Station Owner Kills Rival in Gas Price Fight

[truthpusher]

Source: WXYZ Detroit

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.

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.



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[superconnected]

1. How sad, the jerk killed a father of 5.

I hope he never gets out of prison.

It totally evades me on why someone would be that stupid - to kill someone which comes along with ending up in prison for such dumb reasons.

[TheWraith]

4. Typically in cases like this people aren't thinking.

They're reacting purely out of emotion, not logic... the phrase "crime of passion" is usually associated with illicit romance, but it's sometimes appropriate for cases where people let their rage run away with them.

[walnutpie]

5. This sounds like self defense

BP guy confronts Marathon guy at Marathon.

More BP guys and more Marathon guys get involved.

Someone pulls a bat.

A Marathon guy shoots a BP guy.

If the BP guy had the bat and was assaultng the Marathon guy at the Marathon guy's place of business, the shooting may well have been justified.

[IndyDurham]

8. Aggression. Impulsivity.

The prisons are full of it. And the prevalence of guns in the hands of such people.

[AngryAmish]

2. ahhh, Detroit...

[NorthernSpy]

7. Ahhh, competition. Ahhh, entrepreneurship...

:eyes:

[pinniped]

3. Another casualty of that POS*'s oil war.

.

[Javaman]

6. What would have been the ironies of all ironies is if the bullets

hit the pumps and the stations exploded, but then again life isn't like a terminator movie. lol

[GigiMommy]

9. What a sad...

turn of events all around.

[riverdale]

10. Never bring a baseball bat to a gun fight