Gregory Karlos Samuel Fortner-Kelly, 37, was shot and killed on the morning of May 6, 2023, after a dispute inside a Mobil gas station on West McNichols in Detroit. He and his best friend, David Langston, had stopped there after a Cinco de Mayo celebration. A customer, Samuel Anthony McCray, became involved in an escalating argument with the clerk over a declined roughly $3 transaction. The clerk remotely locked the station’s doors, trapping Fortner-Kelly, Langston, and another customer inside with McCray.

McCray threatened to shoot if the doors were not opened and then fired, wounding all three customers; Fortner-Kelly died and Langston survived despite multiple gunshot wounds. McCray, 27, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, two counts of assault with intent to murder, and other felonies. The clerk, Al-Hassan Aiyash, 22, was charged with involuntary manslaughter for locking the doors and preventing escape. Fortner-Kelly was a father of three, and the death prompted city officials to consider an ordinance barring businesses from locking customers inside.

Did anyone in the Detroit area witness events at that Mobil on the morning of May 6, 2023, or have information about the confrontation before the shooting?