A 34-year-old Wal-Mart overnight stock clerk was trampled to death this morning at at Wal-Mart in Long Island, New York.  The man had been holding back the large crowd before they “bum-rushed” him as the store opened for ‘Black Friday.’

Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him.

“He was bum-rushed by 200 people,” said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. “They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too…I literally had to fight people off my back.”

The unidentified victim was rushed to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:03 a.m., police said.

This is truly a sad and senseless story of greed and unruthfulness!  It is truly a ‘Black Friday’ for the family and friends of this man who was just doing his job when death found him through a senseless stampede.