Los Angeles Rite Aid worker killed trying to stop shoplifter: police

An employee at a Los Angeles Rite Aid was killed Wednesday while attempting to stop a shoplifter from leaving the store, police said, as a series of brazen retail thefts have gone viral in recent months across the country. 

The employee, identified by the Los Angeles Police Department as a man in his 20s, confronted the gunman and another suspect around 8:45 p.m. at a Rite Aid location in the Glassell Park neighborhood.  The suspects were trying to exit the store with stolen items at the time and one of them opened fire, the LAPD told Fox News.