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Clerk slain, but not robbed
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 Marshall County, Miss., authorities had a mystery on their hands Monday after the killing of a Red Banks convenience store clerk. About 3 a.m. Sunday, the killer entered the Texaco gas station and grocery store on old Highway 78 and gunned down Hefad Hallah 'Tony' Almuntaser, 31.
| Guy with a turban working long hours in a convenience store, bumped off in the wee hours of the morning. Happens now and then... |
Nothing was taken from the cash register and the victim's wallet was in his pocket, Sheriff Kenny Dickerson said.
| That part doesn't usually happen... |
Almuntaser was shot at least twice, probably with a handgun, Dickerson said. "We have not determined a motive," he said. "But we have no reason to believe it was a robbery ... the money was still in the cash register."
| But wait! There's more... |
A fellow clerk inside the store saw the shooting. "But we are not getting any information out of him," Dickerson said.
A state-of-the-art surveillance camera system was turned off sometime before the shooting, Dickerson said. "Normally, it would have been on," he said.
| Ummm... Have you thought about applying the knuckle dusters to the other clerk? |
Police were dispatched to the store after a woman who stopped at the gas station to fill up noticed an argument going on in the Texaco. She drove across the road and called 9-1-1.
The owner of the Red Banks store, who owns several other such businesses, is on his way back to Mississippi from Jerusalem, and may be able to shed light on the shooting, Dickerson said. An autopsy was being performed Monday in Jackson, Miss.
| It's probably not associated with terrorism in any way. The fact that the guy's Middle Eastern is mere coincidence. My initial guess, given the scanty facts, is that the other clerk dunnit. Just a flash in the pan killing and ten years from now poor Tony will be forgotten. Probably he wasn't a sleeper. Probably he didn't know anything, much less too much. Probably Big Mahmoud wasn't dispatched to rub him out before he went to the Feds. Probably nothing like the Hezbollah brothers in North Carolina a couple years back who were shipping the profits of a cigarette smuggling racket back to Lebanon... |
Posted by: Fred 2005-02-23 |
