Two people were hospitalised after being stabbed in a New Jersey JCPenney — and the store didn’t clean up the blood before letting shoppers return
Violent crime is increasingly becoming an issue for retailers in the US
By Kate Taylor
Two people were seriously injured in a brawl at a JCPenney in a New Jersey mall this weekend — and it looks like shoppers were allowed to return to browse with blood still on the floor.
Shoppers witnessed a large group of people fighting in Newport Centre Mall in Jersey City on Saturday night, NBC reports. Two young adults were hospitalised for non-life threatening injuries after being stabbed, police said.
The aftermath of the fight are apparent in footage from the JCPenney, with merchandise strewn around the store and blood on the floor in the bedding department.
Bizarrely, CBS 2 reports that shoppers were allowed to return to the JCPenney before the crime scene was cleaned up. Footage shows shoppers walking around on floors covered in splattered blood.