandished.
Kalyan wasn’t working last night, but was on the clock Oct. 9 when a man held a gun to his head. An image of the crime was captured by a store surveillance camera and released by the Seattle Police Department.
“Yeah, we keep working. We don’t have any option. What can we do?” Shivan said.
On Oct. 11, two days after this encounter – SPD held a news conference to announce the arrests of three teenagers and one adult believed to be connected to the 7-Eleven robbery and nearly 80 crimes in total.
"This is not like a kid playing cops and robbers. These kids are very, very dangerous,” Seattle Police Department Interim Chief Sue Rahr said during the mid-October press conference.
The county promised prosecution, and Kalyan thought he was in the clear. This morning, he’s shaken, to say the least. In the meantime, they’ll stay open for business.
“Nobody is, like, trying to stop them. They keep doing it. We got robbed like the night before yesterday, so in like two days, we’ve been robbed like two times.” Kalyan continued.