An argument over gas prices has left one gas station owner dead and another in the custody of police. Police have said that the shooting happened around 10:30 A.M. this morning on the corner of Springwells and Fort street in southwest Detroit. Police said the owner of the BP Station confronted the owner of the Marathon Station about lowering his price to $2.93 gallon, three cents less than the BP station. The confrontation then escalated into a physical fight with employees from both stations involved. One man was hit with a baseball bat
Relatives identified the BP owner as Jawad Bazzi, 45, who was pronounced dead at an area hospital. Police said the two men began a fistfight, which escalated. The Marathon owner, a man identified only as being in his 50s, drew a handgun and fired three to four shots, fatally striking the BP owner at least once in the head.
This is just pointless. Why do we need all this useless violence and especially over something as trivial as gas prices. Speaking on violence and intolerance, today is also national tolerance day. Let’s be a little more tolerant in our ever violent world and not shoot people needlessly. Just thinking what could have happened had the gun ignited the gas pumps, then we would have a lot more than one dead person. The person who fired the shot should be put in jail for a very long time and charged with attempted murder for every person at the gas station at the time of this argument.
Thanks to The Populist Blog for giving me a heads up.
