Sean Lewis, a 34-year-old husband and father, was killed during an altercation at a 76 gas station on 7 Mile near Harper in Detroit on Saturday, September 23, 2017. Accounts say the dispute involved a machine inside the store; some reports claim Lewis was shaking the machine to retrieve money. The gas station’s 18-year-old clerk, firing from behind bulletproof glass with an AK-47, struck and killed Lewis.

A hammer was reported near Lewis’s body and a bag containing money was found, while some early accounts suggested a possible robbery. Family and community members disputed that narrative, insisting Lewis did not deserve to die over the incident and that the clerk faced no imminent threat. Detroit’s police chief said investigators believed calling police would have been the appropriate response. The teenager was arrested; protests followed, with groups demanding the station be shut down and the owner pay funeral restitution.

If anyone was at the 76 that day or has information about what happened inside the store, please come forward.