Detroit Gas War turns into Shooting War

[Jeff White]

http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=294c7893-a059-43bd-81ce-afc69f90cff2

Station Owner Kills Rival in Gas Price Fight

Last Update: 1:23 pm
Detroit police say a war between two gas stations took a shocking and tragic turn with a station owner shooting his rival who was irate over a gas-price cut.

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The shooting happened around 10:45 a.m. at the Marathon station near the corner of Springwells and Fort Street in southwest Detroit.

Investigators say the confrontation started when the owner of the BP station on that corner went to the Marathon station to discuss with its owner why he'd dropped the price for a gallon of unleaded gas to $2.93 per gallon, three cents less than BP.

The discussion quickly escalated into a fight with two more people from the BP station brawling with rivals at Marathon. One man was hit with a baseball bat in the melee. And then, police say, the 51-year-old owner of the Marathon station pulled out a gun and shot the owner of the BP, a 45-year-old father of five children.

In a wild post-script, it appears the BP station is taking advantage of the shooting. While police are still swarming the Marathon station, the BP has jacked up its prices. WXYZ's Bill Proctor reports that as soon as the owner's body was taken away, workers at BP changed the price-per-gallon of unleaded from $2.96 to $3.09.

Wonder if the shooter had a CCW permit?

Jeff

 

[Evil Monkey]

The whole story is not here....

who hit who with the baseball bat? If the BP owner hit the Marathon owner with the bat, then he deserved to get shot. The baseball bat is being used as a deadly weapon.

 

[ArmedBear]

A father or 5 shouldn't launch an attack on a business competitor, including assault and battery with a deadly weapon (a bat surely is that), because said competitor doesn't care to engage in a Federal crime. Price-fixing IS a Federal crime, BTW.

I pity the children of such a man.

WRT the bat and the gun, a group of people entering someone's place of business, and attacking the owner and employees physically, should be sufficient to justify deadly self-defense.

 

[full-auto]

I think the moral to this story is don't come onto my property with your thugs, beat one of my employees with a ball bat and expect to survive the encounter.

 

[ilbob]

WXYZ's Bill Proctor reports that as soon as the owner's body was taken away, workers at BP changed the price-per-gallon of unleaded from $2.96 to $3.09.

Amazing.

Wonder if the shooter had a CCW permit?

would he need one to have a gun at his place of business?

And then, police say, the 51-year-old owner of the Marathon station pulled out a gun and shot the owner of the BP, a 45-year-old father of five children.

and how is the number of children in any way relevant?

 

[Hoppy590]

One man was hit with a baseball bat in the melee. And then, police say, the 51-year-old owner of the Marathon station pulled out a gun and shot the owner of the BP

as stated. who hit who? if i get hit with a bat, im damn sure gunna take that as deadly force against me and respond in kind

 

[El Tejon]

Can't he just give away a free root beer in a Lions cup with every fill up instead of armed assault?:banghead:

 

[Stevie-Ray]

and how is the number of children in any way relevant?

It isn't. But the media rightly thinks that it will help to get the people riled up about the evil guns.

Remember, this is the state of the Canadian governor. The one that, as AG, worked so tirelessly to eliminate the possibility of Michigan being a shall issue state. I'm quite sure that, when she was elected governor, Governor Engler took her aside and told her to turn off the anti-gun attitude. Up to now, she has, especially since crime has dropped since then. Now, who knows?

This happened about five miles from here. Pisses me right off! (For my own selfish reasons)