Shocking video captures North Carolina store clerk, 68, using a stick to beat a 56-year-old customer who was having a seizure
This is the disturbing moment a convenience store worker was caught on video beating a man who was having a seizure inside a store in North Carolina.
Sobhi Hassan, 68, repeatedly hit Gregory Evans, 56, with a stick moments after the man started convulsing at the Princess Market convenience store in Rocky Mount last Wednesday, according to cellphone footage acquired by NBC affiliate WRAL-TV.
Hassan was taken into custody Tuesday by the Rocky Mount Police Department, but only after the station came forward and shared the video of the attack.
Hassan, whose family owns the convenience store, has been charged with simple attack.
DailyMail.com reached out to the Rocky Mount Police Department for comment.
Convenience store clerk Sobhi Hassan was arrested Tuesday in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, after police received video footage that showed the moment he beat a 56-year-old man identified as Gregory Evans while he was having a seizure inside the shop last Wednesday. The 68-year-old Hassan was charged with simple assault
Still image of a cellphone video obtained by NBC affiliate station WRAL-TV shows Sobhi Hassan attacking Gregory Evans with a stick as he was having a seizure inside the store where Hassan works
The shocking video shows Evans, who is black, standing in the middle of the shop as Hassan struck him six times on the legs.
Hassan could be heard telling Evans, 'Get out now,' before he leaned against the store counter.
Evans was hospitalized following the incident and was still undergoing additional medical tests.
'He's a little slow,' Evans' sister Edith Cooper said during a community meeting at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on Monday. 'And he still doesn't have full mobility of his body at this time.'
Hassan repeatedly asked Evans to exit the store while he was experiencing a convulsion inside the shop
Neighborhood residents have gathered outside the Princess Market to call on local leaders to shut down the business.
'The video was horrible to look at, to see a person treated less than a human being,' local resident Bronson Williams told WRAL-TV.
Some residents claimed that Princess Market store workers have treated customers 'in a negative and discriminatory way.'
The Rocky Mountain police are investigating but have not said whether this was a hate crime.
'This community is lacking banking activity, this community is lacking a pharmacy, this community is lacking educational opportunities as well, so there's so much that could really go on here,' Williams said.
'We've got to restore value back here in this community, so that people can know that they do matter.'
Authorities are investigating the incident, but have not said whether it is a hate crime.
“I only ask the community: Please remain calm and let the police department conclude this investigation — and we will take the necessary actions that needs to be taken, in lockstep with our District Attorney’s Office, to make sure that we have a solid case if there is one to be brought,” Police chief Robert Hassell said, according to the Rocky Mount Telegram.
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