Customers walk over dead body after Michigan man killed in store doorway

[FrodosPet]

The mother of a Michigan man shot and killed in front of a Michigan store was outraged to learn that customers continued to walk over his body for about five minutes before anyone called for help.

Jackel Wright told WWMT-TV that she recently learned of footage from a security camera inside the Quick Stop store in Kalamazoo that shows the moment her son, Jheryl Wright, was gunned down as he walked out the door in September 2012.

But after the 24-year-old man collapsed, several customers continued to walk in and out of the store — stepping over the wounded man’s body to get through the door.

“When they told me people were still coming in that gas station, stepping over my child in the doorway, I couldn’t believe it,” the teary-eyed mother told the news station.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/customers-walk-dead-body-michigan-man-killed-store-doorway-article-1.1564163



This culture of self-absorption is just ridiculous, verging on evil.

[exboyfil]

1. Verging?

We are full tilt past that point. We have forgotten what it means to be human.

[newfie11]

2. How on earth can people do that

Do they see people laying in door ways after being shot so often that it means nothing.

[FreakinDJ]

10. I saw similar overseas during the 70s

Thought it was just because I was in a "War Torn 3rd World Country" - silly me

[newfie11]

15. 3 world country, we just might be headed that way

[FreakinDJ]

16. As Fast as the Ruling Wealthy Elite 1% can take us there

[Drahthaardogs]

11. Maybe they just wanted to get out of there and not get involved?

Seeing someone get shot is pretty scary stuff.

[newfie11]

14. I can understand people running out

But there were people walking over him to get in.
Strange.

[fadedrose]

24. involved? Maybe shot....

[democratisphere]

3. We are becoming a nation without a soul.

Pathetic.

[riversedge]

4. The clerk did

nothing--and eventually a customer called 911.



.............The shocking clip — which was released during the trial of Clarence Ross, who was convicted last week of Wright’s murder — also shows the clerk continue to deal with customers even after he glances down at Wright’s body.

“How can you step over someone laying in the doorway and not help?” Jackel Wright said. “How would they feel if that was one of their loved ones sitting there?”


Wright’s body was sprawled on the floor for about five minutes until a customer finally realized something was terribly wrong and called 911 on his cellphone.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/customers-walk-dead-body-michigan-man-killed-store-doorway-article-1.1564163#ixzz2pKNajt7Z

[Hekate]

5. Kitty Genovese, 1964....

Yes, how could they?

[Katashi_itto]

6. Oh please, seen that behaviour in New York a number of times.

[Hekate]

7. It's called the Bystander Effect, I think. It's why 38 people watched from their windows while...

... Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death in the street. Sometimes human nature is a bitch

[Katashi_itto]

8. There you go, thanks! I didnt know it had a name!

[Nevernose]

20. To be fair to New Yorkers

Lots and lots of people called the police on Kitty's behalf. The police were to goddamned lazy to look for her. The poor woman's become the poster child for Bystander Effect, when in reality she was an example of incompetent policing.

At least that's my interpretation of it.

[Hekate]

25. Still, to those of us who were sentient at the time, it remains one of those seminal events...

... of horror.

[Blue_Tires]

29. Possibly

or maybe this happened in the type of neighborhood where "nobody ever sees nuttin'"

[bettyellen]

19. how many dead bodies did you see laying in the street in NYC?

yeah, I thought so.

[KittyWampus]

33. In NYC one sees people passed out drunk, propped up on buildings etc.

And in some neighborhoods, one doesn't say anything to the cops/authorities.

That said, what a sad story.

[LiberalElite]

36. In the 1990's

lower east side, NYC I was waiting for a bus and there was a fender-bender apparently involving a truck and a taxi on one of the main streets (Houston St.). I heard but didn't see it happen. I did subsequent witness some men wielding baseball bats, etc. get out of the truck behind the cab and start damaging the cab. I tried to find a phone to call the cops (no cell phone then) in one of the businesses nearby but was rebuffed repeatedly. No one wanted to be involved and that's how it is in some neighborhoods and some ethnic groups. I finally found a phone booth and reported it to 911 operator. I'm a New Yorker and I can't just stand by and let mayhem happen.
P.S. The police did show up shortly and defused the situation.

[bettyellen]

37. if someone is seen to stumble and get hurt, loads of people generally rush to help… if someone seems

to be doing the public drunk thing, we do tend to leave them alone. generally they do not want the cops, and the cops don't want to do anything about it. only wealthy people bitch about that kind of stuff and call the cops.
when I took a bad spill in the bronx, almost hit by a truck, four people rushed over to help immediately. one stayed with me for ten minutes till they were sure I could manage. god knows the years I went up trying to take my mom on outings and doctors appointments, strangers helped me every single time I struggled with the wheelchair, or getting across streets and helping her get in the car. NYers are generally not shy at all in helping when they see there is a need and they can do something to help. they're not as wary or scared of strangers as most of the country tends to be.

[Festivito]

9. I can imagine he would have looked like a hapless drunk.

The gunshot mistaken for a car backfire.

If it happens in summer one might let him sleep it off. Wouldn't think it a gunshot situation.

Are we really more concerned about mistaking a situation rather than trying to understand what makes life so cheap that he was shot in the first place?

[Egalitarian Thug]

12. Verging? n/t

[kcr]

13. I think it's much more likely they didn't realize he was dead

They thought they were stepping over someone passed out in the doorway.

[FrodosPet]

17. Drunk or dead, it should not matter

You don't step over people like they are not even there. Nowadays, almost everyone has a cell phone. So even if you don't have one yourself, someone does.

[kcr]

18. I think if we're going to gin up outrage and shame people publicly

we should get it right. I think it does matter whether you're stepping over a dead body or someone passed out drunk. I think there is a big difference, actually.

[maxsolomon]

22. I usually walk around them, not over

but I see passed-out drunks or sleeping homeless on the street every single day.

[arcane1]

28. Same here, though I've never seen one in a doorway like that

With the door hitting them every time it opens and closes.

Crazy.

[JoeyT]

32. The door is closing on him. Thinking he was passed out makes it *worse*.

Because if he's dead, you can't help him. If he's passed out the door could seriously injure him closing on him over and over.

Besides, the clerk that saw him shot knew he was dead.

[kcr]

34. The clerk walked over him, too?

I didn't see that in the tape. In fact, I don't see the clerk at all. You're free to think walking over a passed out person is worse if you want to, of course.

[NCTraveler]

21. So glad that crap like this is extremely rare in the US.

I have seen so many of my friends go far out of their way to help people in distress. What kind of animals do something like this?

[polly7]

23. That just makes me ill. nt

[ZombieHorde]

26. Shock? nt

[Blue Owl]

27. Just following GWB's call to national responsibility

Now get out there and shop, you pinko commies. Money trumps decency.

[gopiscrap]

30. I thought some states had laws where

you had to call if you saw some one in a life threatening situation and then you also couldn't get sued if you helped.

[nadinbrzezinski]

31. I am not surprised actually

It is shocking, but just one more sign of how low we have gone as a society. But it sadly does not surprise me. People are way too self absorbed and into their own life to care anymore.

[treestar]

35. That is really strange

Given where he was laying, you would think someone would start looking into it well before that.