gridlore | I'd love to be on this jury.

Just so I could find the dude not guilty, then take him out for dinner.

Store clerk charged with murder

Alameda County prosecutors filed a murder charge today against a store clerk who allegedly shot and killed a man who had robbed and beaten him moments earlier.

Saleh Homran is scheduled to be arraigned Friday on one count of murder with use of a firearm in the Monday death of Terrell Martin, 19, a neighborhood teen.

"He was not in danger at the time of the shooting," Assistant District Attorney Tom Rogers said. "He fired from some distance as they were fleeing. He was clearly not at risk at the time he shot them."

Police said Martin and an accomplice walked into the MA Grocery market at 2401 Foothill Blvd. in Oakland about 10:30 p.m. Monday and began stealing T-shirts.

Homran told police that Martin held him and punched him while the accomplice began taking about 10 shirts. Then both young men fled the building and ran down the street. Homran grabbed a handgun from inside the store and followed them.

"He said he chased after them for about a block and then he shot at them from the distance," Rogers said.

Homran was arrested early Tuesday after giving a statement to homicide investigators and is being held without bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned at 9 a.m. in Dept. 112 before Judge Trina Stanley.

Police have not located Martin's accomplice.

Calls to the market where Homran works were not returned today.

So, the little creeps bust in, beat the crap out of the guy, steal shit then run away. Injured clerk gets a gun and stops a crime still in progress. One less thug in Oakland, and I'm willing to bet the other ganger-wannabe is scared shitless.

Good for Mr. Homran. We need more people like him.

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Unfortunately, if everything was as described, the clerk is guilty of murder. Maybe not murder-first, but still. You can justify killing in immediate self-defense. Killing when you're no longer in danger is a lot tougher.

I imagine a good defense lawyer and a sympathetic jury will get the guy off. But he was being pretty irresponsible, banging away at fleeing targets, at a distance, in the dark.

I still say that's manslaughter, his life was threatened, and honestly, who knows if those guys wouldn't have dumped the loot in a holding spot or given them to someone else, and then gone back for more, and beaten the clerk the rest of the way to death...

Likely? maybe, it's reasonable doubt in my mind, he didn't know where they were going, they attacked him, they could have surrendered when the guy hollered stop. I hope he gets a good book deal or something out of this to pay for his court costs.

I'd love to be on this jury.

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