A man suspected of killing three people during a gas station robbery on New Year’s Day in a small town in Mississippi is being sought near the state’s border with Alabama, the authorities said.
The man waited behind the gas station before it opened early Wednesday morning, then went inside the building and fatally shot a clerk and a customer and stole money, Chief Deputy Brad Warrick of the Greene County Sheriff’s Office said at a news conference on Wednesday night. The gunman also fatally shot a customer outside the building.
The shootings took place at a Clark’s gas station in State Line, Miss., which has a population of about 450 people and is about 60 miles northwest of Mobile, Ala.
Officials have not publicly identified the suspect, but they said he is a man who is armed and dangerous. The Greene County Sheriff’s Office released images from the gas station’s surveillance cameras that showed the suspect wearing a mask that obscured his face, a leather jacket and brightly colored shoes.
The gunman left the gas station in a black Toyota that was stolen from one of the victims, officials said. Investigators later found the vehicle about four miles from the gas station.
Officials did not name the victims, but local news reports identified two of the victims as friends, describing them as a woman who was the clerk and a friend who dropped her off at work before going to his job.
In Alabama, the Washington County sheriff, Richard Stringer, said on Wednesday that the search for the gunman was happening in a two-to-three-mile radius from State Line, Fox 10, a local news station, reported. He said dogs were being used to track the suspect from the abandoned stolen vehicle.
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