Home Depot employee fatally shot while confronting alleged shoplifter
A 26-year-old Home Depot employee was fatally shot after confronting an alleged shoplifter armed with a handgun at a California store, authorities said. A 26-year-old Home Depot employee was fatally shot after confronting an alleged shoplifter armed with a handgun at a California store, authorities said. The suspected shooter was detained along with an alleged accomplice after fleeing the scene in a getaway car, police said. The shooting occurred around 2:15 p.m. Tuesday inside a Home Depot in Pleasanton, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Police respond to a shooting at a Home Depot in Pleasanton, California, April 18, 2023. KGO Blake Mohs, an unarmed loss prevention employee, "attempted to stop a theft in progress when a struggle ensued," the Pleasanton Police Department said in a statement. The female suspect was allegedly trying to leave the store with what was believed to be an electrical item when she "resisted and shot him," police said. Mohs later die...