A teen walked out with a $2 beer. The store clerk shot him, went back inside & didn't call 911
Seventeen-year-old Dorian Harris was already on his way out the door when the store clerk, Anwar Ghazali, grabbed his gun, pointing it over the counter with two hands.
Harris had spent about seven seconds inside the store. The Top Stop Shop in Memphis was busy that night, about 10 p.m. on March 29, 2018, and when the unarmed teenager waltzed through the door, he didn't waste any time being sneaky. Dressed in purple pants and a hoodie, he grabbed a $2 beer from the shelf in plain view of Ghazali, turned and left, as the clerk raced around the counter.
Ghazali burst toward the door past bewildered customers milling near the counter. Beverly Loverson was one. She saw Harris and the beer, and Ghazali and the gun, "and as he passed me," she remembered while testifying on the stand this week, "I said: 'Don't kill him. Don't kill him. It's just a beer.'"
Ghazali spun around looking for Harris in the parking lot before spotting him bolting down the block. Ghazali took off at a sprint. He caught up and fired his gun, one, two, at least three times. Then, he went back to the store.
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As he walked back inside he said, "I think I shot him," according to an arrest warrant, and returned to the cash register to ring up the next guest. He never called 911.
Two days later, Harris was found dead on the same block, collapsed in a man's backyard.
On Thursday, Ghazali was convicted of second-degree murder, marking the end of a tragic case that has sparked protests and boycotts and inflamed racial tensions in Memphis as hundreds mourned the African American teenager. Ghazali is set to be sentenced next month, facing between 15 and 60 years in prison.
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Numerous witnesses were in the store when Ghazali pulled the gun. None of them called 911 either, something Loverson said she had come to regret. In the hours and days after the shooting, Ghazali never reported it, and he never complained to police about any theft.
"He just left him out there to die," Fitch told the Commercial Appeal, "and I do believe in all my heart that if he had called the police and let somebody know that he shot somebody that my grandson would have been alive today."
Harris was shot in the left leg, and the bullet severed a major artery, Fowler said during the trial. A neighbor who lives four doors down from the convenience store told the jury that two days after the shooting, he noticed a trail of blood in his yard, WMC-TV reported. He followed it, and found Harris's body.
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