Heartless thief swipes cash from liquor store while employee suffers fatal heart attack

A heartless thief posing as a good Samaritan stole nearly a thousand dollars from a Portland liquor store while an employee was suffering from a fatal heart attack.Jason Hay, 53, died a week after going into cardiac arrest and collapsing behind the counter while working at Bins & Barrels southeast of downtown Portland on Oct.25.While another employee and customers raced to help Hay, one man took advantage of the emergency and began stealing from the store, KGW reported.Acting as though he was checking Hay’s pulse, the unidentified thief patted the indisposed employee, searching for a wallet.The other employee called out to the customers to grab Hay’s bag before he was placed in an ambulance, and then the thief took the time to rush to the back room of the store and begin his robbery.The man, wearing a black jacket and red hoodie, stuffed bags of cash down his pants from the store’s safe that was left open, according to surveillance footage obtained by the outlet.“This man used that to run into the back office and search the back office, looking for anything he could sell.

He found my laptop bag,” store manager Michelle Maurer told KGW before revealing the thief found the open change safe.The inconsiderate raider plundered approximately $800 from the store and escaped before anyone noticed.Store employees didn’t realize they had been robbed until the next day.“It wasn’t until I went to get change the next day that I found the bank bags missing, checked the cameras, and found out that we were hit during this event,” Maurer told the outlet.“When I saw the video, I was heartbroken.I couldn’t believe that somebody could do that to this establishment, to my brother, while he was fighting for his life,” Hay’s sister, Jessica Jones, told KGW.Hay died in the ICU a week after his heart attack, his family announced.“It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share that Jason passed away peacefully at 7 a.m.

this morning,” his relatives wrote ...