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Bastards keep killing our guys in liquor stores......

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Customers offer condolences in City Heights a week later By David E. Graham UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER July 22, 2005 Photo: http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050722/images/open220.jpg Doraid Toma, 35, was gunned down July 13 while on a sales stop at the T&M Liquor store in City Heights. Toma was buried Tuesday. His killer remains at large. "Glad to see you guys back," Noemi Madrigal, a City Heights resident, told a clerk yesterday at T&M Liquor. The popular convenience market on El Cajon Boulevard reopened a week after a gunman walked inside and with no apparent warning shot and killed a salesman July 13. Yesterday, the store again teemed with customers, most offering condolences, handshakes and well-wishes. Madrigal, a frequent shopper, was greeting the clerk who also worked the afternoon of the shooting. He wore a flak jacket yesterday under his shirt, however. The killer has not been arrested. "This is my community and my neighborhood," the clerk said calmly. "Twenty years I've done this job. They're not going to scare me." He said he was happy about reopening, while sad at having lost a good friend that day. The clerk, an Iraqi Chaldean who immigrated in 1985, declined to give his name because he does not want to jeopardize his five children. Last week, a man wearing a black hooded sweat shirt entered the store about 4:45 p.m. and shot and killed Doraid Toma, 35, a salesman of candy, batteries and tobacco. The man fired at the clerk, too, but he ducked behind the counter. Toma, a member of the local Chaldean community, was buried Tuesday, and the store reopened Wednesday. San Diego police detectives said yesterday that rewards totaling $10,000 remain. Asked if he feels safe for his workers and customers while the shooter remains free, the store's owner, Ramzi Salem, said, "It would be more relaxing if we could put this person behind bars." Salem said he is heartened by the community's response. Two dozen cards left outside when the store was closed are posted on a wall above condolence bouquets of flowers. The store, which also sells many basic groceries, including some produce and eggs and home-cleaning and personal-care products, is a routine stop for many, a place where clerks easily switch from speaking English, Spanish or Arabic. "After 22 years of building relationships, it pays off," Salem said of the well-wishers and customers. "I wish it could be under different circumstances." He said he also is buoyed by police detectives' efforts and offers of additional assistance now that the store has reopened. But Salem declined to talk about investigators' plans. Advertisement Investigators said hours after the slaying that they believe the assailant may be the same man who tried to rob the store the previous night. He had his shotgun wrested from him by two T&M clerks, leading police to believe the killing might have been motivated by revenge. Investigators said the shooter also might be the same man in a dark hooded sweat shirt who robbed a different liquor store, a video store and a market this month. James Tulumello, the San Diego police liaison officer for City Heights, said at a meeting last night of the Teralta West Neighborhood Alliance, which Salem attended, that police have leads, adding, "We're going to get him." Tulumello declined to discuss specifics of the police efforts. He told the gathering of the department's interest even before the shooting in installing surveillance cameras along a stretch of El Cajon Boulevard. In the store yesterday afternoon, eight days to the hour of the shooting, customers seemed comfortable, buying soft drinks, cigarettes and liquor or getting a check cashed. Madrigal, who was shopping with a friend's two small children, said she feels safe with people milling about. A second clerk manned the register, and men were stocking shelves. Even with the shooting, Salem said he is committed to his store. He imagines it as evolving to meet the interests of a community that gradually is becoming more affluent. Noting a wall of alcohol selections that include upscale wines, even champagne, he said he was considering adding a section of hot, prepared foods. --------------------- - BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

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