Police: Gas Price War Leads to Shooting

1 day ago

DETROIT (AP) — A price war between competing gas stations apparently led to one gas station operator shooting another on Friday, police said.

Jawad Bazzi, 46, was killed Friday morning after crossing the street from his BP station on Detroit's southwest side and confronting the 51-year-old operator of a Marathon station.

Bazzi apparently was angry that his competitor was lowering the price of regular, unleaded gas from $2.96 to $2.93 per gallon, police said.

The two men began to argue and then fight. Moments later the Marathon station operator pulled a gun and fired several shots. Bazzi was struck at least once in the head.

"That is what the argument was about. It was a difference of three cents," Detroit Deputy Police Chief Claudia Barden-Jackson said. "We as consumers are incensed about the price of gas, but you never think of it in terms of the suppliers."

The Marathon station operator was arrested but had not been charged as of Friday evening. Police did not release the man's name because he hadn't been charged. Barden-Jackson did not know if he had an attorney.


Bucking someone over 3 cents a gallon? Hopefully the price is still good in spite of this. I'm about to go get in on this.

Seriously though, WTF?

i didnt post that.

i didnt post that.

Seriously though, WTF?

I responded to it and said that Codename V posted a video in the Multimedia section, which I was wrong about so I deleted my post. Hence the "I didn't post that".

Sorry Code.

I apologize for the pain I may have caused Codename V and his family.

I apologize for the pain I may have caused Codename V and his family.

Just be thankful the fifth of November has already passed. Next year though...

I read this and was going to post it since my last murder mystery post was 'just outside' Detroit.

I could see a good old fashioned fist fight, but murder?

I seem to recall some stories a few years ago from NYC about an Indian dude who owned a gas station and went gangster on all his Indian competitors.

oh here we go. (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E6DF1E3CF930A35750C0A96F9582 60&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/D/Dhinsa,%20Gurmeet%20Singh)

Indian American Gangster movie script on the horizon? the story seems to have that feel to it.

There's already a Bollywood version, and it has lots of singing and dancing.

This was on the local news this morning in Denver. They were a little late on the story I guess. They did say Michigan on there, and not Detroit, FWIW.