1 Dead, 2 Hurt After Man Shoots Up Detroit Gas Station When Purchase Was Declined: Police

DETROIT — A man is dead and two other men were injured Saturday when an angry customer opened fire inside a Detroit gas station, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office.

Officials found 37-year-old Gregory Kelly shot to death and two other men, ages 60 and 37, suffering from gunshot wounds inside a Mobil gas station on the 12800 block of West McNichols Road near the Lodge Freeway, prosecutors said.

The two men were taken to a nearby hospital, where they were expected to be ok, prosecutors said.

Samuel Anthony McCray, 27, of Detroit, was charged with first-degree murder, two counts of assault with intent to murder, three counts of felony firearm and another count of possessing a firearm as a felon.

Prosecutors said McCray tried to make a purchase of less than $4 inside the gas station at 3 a.m. when a machine declined his credit card.

McCray tried leaving the gas station with the items without paying, but the store's clerk locked the door, prosecutors said.

That's when prosecutors believe McCray started arguing with the clerk and threatened to shoot all the customers inside the gas station if the clerk did not open the door.

McCray then fired multiple rounds from a handgun, fatally striking one man and injuring two others, prosecutors said. Officials said the clerk then opened the door and McCray ran out of the gas station.

David Langston, who was injured in the shooting, told Fox 2 Detroit he and his best friend Gregory Kelly, who was also killed in the shooting, went into the gas station to buy cigarettes and blunts.

"He (the clerk) locked the door. We were like let us up out of here, we don't have anything to do with this. The guy like, 'If you don't unlock this door, I'm gonna shoot everybody in here,'" Langston told the news station. "'Please man don't shoot us we don't got nothing to do with this, man.' And my friend said something like, ‘Man, he ain’t gonna shoot us, let us up out of here.' And he started shooting."

Detroit Police arrested McCray in connection to the triple shooting the next day, prosecutors said.

No further information was released.