Man Shot At Detroit Gas Station, Reportedly Over Price Of Condoms

March 10, 2012 11:39 AM

The BP Station on Fenkell in Detroit where a customer was shot, reportedly over the price of a box of condoms. (WWJ Photo/Beth Fisher)

Reporting Beth Fisher

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DETROIT (WWJ) - A man was shot and killed Friday night after an apparent dispute over the price of condoms at a Detroit gas station.

WWJ’s Beth Fisher spoke to an employee at the BP gas station on Fenkell and Meyers, where the shooting took place on the city’s westside overnight. The employee said the argument was apparently over the price of a box of condoms.

He said the customer bought a box of condoms, but made a comment that he was overcharged and could have bought them somewhere else for a cheaper price. After being told he couldn’t get a refund, the customer allegedly began tossing items off the shelves. That’s when, according to the employee, the overnight clerk came out with a gun and fired a warning shot, which struck the customer in the shoulder.

Police say the customer was taken to a local hospital where he later died from his injuries.

Ron Scott, with the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality, said they are working on conflict resolution between gas station owners and Detroiters, something they will be discussing at a meeting on Sunday.

“We can’t have this kind of attitude and this kind of disrespect for life. Whether it happens to people who work in the gas station or definitely if it happens to people in the community. From what I’m understanding, the price of a condom should not be somebody’s life,” said Scott.

Police say the store clerk, whose name has not been released, is in custody. An investigation is ongoing.

The shooting comes during an increase of violent crime in Detroit.

In another recent incident at a gas station, an 86-year-old World War II veteran was assaulted and his car was stolen in broad daylight. After several people passed by him as he crawled, unable to walk because his leg was broken in the attack, the man tried to pay a stranger to drive him home. The good Samaritan man drove him for free, and called an ambulance. Days later, a 21-year-old suspect was arrested. Charges are pending.

Detroit Councilman Kwame Kenyatta is drafting an ordinance that would require gas station owners to hire security guards to protect the public.

“And as we watch this man was beaten on camera and crawled into the station, never once did I see the proprietor, as well as the people who were going to that gas station, help that individual. We are saying secure your facility, safeguard us as a community,” said Kenyatta.

Scott said part of the problem is the general relationship between customers in the communities and gas station owners and employees.

“The problem basically is that you have people who work in the stations who do not have a reasonable relationship with the community, where the respect for the dollars that they spend is accorded to them in the terms of human respect. On the other hand, you do have people in the neighborhood who come in, or people who might engage in negative activity, where the lives of the owners are threatened,” said Scott.

What it comes down to, said Scott, is respect.

“I’ve been in similar situations in some of these stores where I’ve been disrespected. And now we’re talking about young, specifically African-American men. One of the major things in the community that you want is respect… and I think people here don’t have skills in terms of de-escalation of violence,” said Scott.

Other recent crimes in Detroit include a 27-year-old man who allegedly shot three people, two who died; a 14-year-old boy who apparently shot and killed his mother while she slept; two teens who are accused of shooting a 6-year-old boy during a carjacking spree; and a 9-month-old boy who died after someone sprayed his family’s home with bullets from an AK-47.

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Concerned

Respect is earned.
What do you think the cost of a (mandated) security guard is going to do too
the price of condoms, or anything in the stores?
Concerned

Are you Trolling?
Know guns, Know freedom, Know Liberty
No guns, No freedom, No liberty
Zipp

We know times are not great – http://www.dailyjobcuts.com

But this senseless violence, does no good. Amazing
Pacificgypsy

A few years ago when my husband and I were driving an 18 wheeler most of the smaller stations locked their doors after dark and the clerks were behind a grilled bullet proof window. There was a tray under the window. If you wanted something out of the store. Same thing the clerk got it and passed it in the tray. What happened to that plan?
Joe

Hire security guards to protect the community? Ahem, I thought that’s what guns and cops are for!
Aaron Burr

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
- Plato — http://911essentials.com
linda

Am en
freecheese

unarmed security guards will be some kind of deterence, huh? They have nothing but “observe and report” duties. They can’t even detain people.

‘mo hope ‘n change fo Detroit,huh ?
LBR

That was ruled racists. How would a certain segment of society rob a place with those measures in place? See… that’s not fair!
HighlyDoubtful

More Psyops stories. So much of the news is made up after the coup and cover up. Unelected officials took over Washington and the media. They think you can’t handle the truth. Fact of the matter is we have no democracy, president, and freedom of press is an illusion.

Our next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she’s not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren’t in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out. Search PalinsDirtyLittleSecret for the biggest cover up in history
Pinko Foreigner

“euginics isn’t working”

Your home schooling isn’t working either, it seems. You should ask ‘Senior Mintas’ to buy you something called a ‘dictionary’, next time you’re in town having your white hoods and sheets laundered.
Kevin

What? The whole Bible wouldn’t fit on the page? Come on…..
Melissa Lipnutz

cut and paste….no soup for you…
desert

On the contrary…this violence DID some good…the dirtbag won’t do that again to some other innocent clerk!
Huh?

WOW!!! Pinko Foreigner is just crushing everyone with his insightful samuri like wit. Whats it like to be a crusader for all that is good and just? Pinko, your mother should have stopped turning tricks before her third trimester. You have taken some nasty bumps to your head. Maybe some liberal politician can draft a law to mandate fetal helmets to any and all morally casual women/prostitutes remaining sexually active past their 2nd trimester.
PoPo

Don’t be bitter, he was just stating a reality that we live in and have to deal with as Americans. We can’t ignore statistics like that just for the sake of political correctness
Jenkem Huffington

So things that happened hundreds of years ago somehow justify acting like savages today? Frankly I’m shocked that without any white people left in detroit to hold them back they’re not busy inventing peanut butter and elevators and all the other wonderful contributions to society the media tells us we owe to them.

Oddly enough during slavery or Jim Crow days the #1 cause of death for blacks between ages of 16 and 40 wasn’t other blacks and I dare say your average general store or restaurant in Detroit wasn’t a crime scene 3 days out of 10.
thetruthwillsetyoufree

SLAVE TRADE stated in Africa long before Europeans got involved. Persians, Arabs and other black africans, were involved in the slave trade. The Europeans were the last group to buy slaves on a grand scale before the practice was stopped by the Europeans themselves. Remember, the Europeans just bought the slaves, the African’s (both Saharan and sub-Saharan African) had the whole slave market set-up in the ports of Africa. It’s similar to the drug trade today, where the drug lords pay the locals to grow and process the drugs…the dealers and the users are just the victims of the Rich (1%) drug Lords. ANd as we have been told by today’s inner-city leaders, the users can’t be blamed, its the drug lords fault. So, in following with the same logic and argument, the Europeans that bought slaves were not at fault, it was the Africans who captured and sold their brethren into slavery.

The entire western hemisphere was discovered and developed by Latino sponsored Royalty out of Portugal and Spain. It wasn’t till the late 1500′s when the Anglos from England came over and established colonies in the New England area-which then became the United States of America. A majority of the Latino areas are not part of the United States. A good portion of the Southern U.S. was purchased from Spain…but compared to the rest of Central and SOuth AMerican, its a very small part. So…it was the Latino’s fault that the Western Hemisphere was discovered, not the Anglo.
Yes the Holocost was committed by whites on whites. But during that same period, the Japanese killed far more Chinese that Hitler killed Jews. Horrible, but true. All races have been responsible for atrocities.
The remainder of the list outlines despicable things…save the disease spreading.

Disease spreading was not intentional. Disease/Hygiene was not understood until the beginning of the 20th century, and is still being studied today. In fact, HIV started in monkeys in african and the first person to become infected and start the spree of the disease was an African…It does not matter, really. But YOU brought it up.

The problem with the black poor and racial tension here in the US is not due people being black or white. Its the leadership in the black community here in the US that has told their people that they are entitled to something and everything. It is this entitlement that has led to a lack of self worth, a lack of community, and a general lack of a future beyond that of being a victim.
skyehawk

@ CBK Every careless word spoken (Matthew 12:36 ?) Man are you in trouble Your diatribe is the biggest load of bull pucky , racist rant , Filled with LIES ,distortions , & Racial taunts that a race-baiter could conjure up in a life time ….. ..According to you and (Matthew) …Your hate-filled rant will probably land you in Hell !…Ergo , If my reply lands me in the same spot , I really won’t mind , There are racist thugs + race-baiters ,I want to watch BURN ……
CBK

You call my comment a hate filled rant?? You call me racist with all of these horrible inhumane comments about Blacks and the city where many of my family and friends live? You say I distort and lie because my lone voice stands in the midst of great hate and injustice! But you don’t say a word about the “N” word being thrown around in this thread, or the condoning of murder. I rest my case…the Lord is my judge!