Convenience store clerk guns down unarmed man
Lauderhill FL Feb 28 2018 After an argument with a Farm Store clerk in Lauderhill, Stevens Jeangilles ran away from the drive-thru convenience store and made it about a block before realizing he had been tracked down.
Jeangilles raised his hands, dropped a cellphone to the ground and was shot with a .45 caliber handgun “multiple times” before he fell mortally wounded at 4236 NW 12th St., according to Lauderhill police.
The man who police say shot him — Farm Store clerk Sameer Rashid, 33, of Lauderhill — headed back toward the Toyota SUV he had arrived in but then turned around and fired a handgun at Jeangilles a few more times, an arrest report said.
“It’s unknown at this time if the men knew each other prior to the shooting,” Lauderhill Police Lt. Michael Santiago said Tuesday.
The gunfire happened around 8:49 a.m. Monday; about 30 minutes later, Jeangilles, 32, died at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, police said.
Jeangilles’ sister Lynn Jeangilles said the man his relatives called “Steve” loved to compose rap songs and was a “great uncle to my children. He was like a dad to them. He loved his family.”
The father of a 9-month-old girl, Jeangilles was on his way to an interview for a security guard job on the morning he died, she said.
A 911 caller told dispatchers she heard arguing and then heard gunshots, according to the arrest report. Information from witnesses and surveillance video from nearby businesses would show the shooting unfold, police said.
Detectives were still studying the video footage, Santiago said.
Officers found Rashid on Monday at the Farm Store where he had a .45 caliber pistol, the report said. He was booked into the main Broward County jail in Fort Lauderdale on a charge of premeditated murder.
During a court hearing Tuesday afternoon, Broward Judge Kim Theresa Mollica ordered that Rashid remain in custody without bond.