On October 19, 2024, 26-year-old Jamil I. Owais was shot and killed while working as a cashier at Action Food and Liquor in Milwaukee. The dispute began when a customer, identified as 38-year-old Charles Leggett, complained about how his pizza was being made, specifically that the employee preparing it was not wearing gloves. Surveillance footage captured a verbal argument that escalated and, according to investigators, ended when Leggett drew a handgun and fired a single shot into Owais’s chest.

Another employee found Owais unresponsive behind the counter and called 911; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Owais had immigrated from Palestine in 2013 and was the father of a six-month-old daughter; he was covering a shift for his brother that day. Police say Leggett fled in a black Nissan Sentra but was located the same day via license plate data and surveillance and arrested at an apartment on West Juneau Avenue; investigators recovered a 9mm casing at the store and say a gun linked to Leggett was later found. Leggett, a convicted felon, was charged with first-degree reckless homicide and possession of a firearm by a felon and was being held on a $200,000 bond.

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