DETROIT – A hail of gunfire erupted early Wednesday morning at a gas station in southwest Detroit.
Police said a man, identified to Local 4 by family as 26-year-old Keenan Beard, was standing outside his SUV at the BP station at Ford Street and Schaefer Highway just after 1 a.m. when four masked men pulled up and opened fire.
"He didn't even know they were shooting at him. He was getting gas and once he realized, he ran in here," said Beard's father, Kenneth.
Police said 48 shots were fired. Several of them hit Beard's car and shattered the store windows.
Beard ran into the gas station's store for help. The station manager, Omar Ahmed, was working in a back room when he heard the man's cries for help.
"He got in here and fell right here. I opened the door and put him in and then just laid him down. It would stop for a couple minutes and then they would start shooting again. They stopped and then started shooting again three or four times," Ahmed said. "A customer that was on the floor said one guy came with an AK-47 and one came with a handgun. They had ski masks on and everything."
Beard was taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg. He's listed in stable condition.
The only descriptions of the gunmen released by police were that it was four men in ski masks who were last seen driving away in a silver four-door car, possibly a Pontiac Grand Prix or Chevy Impala.