A man is now behind bars after a triple shooting took place at a Detroit gas station that left one person dead and two people injured.
A victim in the gas station shooting says the gunman warned the clerk during a dispute that he would shoot every customer in the store before opening fire. David Langston says he pleaded “don’t shoot” to the gunman, who, according to police, was angered in a dispute with the clerk over $3. He said his best friend, Gregory Karlos Samuel Fortner-Kelly, also begged the gas station’s clerk to open the locked doors of the business and let them out before being shot.
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While speaking with Fox 2, Langston said they went to the gas station to get some cigarettes and blunts. Langston said once his friend Gregory told the gunman that he wouldn’t shoot them he opened fire. According to the news outlet Langston suffered from a gun shot wound in the back and was also hit in his arm while trying to cover his face. His best friend sadly didn’t make it and another customer in the store also was shot, but is expected to recover.
Detroit police on Sunday arrested a 27-year-old man suspected in the shooting.
Police on Monday said the gas station was unlicensed and was shut down by the Detroit Buildings, Safety Engineering, and Environmental Department amid the shooting investigation. Gregory’s loved ones are distraught and angry over death. He was a father of three.
His oldest daughter, 14, is about to graduate middle school. Before he was killed, Langston said it was Fortner-Kelly who tried to shield everyone from getting shot. “That’s just what type of person he was,” said his childhood friend, Tihesha Redmond. “He’s always been a person to be there for everyone around him and take care of them and make sure they’re good.” Fortner-Kelly was a graduate of Southfield High School and Wayne State University. He had been a substitute teacher, according to Redmond.He was an outgoing, funny, “comedian type of person,” Redmond said. “No matter what you’re going through, he’s going to have you laughing.”“He was truly an earth angel,” added his mother, Marilyn Fortner.