Detroit gas station shuttered after clerk shoots at shoplifter

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A west side Detroit gas station has been shut down by police after a clerk allegedly shot at a shoplifter -- who then jumped onto the Lodge Freeway, was hit by a car and killed. WWJ's Charlie Langton reports.

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00:00Here is a sticker from the Detroit Police shutting down this mobile gas station here

00:07on McNichols and the Lodge.

00:09This is the site of last week's shooting.

00:12A shoplifter apparently went inside, shoplifter in the car came outside, allegedly started

00:19shooting.

00:20The suspect ran across here to the Lodge, jumped on the Lodge and was killed.

00:27There have been no criminal charges yet, but the police did close the station down.

00:33Apparently there was a similar incident of a shooting in 2003.

00:37And apparently police don't like this.

00:42No charges yet for that court.

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