A battle between two Detroit gas stations took a shocking and tragic turn when one of the station's owner shot his rival after becoming irate over a gas-price cut.
The confrontation started when the owner of a BP station went to the neighboring 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 the 51-year-old owner of the Marathon station pulled out a gun and shot the owner of the BP, Jawad Bazzi, a 45-year-old father of five children.
To top it all off, it appears the BP station (whose owner was now dead) took advantage of the shooting. While the police shut down the Marathon station to secure the crime scene, the BP station temporarily jacked up its prices--- changing the price-per-gallon of unleaded from $2.96 to $3.09.
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