DETROIT-- A gasoline price war between competing Detroit gas stations turned deadly when one station operator shot and killed the other.
Police said Jawad Bazzi was killed this past week after crossing the street from his BP station to confront the operator of a Marathon station, according to a report from the Associated Press.
Officers said Bazzi apparently was angry that his competitor was dropping the price of regular gas from $2.96 a gallon to $2.93. The two men began to argue, and the Marathon station operator pulled [image-nocss] a gun moments later. Police said he fired several shots, hitting Bazzi at least once in the head.
The Marathon station operator was arrested but no formal charges had been filed at press time.
Bazzi's friends said the two owners had been feuding over prices for all eight years the stations shared the street. Bazzi, a husband and father of four children ages 5 to 15, had called the gas station business "cutthroat," his relatives said.
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