Woman left to die on shop floor

From correspondents in Wichita, Kansas
July 04, 2007 08:49am


Five shoppers step over stabbing victim
One stops to take photo on mobile phone
Woman later dies in hospital of wounds

SHOPPERS in a US convenience store stepped over a woman dying from stab wounds with one stopping only to take a picture on a mobile phone.
The incident captured on surveillance video in a Kansas convenience store on June 23 of this year shows 27-year-old LaShanda Calloway lying bleeding after being stabbed in a robbery that she was innocently caught up in, AP reports.
It took about two minutes for someone to call police to report the crime while five shoppers stepped over the prone woman, police said.
After finally being attended to Ms Calloway died at a hospital from her injuries.
Police at this stage have refused to release the video, saying it is part of their investigation.
"It was tragic to watch," police spokesman Gordon Bassham said.
"The fact that people were more interested in taking a picture with a cell phone and shopping for snacks rather than helping this innocent young woman is, frankly, revolting."
"The lack of concern for humanity over this young woman's life is deeply troubling," Mr Bassham said.
Mr Bassham said the district attorney's office would have to decide whether any of the shoppers could be charged but ti was uncertain what law, if any, would be applicable..
A state statute for failure to render aid specifically refers only to victims of a car accident.
Two suspects have been arrested in the stabbing. Cherish M McCullough, 19, has been charged with first-degree murder.
Another suspect, who turned himself in a few days later, had not yet been charged today, according to the Sedgwick County prosecutor's office.
Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams told US paper, The Wichita Eagle, which highlighted the incident after it had gained little media coverage that the callousness on display from the shoppers was "appalling"
"I could continue shopping and not render aid and then take time out to take a picture? That's crazy. What happened to our respect for life?"

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for years we've had a dialogue about our violent society possibly devoid of empathy for the plight of others....have we been socially engineered thru movies, video games, music, dumbed down education...to turn us into a sociopathic society ?....Do we need a new direction as a culture?...well..DUHHHHHH!!! ...

well its a cold cold world

but in todays system of things

they may have thought they would be accused of the crime

or of being sued if she survived and she thought

you did something that worsened her condition

i stopped a long time ago for an accident no one else around

and the person in the vehicle told the cop i ran her off the road

her being from a prominate family in the next county they took her word over mine

it took a long time after that b4 i stopped to haelp another

and what happened to you may be yet another symptom...things have changed since the 50 -60's eh?...dream on...

adj4u that was just wrong!!!!
I dont know what happened to mankind but it began a very start in the 1980's with that CRAP of "whats in it for ME!!!!". I just shake my head sadly!!!!

'Devoid of empathy' may be looked upon as indifference or a void of human compassion which goes along with what you mentioned earlier as sociopathic. Social conditioning via television shows along with our specialized society wherein it is not our problem but someone else's problem such as the police or someone who is paid to serve the unfortunate victim might become a state of mind. To some it might be something that is not real but part of the environment or the culture that we live in. It is a real tradgedy that this occured.

Weve become a ****ty society full of ****!!!!

Hillfolk....I agree completely with you...do you think it has been done to us intentionally?...