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Florida authorities are searching for a man with no facial covering seen in security footage pointing a gun at another man’s masked face, threatening to kill him inside a Walmart store over the weekend.
On Tuesday, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office requested help from the public to identify a man seen on surveillance cameras at a Walmart store in Royal Palm Beach on Saturday. The man, who does not have a mask, was seen pushing another man in a wheelchair inside the store.
The man in the wheelchair appeared to be holding a red scarf partially over his mouth but his nose was still exposed.
Another man approached them, wearing a black mask and holding a girl’s hand.
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In the midst of an exchange, the unmasked suspect moved the man’s and boy’s middle finger, drew a pistol from his waist, pointed the gun at the man, and threatened his life, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported, citing the office. from the sheriff.
The young woman tried to distance the man from the suspect, and a fourth man, also wearing a mask, intervened to intervene.
“Do you think you are big and bad because you take out a gun?” The sheriff’s office tweeted, sharing images of the exchange captured by surveillance cameras.
The suspect left the store in a white Chevy Equinox. It was not immediately clear what charges, if any, would be brought against him if he were arrested.
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The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that the incident could have been the result of a dispute over whether to wear masks during the pandemic to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Florida broke the national record on Sunday for the largest single-day increase in positive coronavirus cases in any state since the start of the pandemic, adding more than 15,000 cases, as its average daily number of deaths also increased.
The numbers reached the end of a bleak and record week as Florida reported 514 deaths, an average of 73 per day. Three weeks ago, the state only averaged 30 deaths per day.
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As of Wednesday, Florida recorded more than 290,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, with more than 4,400 deaths, according to the state health department.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
