Melville 7-Eleven Clerk Charged In Shoplifter's Death: Police

MELVILLE, NY — A man was killed in Melville early Thursday after he tried stealing from a Melville convenience store, Suffolk police said.

Raquan Jackson, 31, of Melville, stole merchandise from 7-Eleven at 24-28 Broadhollow Road at around 12:30 a.m., police said. A store employee, Conroy Jarman, 29, of Hempstead, chased Jackson from the store to a nearby parking lot at 1117 Walt Whitman Road, Melville, where a confrontation ensued, police said. Jarman fatally stabbed Jackson in the chest with a box cutter, police said.

Jackson was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician assistant from the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner.

Jarman was charged with second-degree manslaughter. He will be held overnight at the Second Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Friday.

Jarman was working alone when Jackson entered and swiped a few food and drink items, Suffolk County police Lieutenant Kevin Beyer told ABC 7. The two got into a fight, which resulted in the stabbing, police said.

"The clerk and the subject got into an altercation which turned violent," Breyer told ABC 7. "The subject was stabbed with a box cutter, which the clerk had in his possession which he was using at the store."

Jarman returned to the 7-Eleven and called 911, according to ABC 7.