Pictures of convenience store robbery being used to find suspect
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Posted 11:33AM on Tuesday, August 20, 2002
DECATUR - DeKalb County police hope printouts of a suspect from a convenience store's surveillance camera will help them find the person who shot and killed a clerk. <br>
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The body of 36-year-old Zul Nurau Charania was found just before 9 a.m. Monday inside the Marathon Food Mart. <br>
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DeKalb police Lieutenant L.J. Florea says investigators believe the clerk was killed sometime after 7:30 a.m. <br>
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A witness said she spotted a man walk out of the store, lock the door, and then drive off in the victim's white Lexus. <br>
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The killing was the second fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk in the county in less than a month. <br>
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On July 22, Mohammed Abedin was killed during a robbery at a Texaco station on Lawrenceville Highway. <br>
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Police arrested Cornelius Howard and Shakina Cheney last week and charged them with murder and armed robbery.