Monday, January 2, 2012

The following event takes place September 11, 2003, what started out as a normal Thursday morning in a Detroit suburb before all hell broke loose.

"It's a small video camera mounted inside Neil's Party Store in Westland, but police say it captured in detail how a well-dressed Michael L. Schofield, with the help of his girlfriend, executed four men.

One man is already lying shot to death inside the store; another clings to life as the woman, posing as an employee, cheerfully invites two unsuspecting customers in. They take three steps inside and Schofield sneaks up from behind and shoots them in the head with a 9mm handgun.

The killing wasn't finished. Schofield 's alleged accomplice, Leslie Gordon, 24, yells, "There's some more coming up," as a red pickup truck pulls up. Schofield tries unsuccessfully to open a cash register and then yells, "Let's go, baby." The couple runs out of the store and Schofield fires three shots through the pickup driver's side window, killing both occupants." - Detroit Free Press (MI) - Saturday, September 13, 2003

Four men killed and two seriously injured, how did this happen? "They were caught up in the momentum of life" claims (Ret) Deputy Chief Gary Sikorski of Westland Police Department. The men who entered the store while the robbery was in progress missed the warning signs of a locked door opened by a stranger who oddly greeted them and encouraged them to enter.

According to the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS), the gentlemen in the pickup truck picked the wrong store to shop at that morning. NACS claims stores having check out areas which cannot be seen clearly from the parking lot are 500 times more likely to be robbed than ones which do. Neil's did not offer a clear line of sight from the lot to the register.

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