meanwhile, at approximately 4:15–4:20 p.m., a group of people approached the pay-less liquor and deli on florence avenue just west of normandie in south central. a gang member in an interview said that the group "just decided they weren't going to pay for what they were getting." the store owner's son was hit with a bottle of beer, and two other youths smashed the glass front door of the store. two officers from the 77th street division of the lapd responded to this incident and, finding that the instigators had already left, completed a report.