7-Eleven offers six-figure reward for gunman’s arrest after deadly robberies

Two people were killed and others hurt in six robberies at 7-Eleven shops (Eugene Garcia/AP)

The 7-Eleven convenience store chain has offered a 100,000 US dollar (£84,500) reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a masked gunman suspected of robbing six Southern California stores, killing two people and wounding three others.

A shop assistant, Matthew Hirsch, 40, was shot and killed at a Brea store and Matthew Rule, 24, was shot in the car park of a Santa Ana store during a five-hour string of robberies on Monday morning.