DETROIT, MI. – A Detroit, Michigan, gas station employee has been charged after shooting a customer in the head over a beef jerky dispute.
Moad Mohamed Al-Gaham, 40, has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of Anthony McNary 25, both of Detroit, that occurred on Vernor Highway.
According to investigators, on June 5, 2023, at approximately 3:05 a.m., at a gas station in the 4410 block of Vernor Highway, Defendant Al-Gaham was working as the store clerk.
It is alleged that Al-Gaham and McNary had a heated exchange of words when McNary took a beef jerky product and placed it in his pocket.
Al-Gaham rifled through Mr. McNary’s pockets, took the item, and placed it back on the shelf.
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Shortly after, when Mr. McNary attempted to pay for the item, he refused to accept the money and made McNary leave the store.
Once McNary was outside, Al-Gaham manually locked the entrance doors, preventing McNary from re-entering.
It is alleged that Al-Gaham produced a handgun and held it in the line of the victim’s forehead, fatally shooting him. Al-Gaham was inside the locked store doors when he shot McNary, who was unarmed.
Detroit police officers were dispatched to the gas station store for a reported shooting at approximately 3:14 a.m. Upon their arrival, officers found McNary lying on the ground with a headshot wound.
Medics arrived on the scene and transported McNary to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
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Moad Mohamed Al-Gaham has been charged with First Degree Murder and Felony Firearm.
“Here we are less than one month after the locked door incident at a Detroit gas station on West McNichols. This simply cannot continue to happen,” said Prosecutor Kym Worthy. “In this case the defendant allegedly had a weapon aimed at Mr. McNary’s face while he was in a place of safety on the other side of a locked glass door and pulled the trigger. He had time to premeditate his actions and was not in any immediate danger.”
Al-Gaham was arraigned and remanded to jail. The Probable Cause Conference is scheduled for June 22, 2023, at 8:30 a.m., and the Preliminary Examination is scheduled for June 29, 2023, at 1:45 p.m., before Judge Kenneth King.
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