A 7-Eleven employee who was expecting to have an average day at work lost her life after a harrowing incident took place which no one saw coming.
The work place issue really escalated and ended up having fatal consequences.
Keep reading to learn more.
24-year-old Jessica McLaughlin was headed to her job at 7-Eleven for just another day at work. However, she was allegedly attacked by a female manager at her store in California, which lead to fatal consequences.
The manager was accused of pulling Jessica’s hair and sitting down on her body with her entire body weight, according to the deceased’s family.
“She held her down, sat on top of her, and didn’t let her breathe,” Sean McLaughlin, Jessica’s brother, says in the description for the GoFundMe page the family has set up in wake of the tragedy.
Sean went on: “While some coworkers tried to help and stop it, they were attacked too. When she finally got free, she collapsed. She wasn’t breathing.”
Sean went on to detail that when some of Jessica’s colleagues attempted to give her CPR, the unidentified manager ‘ran to the back room to try and delete the security footage’. The family allege, the manager then fled the scene on a bike.
Jessica died on July 2, Wednesday, soon after she was taken off life support.
Sean went on to write about the entire incident, “She has been kept alive on machines for the past couple of days. For all of these days, her mom Jasmine, her dad Clancey, our brother Anthony, step dad Albert, faithful boyfriend Adrian, sister Linda and I — along with so many friends and family — stayed by her side, hoping, praying for some kind of miracle.
“But the damage from the lack of oxygen was too much. Her brain had stopped functioning. After getting second opinions and doing everything we could, we have to make the impossible decision to let her go.”
Police in the Los Angeles area have confirmed that they were dispatched to the store and found Jessica unconscious on the floor when they arrived on the scene.
“Preliminary information indicated that two women became involved in a verbal dispute inside the business that escalated into a physical confrontation,” an LAPD release read.
“Investigators have obtained video evidence of the incident but are not releasing it at this time,” it clarified.
According to another news outlet, the police are launcing a homicide investigation following Jessica’s death earlier this week. No arrests have been made at the time of publication.
7-Eleven has said they are fully going to cooperate with law enforcement.
