Burglars hit store closed to honor slain clerk

Authorities are looking for the people who broke into a Macon convenience store that was closed Thursday to honor the memory of a slain clerk.

Bibb County sheriff’s deputies were called to the Gary Food Mart on Bloomfield Drive after its alarm sounded just before 5:45 a.m., according to The Telegraph. Robbers pried open the back door and tried to rob the place hours after hundreds of people gathered at the store for a candlelight vigil, officials said.

The store was closed for the funeral of Prakash Patel, a 40-year-old father who was shot five times and killed during an armed robbery Saturday, the newspaper reported.