Ayub Ali, 61, was shot and killed during a robbery at his Pompano Beach convenience store, Aunt Molly’s Food Store, on July 17, 2018. Surveillance video showed a man enter, confront Ali at the cash register, force him to the back office, take money, leave, then return and fatally shoot him. Ali was taken to Broward Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office released the surveillance footage; it showed the suspect wearing a black vest, striped red shorts, and red slides. The suspect was later identified as Tyrone Fields Jr., 19, of Deerfield Beach. Fields was arrested after a friend persuaded him to turn himself in and was charged with murder while engaged in a felony and robbery with a firearm. He was being held without bail.
Ali was the father of four children, two of whom survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting earlier that year. Friends and family described him as kind and hardworking; a makeshift memorial was set up outside the store. Does anyone have information about the night of July 17, 2018, or remember seeing the suspect near Aunt Molly’s that evening?