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Lee County Sheriff’s Office

A Fort Myers, Florida man is in police custody after surveillance video shows him fatally beating a gas station clerk with a hammer.

The incident happened around 8 a.m. Thursday, April 2, at D&D Convenience Store in the Chevron gas station at 3500 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard.

Surveillance video shows Rolbert Joachin, 40, wielding a hammer while smashing the windscreen, hood and headlights of a dark SUV in the parking lot outside the store.

When the clerk walked outside, Joachin quickly approached her and began attacking her with the hammer. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

A customer found the clerk unresponsive on the ground.

“I came around the corner, and I seen the guy walking off, and then I seen her laying there. I thought she was sleeping, but I looked and seen all the blood. And then I said, Well, damn, this is murder,” Frederck Ashley said.

Photo of Rolbert Joachin
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Police tracked Joachin down and tackled him to the ground near Dunbar Park, about a mile away from the D&D Convenience Store.

Joachin is now in custody at the Lee County Jail without bond.

The manager of D&D Convenience Store said the victim worked there but he didn’t identify her.

Graphic video of the incident is circulating online.

D&D Convenience Store customer Andre Harris said he hopes her family doesn’t see the video.

“Terrible! I don’t even know how such a thing could be floating around and this woman has family out there so it’s not good that it’s floating around,” Harris said.