Video Shows People Doing Nothing To Aid Shooting Victim
Man Runs Up To Customer, Shoots Him In Head
POSTED: Monday, February 17, 2003
WASHINGTON -- Washington's police chief says it's one of the worst things he's ever seen.
Police have released a videotape showing witnesses doing nothing to help a man after he was fatally shot at a gas station.
The station surveillance tape shows the Jan. 31 slaying of Allen Price, 43. It also shows one man continuing to pump kerosene after looking briefly at the body. He then pays for the kerosene and drives off.
The camera also recorded several cars pulling away from the station after the shooting, with at least one car pulling up to the kerosene pump beside Price after he was shot.
Police interviewed people on a passing city bus but they say no one saw anything.
The tape shows Price standing at a gas pump while another man stands nearby at another pump, then it shows a suspect running up, shooting Price in the head and then running away.
Police said the man at the nearby pump did nothing and, at one point, even stepped over Price's body.
Police said dozens of people on a passing Metro bus also saw the shooting. Only one person has called investigators.
Anyone with information about this shooting is asked to call police at (202) 727-9099.
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