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.

A deputy was able to capture one of the men involved in the robbery, but two others escaped.

The Bibb sheriff’s office is continuing the search for them and for the people responsible for killing Patel. Anyone with information about either crime is urged to call the sheriff’s office at 478-751-7500 or forward an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers at 478-742-2330.

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