One security guard was killed and another was injured in a stabbing attack at a Macy’s department store in Philadelphia on Monday morning, authorities said.
The incident began at about 10:45 a.m. when a man tried to steal hats from Macy’s in Center City, Philadelphia police said at a news conference. Security stopped the man, and after a “confrontation,” police said, the security officer “backs off, gets the merchandise back, allows the male to go on.”
About 15 minutes later, the man returned to the location and attacked two security guards with a knife, police said.
One of the security guards, a 30-year-old man, was stabbed in the neck and died at the hospital at 11:19 a.m., police said, calling it a “tragic situation.”