MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Forrest City, Arkansas store clerk was gunned down in cold blood, and the entire thing is captured on surveillance camera. Now Forrest City Police need your help identifying the gunman.
Forrest City Police Chief Ronald Broussard says he is on a mission to find the killer. “This guy had three daughters, a wife and a family. Three children are missing their daddy and a wife is missing her husband.”
On May 11, at around 3:30 a.m., officers responded to a shooting at the Pure Gas Station on South Washington Street. When they arrived, they found the clerk, 29-year-old Malek Mohammed on the floor suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
WREG obtained this surveillance video of Mohammed in the store moments before the shooting occurred. Broussard says the video also showed the moment the suspect walked into the gas station wearing a hoodie and mask over his face.
“As soon as he walked into the store, the store clerk said to him, ‘mask,’ because the mask was all the way to his eyes. He said, ‘mask,’ and he pulled it down,” said Chief Broussard.
The Chief says the suspect immediately went to back of the store and waited for the right time to strike. “The whole time he stayed back there, he was on video. He was just watching and saw his opportunity. He moved quickly and bum rushed him.”
The suspect reportedly shot Mohammed repeatedly. “No remorse whatsoever,” Chief Broussard said. “Matter of fact, after he shot him, he had to step over him to get to the cash register.”
When the suspect took the cash he ran out of the store, but not before a witness heard the shots and called the police.
Paramedics rushed Mohammed to a nearby hospital but he didn’t survive.
Broussard says his department will not stop searching for the gunman until he’s sitting behind bars.
He also has this message for the shooter.
“If you went in and your intentions were to get a little money and you really didn’t mean to kill the guy, things happened, things went wrong, I say to you turn yourself in. I also say in the same breath, if you committed this cowardly act with mal intent, this is what you intended to do, be ye not deceived. God is not mocked. So whatever you sow, you will also reap,” said the Chief.
If you know who killed Malek Mohammed, you are urged to call the Forrest City Police Department at 870-633-3434.
They are offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect. Remember all calls are confidential.