The 22-year-old clerk, Al-Hassan Aiyash, is being held in the Wayne County Jail on $200,000 bond after he locked customers inside of a gas station earlier this month to prevent a possible shoplifter from leaving, escalating a situation that ended when three customers were shot, one fatally, prosecutors said at a Friday arraignment.
Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Anna Posigian said Aiyash locked three innocent customers inside of the Mobil gas station in the 12800 block of West McNichols in Detroit around 3 a.m. May 6 after Samuel McCray became upset that his credit card was declined for an approximately $4 purchase, prosecutors said.
For almost eight minutes, McCray became irate and the environment became “increasingly hostile” as the customers begged, pleaded and screamed to be let out.
They offered to pay for McCray’s $4 purchase of iced tea and donuts, Posigian said.
Aiyash then unlocked the doors but did not tell the customers he had done so, prosecutors said. About 15 seconds later, McCray shot the three customers, injuring a 37-year-old man and a 60-year-old man and killing Gregory Kelly, 37.
Assistant Prosecutor Maria Miller wrote in a press release that Aiyash’s actions were “grossly negligent.” But legal experts disagree over whether the unusual decision to hold Aiyash criminally liable is likely to hold up in court.
McCray is charged with first-degree murder, two counts of attempted murder, felon in possession of a firearm and four counts of felony firearm.
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