Vicious attack in a 7-Eleven leaves clerk, customer injured

FREMONT, Wash. — Surveillance video shows four men attacking a 7-Eleven clerk and a customer jumping in to try and help. Now the customer's son is seeking justice and help catching the suspects.

Both victims ended up in the hospital after the attack in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood Thursday night. Now investigators are still trying to track down the suspects.

The customer's son says he has seen one of the suspects before in Fremont and nearby Ballard.

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But he does not know his name, and is angry over what he and three other men were caught doing to the clerk and his mother.

It is easy to see just how quickly the encounter at the front door of the Fremont 7-Eleven went bad. Within seconds, the clerk and customer Baljinder Kaur were being pummeled by four young men.

"So when she saw the two people hitting one person," said Deep Singh, Kaur's son.  "They were hitting him on the head and he trying to close the door."

Kaur's son spoke with KIRO 7 Saturday afternoon as she quietly listened nearby.  He says once the fighting started, two men who were sitting in a car ran into the store and started throwing punches, too.

"And they start punching her on the face and everything," he said. "Yeah, and my mother and the clerk. She was brave. Like she's trying to stop them, with the four people."

He says his 55-year-old mother continued to fight even after the clerk was knocked unconscious. Singh said it isn't really his mother's personality to jump into a fight.

"No, not the personality," he said. "But the thing she see like you know she trying to stop, right. Don't hit one person."

But both she and the clerk were injured. Singh also sent KIRO 7 a photograph of the cut to the clerk's head and her injures.

His mother's lip was swollen and her right ear hurt, too.  Kaur's injuries are no longer visible, but her son says her right shoulder was dislocated in the melee.

He is so angry he is sharing photos of the men, including one of them man he says he has seen before.

"He's like maybe 18," he said.

He is talking, he says, so the suspects will be caught.

"We want to get this stopped because we want to get them punished," he said, "so everybody can see."

Singh said his mother is in so much pain, he planned to take her to the hospital Saturday night.

He is asking anyone who knows the men involved in the attack to call 911.

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