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A 2nd Shooting Victim Dies After St. Pete Store Robbery

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Published: August 20, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - A second person shot in a convenience store robbery Sunday has died, St. Petersburg police say.

Ronald Hayworth, a 50-year-old transient who was a customer in the store, died at 11:40 a.m. Tuesday, St. Petersburg police spokesman Bill Proffitt said.

The owner of the store, Mohammad Nasir Uddin, 44, died Monday. A third person who was shot, customer Albert Barton, is at Bayfront Medical Center but was expected to survive.

The robbery occurred at 6:45 p.m. Sunday at the Central Food Mart, 2157 Central Ave., police have said. Two suspects, Khadafy Mullens, 24, and Spencer Peeples, 27, are being held at the Pinellas County Jail on a variety of charges.

The suspects are accused of entering the store and taking cash, lottery tickets, cigarettes and the keys to Uddin's car. Peeples went to get the car and Mullens stepped outside to wait for him, but when Peeples didn't immediately show up, Mullens went back inside the store, found Uddin dialing 911 and shot him in the head, Proffitt said.

Mullens then threw Hayworth to the ground and shot him in the head, Proffitt said. Barton then walked through the door, and Mullens shot him, Proffitt said.

The robbers became aware of a surveillance video camera in the store, found a video recorder and took it, Proffitt said. What they didn't know was that a new recorder had been installed, and they missed the functioning recorder, which captured the robbery and shootings, with quality images and sound, Proffitt said.

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