HE ASKED HER TO SAY EXCUSE ME NOW, HE IS DEAD. Bert Atienza, 77, and his wife Josephine had just left church. They stopped at the Walmart on North Military Highway in Norfolk to buy groceries. A 17-year-old employee nearly hit Josephine with a heavy cart and kept walking. No excuse me. No apology. Bert said what any husband would say: “You almost hit my wife with your heavy cart, and you did not even say excuse me.” They walked away. The employee threw a can at them. Then she called her parents. Minutes later Erika Mitchell, 42, and Travis White, 44, were in the aisle. They crowded him. One hit him in the face. He went down. They kept kicking him while Josephine screamed that he had heart problems. He was still talking. “Help me. Get up.” Then he wasn’t. He died the next day of blunt head trauma. Homicide. The parents are charged with second-degree murder, held without bond. The teen is charged too. Walmart says she no longer works there. 42 years of marriage. Plans to retire in the Philippines. Ended in a grocery aisle because a man asked for manners. That is the country we are living in.