Alleged convenience store security officer fatally shoots shoplifter
Milwaukee WI August 18 2023
A man fatally shot by a convenience store security officer did not deserve it says friends and family members.
Relatives say that the 29-year-old man was shot to death early Wednesday at a Milwaukee gas station by a security guard for stealing snack cakes.
Family and friends of Isaiah Allen blockaded the pumps and the store entrance at the Clark station at Teutonia and Roosevelt Wednesday in protest.
Allen lived just a block from the gas station where he was shot to death around 6:20 a.m.
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Allen’s uncle Shawn Moore said he was shot when he was already outside the store.
“Allegedly over some cupcakes, this is what the witnesses stated. Shot him outside the store,” Moore said.
“He was funny, loving, he’d do anything to help somebody,” said his mom Natalie Easter. She said he went to the store with some friends, who told her they saw Allen get shot in the head after he shoplifted some snack cakes. “He’s got two beautiful kids, 9 and 3, and now they gotta grow up without their daddy,” Easter said. “Over a box of 25-cent cakes. I still can’t wrap my head
WISN 12 News reached out to the store’s owner for comment, who didn’t respond, but an employee denied the gunman worked for them.
According to city of Milwaukee online records, the business was just declared a public nuisance by the Milwaukee Police Department in March after an incident in which shots were fired outside and a separate incident involving an armed robbery at one of the pumps.
“We want an emergency hearing that their license be revoked. We don’t want them in our community,” said Sedan Smith, a community activist at the vigil on Wednesday. “We don’t need their services, especially if they’re going to hire people that’s going to hurt us.”
Milwaukee police said the suspect remains at large, but they said they have identified him. They would not confirm that he works at the gas station. They said the incident remains under investigation.
