Police officers in San Leandro, Calif., collect evidence after a
shooting outside a Wal-Mart left one Black Friday shopper critically
injured.
A Black Friday shopper who collapsed at a West Virginia shopping center
— and later died — went virtually unnoticed by others racing to snatch
up early-bird sales.
Walter Vance,
61, of Logan County, W. Va., was shopping for Christmas decorations
around 12:15 a.m. at a Target in South Charleston, W. Va., when he got
sick and fell to floor, local news station WSAZ reported.
Witnesses said shoppers continued walking around the store, some even stepping over the man's body.
An emergency room nurse who was among those shopping eventually found Vance and began administering CPR. She was assisted by an off-duty paramedic who was also at the store.
An ambulance was called and Vance was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died, the news station reported.
Friends said, Vance, who was the owner of a Aracome Drug Company store
in Chapmanville, had heart problems for years and underwent open heart
surgery in 2000.
But the way he died outraged friends.
"Where is the good Samaritan side of people?" Vance's co-worker Sue Compton
told WSAZ. "How could you not notice someone was in trouble? I just
don't understand if people didn't help what their reason was, other than
greed because of a sale."
It wasn't the only tragedy to strike on Black Friday.
The shopping day took a chaotic turn for the worse at a Walmart in
Porter Ranch, Calif., where a woman pepper sprayed a crowd of shoppers
waiting to get their hands on a display of discounted X-box 360 game
sets.
The woman eventually surrendered to police.
There were also reports of gun shots fired at a mall in Fayetteville,
N.C., and a shooting outside a store in San Leandro, Calif., that left
one shopper critically injured, the Associated Press reported.
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