Police arrested teenagers who hit an employee who asked for ID while visiting a convenience store to buy cigarettes.
Dongducheon Police Station in Gyeonggi Province announced on the 23rd that it has booked A (17) and B (17) on charges of special assault.
They are accused of assaulting C, a male employee in his 20s working at a convenience store in Jihaeng-dong, Dongducheon-si, at around 11 p.m. on the 20th.
In the process of purchasing cigarettes, A brought an empty bottle outside the convenience store and hit C on the head, and B assaulted C with his hands and feet.
The police, who were dispatched at the report of Mr. C, arrested them one after another around the convenience store.
They were found to have stated in a police investigation, "I committed the crime because I was angry when they asked me to show my ID."
Police are investigating the details of the incident.
Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team
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