'Sat on top of her, and didn't let her breathe': 7-Eleven employee brain-dead after manager 'violently and senselessly attacked' her, family says

A "normal day" for an worker astatine a California 7-Eleven turned tragic erstwhile she was allegedly attacked by 1 of her managers.

Now the household of Jessica McLaughlin is acceptable to instrumentality her disconnected beingness enactment arsenic her "brain had stopped functioning" owed to being deprived of oxygen, her member wrote successful a GoFundMe post.

"On Tuesday, the 24th [of June], Jessica walked into enactment expecting a mean time — but instead, she was violently and senselessly attacked by 1 of her managers," Sean McLaughlin wrote. "She held her down, sat connected apical of her, and didn't fto her breathe. While immoderate coworkers tried to assistance and halt it, they were attacked too. When she yet got free, she collapsed. She wasn't breathing."

Love existent crime? Sign up for our newsletter, The Law&Crime Docket, to get the latest real-life transgression stories delivered close to your inbox.

The Los Angeles Police Department told local media outlets the incidental occurred astatine the 7-Eleven successful the 5700 artifact of Melrose Avenue successful the shadows of the famed Paramount Pictures studios. Cops arrived to find a pistillate successful her 20s unconscious, with the fishy having fled the country anterior to officers arriving. Paramedics rushed the unfortunate to the hospital.

Sean McLaughlin told section local CW affiliate KTLA that his sister was astir finished with her displacement erstwhile her manager threw a vessel astatine her. The manager past allegedly attacked her and pinned her to the ground.

After she collapsed, her co-workers did CPR connected her until archetypal responders arrived.

"Meanwhile, the manager ran to the backmost country to effort and delete the information footage — and past fled the country connected her bike," Sean McLaughlin wrote. "Doctors and detectives aboriginal confirmed what we already knew successful our hearts — Jessica didn't bash thing wrong. She was the victim, and this onslaught should person ne'er happened."

Hospital unit placed the unfortunate connected beingness support, but doctors could find nary encephalon enactment successful the days pursuing the attack, the household said. Now the household is readying her funeral. They reportedly program to instrumentality her disconnected beingness enactment successful the adjacent time oregon so.

More from Law&Crime: 'I'm going to stab that motherf—er': Fired hemp store worker allegedly spews threats, trashes the spot aft his temper outgo him his job

Sean McLaughlin wrote a touching tribute to his sister to unfastened the GoFundMe post.

Jessica McLaughlin is my sister — but she's truthful overmuch much than that. She's a daughter, a champion friend, and the benignant of auntie each kid dreams of having. She's been my stone these past 5 years portion we've lived together. She was ever determination — for me, for our family, and honestly, for anyone who needed her.

Jessica had a mode of making radical consciousness safe, accepted, and loved. You could travel to her with thing and cognize you wouldn't beryllium judged. She was the benignant of idiosyncratic who rooted for the underdog, who lifted radical up erstwhile they were down, and who genuinely saw the bully successful everyone. She had specified a beauteous psyche and deserved truthful overmuch amended than the mode her beingness was taken from her.

The incidental remains nether investigation. No arrests person been announced.

7-Eleven issued a connection that said the manager successful question has been fired and the institution is cooperating with instrumentality enforcement.

"Our hearts are with those impacted during this hard time," the connection said.