A convenience store employee was ordered detained after allegedly shooting a customer during an argument over an unpaid balance of about 47 cents.
The shooting happened around 7:26 p.m. October 9 at a convenience store in the 4400 block of West Cortez Street. Prosecutors said Janeiro Jackson, 34, was working at the store when he intervened in a dispute between his manager and a 31-year-old customer over the remaining balance.
The customer shoved Jackson during the confrontation, prosecutors said, and Jackson allegedly responded by firing two shots, striking the man once in the abdomen. The customer’s four children, all younger than 13, witnessed the shooting from outside the store, according to prosecutors. Authorities said there is no surveillance footage of the shooting…