DETROIT (WWJ) – A 20-year-old Detroit man has been arrested and will be charged with first-degree murder after a 48-year-old man was shot and killed at a liquor store on the city’s west side Monday afternoon.
Terrance Lewis is accused of shooting Francisco O’Neal, also of Detroit, on July 11 in the area of West Warren and Grandville Avenues. Lewis is expected to be arraigned Friday on one count each of first-degree murder, felon in possession and felony firearm.
The charges stem from a shooting shortly before 3 p.m. Monday near a liquor store on Warren, between Evergreen and the Southfield Freeway.
Officials say Lewis and O’Neal knew each other and had been involved in a dispute prior to the shooting. Authorities did not disclose the nature of the dispute or what prompted it to escalate to gun violence.
As O’Neal was walking to the liquor store, Lewis allegedly pulled out a gun and shot him in the neck, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office.
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Officers responded to the scene and found O’Neal inside the store with a gunshot wound to his neck. Lewis was arrested on Wednesday.
Members of the Detroit Fire Department arrived on scene and took O’Neal to a hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead.
Lewis is scheduled to be arraigned at 10:30 a.m. Friday in 36th District Court.
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