During the fight, the store employee's head catches fire, and he runs off camera while...
Appian Food and Liquor in El Sobrante. A store clerk at the East Bay mart was set on fire during an alleged shoplifting incident on Sept. 22.shows the clerk, identified only as Suraj, grappling with a man in Appian Food and Liquor in El Sobrante on Sept. 22. During the fight, Suraj's head catches fire, and he runs off camera while others confront the attacker.
In an interview with the outlet, Suraj said another employee alerted him to the suspected shoplifter. Suraj said the employee told him that the man had stolen lighter fluid from the store earlier in the day. When Suraj confronted the man, he said the man splashed lighter fluid on his face and set him alight."He just splashed lighter fluid on my face, and I was so scared that moment," Suraj, speaking from a hospital bed, told CBS Bay Area.
CBS Bay Area reported that Suraj has been hospitalized since Sept. 22 and will need "several" surgeries to repair the second- and third-degree burns on his face, neck, chest and shoulder. The outlet also reported that deputies with the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office arrested a 38-year-old man in connection with the attack, and said he is being held without bail on charges including assault with a deadly weapon, battery, arson and robbery.
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