Less than an hour before Brandon Bradley was murdered in Lords Bank, there was an armed robbery at the "24/7 Gas Station" right at the Lords Bank Junction.
7News has obtained surveillance video of the entire robbery caught on tape. Seen here, a female gas pump attendant was on her night shift, and the video shows her waiting to serve any customer who approaches to buy fuel. Here, at around 9:39 p.m., you clearly see a man dressed, in what looks to be work clothing and a safety vest, entering the frame. He approaches the female gas station employee appearing to be a customer wanting to buy fuel.
He then quickly pulls out a handgun, points it at the female employee, and it appears that he either orders her to hand over the money bag, or he points to her indicating his intention. You clearly see where he struggles to remove it from around her neck, and just as he is about to run off, he grabs her 2 gold chains and yanks them off her neck.
As he retreats, the camera spots a second man, who appears to be his accomplice. Both men escape, and the footage shows that the female employee is clearly in distress, having just been robbed at gunpoint. She appears to be pleading with the Chinese businessmen running the store area of the gas station. They briefly lift up the shutters, but it appears that the rethink that decision and then put them back down.
There is concern from the community that the gas pump attendants, who are predominantly women employees, are exposed to danger because there is no security guard on duty to help watch over the place. The service station is but one of the enterprises owned by the mega businessman Ming Pei Chen.
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