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Second victim sues after being locked in Detroit gas station by clerk during triple shooting
Second lawsuit filed in triple shooting at Detroit gas station where clerk locked the door
Three people were shot — one of them died. Now both surviving victims are suing Exxon Mobile– alleging gross negligence. The lawsuit is for $150 million against the gas station and the owners.
DETROIT (FOX 2) – Surveillance video of a May shooting inside a gas station in Detroit showed a customer opening fire — after being locked inside the store by the clerk.
Three people were shot — one of them died. Now both surviving victims are suing Exxon Mobile alleging gross negligence. The lawsuit is for $150 million against the gas station and the owners.
This all happened at the gas station on McNichols near the lodge on Detroit’s west side. Attorneys say the clerk locked the doors after the suspect, Samuel McRae, threatened to steal $4 worth of items. Then prosecutors say McRae opened fire, killing one man and wounding two other people.
One of those two survivors is David Langston who was shot three times – in the hand, side, and back. He said he has had multiple surgeries, suffers from constant pain, and is unable to work.
Langston’s attorney says the clerk should have never locked the door. The lawsuit adds that the gas station owners were negligent in training and supervising their employees.
“There’s plenty of nights I can’t sleep,” Langston said. “I’m in pain all the time. I don’t smile really. I don’t even know how to be happy right now, I really can’t talk. I am just sad.”
“There is no basis to imprison this gentleman. He hadn’t done anything wrong,” said Attorney Michael Fortner, Spectrum Legal Services. “There was no authority for that, no basis for it, and no justification for it.”
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The suspect, McRae, is charged with murder, and the clerk, Al-Hassan Aiyashm, is charged with involuntary manslaughter.
“I can only imagine the terror that (Langston) went through,” said Attorney Vonda Evans. “I believe the lawsuit is necessary to bring accountability to training practices throughout the city, through the state.”
Exxon Mobile said in a statement it extends its deepest sympathies to the victims of the shooting, saying it did not own, operate or control that specific gas station because it is a franchise.
Longtime Detroit Lions nemesis Aaron Rodgers will return to Ford Field for the first time since the 2022 season in 2025.
Rodgers, who quarterbacked the Lions’ NFC North rival Green Bay Packers, reportedly plans to sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers ahead of their upcoming minicamp. He returns to action for what will be his 21st NFL season.
The Lions will host the Steelers in Week 16 at Ford Field, meaning Rodgers could make his first start at the home of his former rival since Nov. 6, 2022. This matchup is currently slated to kick off at 4:25 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 21.
Pittsburgh has been linked to the veteran quarterback throughout the offseason, as the team parted ways with both Russell Wilson and Justin Fields. Rodgers joins a quarterback room that also features Mason Rudolph, Skylar Thompson and 2025 sixth-round pick Will Howard.
Rodgers has spent the last two seasons as the quarterback of the New York Jets. His first season, the 2023 campaign, ended after just one drive as he suffered a torn Achilles.
He returned to action in 2024 and started all 17 games for the Jets, totaling 3,897 passing yards, 28 touchdowns and 11 interceptions while leading the team to a 5-12 finish.
Across his time with the Packers, Rodgers was 18-8 in starts against the Lions. He lost each of the last two games against the Lions, however, including a 20-16 Detroit win at Lambeau Field in what was his final game as a Packer.
Rodgers has totaled 6,551 yards, 54 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in his career against the Lions. Among one of his biggest moments against Detroit was a game-winning Hail Mary to tight end Richard Rodgers as time expired in a Thursday Night Football game on Dec. 3, 2015.
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CHICAGO — The Detroit Tigers scratched outfielder Kerry Carpenter from the starting lineup Wednesday, June 4, against the Chicago White Sox at Rate Field, in which he was supposed to play right field and bat fifth.
Carpenter suffered right hamstring tightness.
“He’s been dealing with this for a couple of days, navigating through the typical wear and tear of the season,” manager A.J. Hinch said, adding Carpenter remains available as a pinch-hitter. “We’re just being cautious.”
Wenceel Pérez replaced Carpenter in Wednesday’s lineup.
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Is Carpenter undergoing any tests?
“No, no, no,” Hinch said before Wednesday’s game. “He’s going to pinch-hit in the seventh inning.”
Carpenter — who launched three home runs Monday, June 2, against the White Sox — is hitting .273 with 13 home runs, seven walks and 44 strikeouts across 57 games in 2025, making 39 starts in the outfield and 11 starts at designated hitter.
He hasn’t played in the outfield since Saturday, May 31, against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium — his last of eight games in a row in the outfield.
“That’s why I’ve DH’d him a couple of days in a row,” Hinch said. “I sat him on Sunday. I pulled him early last night. I was going to put him in the outfield, but an after meeting with him today, I decided to scratch him.”
Carpenter has a history with injuries and has never stayed healthy for a full season.
The 27-year-old landed on the injured list in each of his first three MLB seasons (2022-24): left lumbar spine strain in September 2022, right shoulder sprain in April 2023 and lumbar spine stress fracture in May 2024.
He also suffered a left hamstring strain in spring training in February 2024, a left hamstring injury in Game 4 of the ALDS in October 2024 and right hamstring soreness in April 2025. None of those issues required a stint on the injured list.
The Tigers have a roster logjam on the right side of the infield, which often pushes Carpenter to the outfield. If Colt Keith is the designated hitter, Gleyber Torres is at second base, and Spencer Torkelson is at first, where does Carpenter fit?
Carpenter should be the Tigers’ everyday designated hitter — both to protect his health and hide his below-average defense — but there isn’t a spot for him at designated hitter without benching Keith, Torres or Torkelson.
That’s putting his health at risk.
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Casey Mize: ‘I feel good’
Right-hander Casey Mize is set to start Thursday, June 5, in the finale of the four-game series against the White Sox. It will be his third start since returning from a left hamstring strain, which sent him to the injured list for the minimum 15 days.
His four-seam fastball averaged about 95 mph in his first seven starts, all before the injury. Since returning, his fastball averaged 93.2 mph in his eighth start and 93.7 mph in his ninth start.
There’s no reason to be worried.
“I feel good,” Mize said. “I’m super routine-oriented. I’m diving back into what I was doing before, the normal five- or six-day routine. Body feels good. I’m ready to go.”
The velocity on his splitter has stayed the same, hovering around 88 mph.
Mize has a 2.82 ERA in nine starts.
Dylan Smith optioned to Triple-A Toledo
The Tigers optioned right-handed reliever Dylan Smith to Triple-A Toledo, opening the door for right-hander Sawyer Gipson-Long to return from the 60-day injured list to start Wednesday against the White Sox.
Called up from Toledo on Friday, May 30, Smith made his MLB debut Monday and pitched in back-to-back games. The 25-year-old allowed two runs on four hits and two walks in three innings, without a strikeout.
“He wasn’t very happy with how he threw his secondary pitches,” Hinch said. “He’s got some work to do to complete his full arsenal and continue this upward trend of pounding the strike zone with some pretty good stuff.”
The Tigers also recalled righty reliever Jason Foley — who underwent season-ending right shoulder surgery — from Triple-A Toledo and placed him on the 60-day injured list, creating room for Gipson-Long’s return to the 40-man roster.
Foley will receive MLB service time while rehabbing.
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- The Detroit Tigers lost to the Chicago White Sox, 8-1, on Tuesday, June 3.
- The loss was the Tigers’ first to the White Sox in Chicago since June 4, 2023.
- Catcher Dillon Dingler drove in the Tigers’ only run on a single in the seventh inning.
CHICAGO — The Detroit Tigers have made a habit of late-game comebacks for the past two seasons. So often, just when they seem out of it, they find a way to claw back.
It felt like that might happen again — especially with runners on base in seven of the first eight innings — but this time, there wasn’t a comeback to celebrate.
The Tigers lost, 8-1, to the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday, June 3, in the second of four games at Rate Field, as the White Sox — not the Tigers — delivered the big inning to shift the momentum, scoring three runs in the sixth on a home run.
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That’s how the Tigers (40-22) lost to the White Sox in Chicago for the first time since June 4, 2023, snapping a winning streak of 11 games over 730 days.
In the sixth, Michael A. Taylor — a 12-year MLB veteran who signed with the White Sox for $1.95 million — hit a three-run home run off left-handed reliever Tyler Holton’s changeup. Before the homer, Holton allowed singles to Austin Slater and Edgar Quero.
The Taylor homer put the White Sox ahead, 4-0.
Holton — one of MLB’s best relievers in the past two years — has an uncharacteristic 4.39 ERA in 25 games this season, a regression from his 2.11 ERA across 59 games in 2023 and his 2.19 ERA across 66 games in 2024.
Taylor is hitting .206 with three homers in 52 games.
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Bullpen-only game
The Tigers deployed a bullpen-only game for Tuesday’s matchup, using six of their nine relievers.
Right-hander Brenan Hanifee inherited a runner on first base with one out in the fourth inning, replacing lefty Brant Hurter. He immediately put himself in a jam when he fielded a comebacker and threw the ball wide of second while trying to start a double play, putting runners at first and second base.
With two outs, Hanifee crumbed when he issued back-to-back walks. He missed the strike zone of four of five pitches to Taylor with the bases loaded, walking in a run to give White Sox a 1-0 lead.
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In the seventh, the White Sox extended their lead to 6-1 with two runs off right-hander Dylan Smith. The two runs were driven in by Slater, who doubled off Smith’s fastball. It was the second MLB appearance of Smith’s career, occurring in back-to-back games against the White Sox.
The White Sox made it 8-1 with RBI singles from Mike Tauchman and Chase Meidroth in the eighth inning.
Missed opportunities
The Tigers scored one run in the seventh inning.
They were facing right-handed reliever Jordan Leasure.
Wenceel Pérez reached safely with a leadoff single, then scored on Dillon Dingler’s double to the left-field corner. The Dingler double trimmed the Tigers’ deficit to 4-1.
The Tigers had at least one runner on base in all but the fifth and ninth innings, finishing with seven hits and five walks. They loaded the bases with one out in the eighth inning, but Pérez’s strikeout and Dingler’s lineout stranded everyone.
For the White Sox, right-hander Shane Smith tossed 5⅓ scoreless innings on three hits and two walks with six strikeouts, throwing 85 pitches.
Smith has a 2.45 ERA in 12 starts.
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