sa国际传媒官网网页入口

A gas station employee is accused of fatally shooting an unhoused man who reportedly stole cash inside a convenience store in Northeast sa国际传媒官网网页入口 Sunday morning.

Stephen McCorkle, 37, of sa国际传媒官网网页入口 is charged with an open count of murder. McCorkle is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center. It is unclear if he has an attorney.

sa国际传媒官网网页入口 Police Department spokesperson Gilbert Gallegos said McCorkle was arrested Sunday night. According to a criminal complaint filed at Metropolitan Court, McCorkle鈥檚 co-workers identified him to police.

At 6:10 a.m. Sunday, sa国际传媒官网网页入口 Police Department received a call of a homicide in the area of the 1300 block of Georgia, near Mountain and Louisiana.

According to the complaint, when officers arrived, they found a man on the street 鈥渃old to the touch.鈥� When officers lifted up his shirt, they found a gunshot wound on his lower back.

Police said the Office of the Medical Investigator found $20 and $100 bills between two layers of pants the man was wearing along with two rolls of coins in a pocket that were 鈥渃onsistent with rolls of coins you would receive from a bank or find in a cash register.鈥�

Gallegos said the dead man鈥檚 identity is not being released until his next of kin has been notified.

The complaint states that at about 5 a.m., store video surveillance showed two apparently unhoused people stealing cigarettes, food and lottery tickets. One of the men was then seen taking a burlap-style pouch with cash as well as cash from a register.

Police said McCorkle left the store unlocked when he went to the bathroom. When he returned, the men ran. McCorkle then chased after one of the men with a 鈥渕edium-sized handgun.鈥�

According to the complaint, at about 5:15 a.m., people told police they heard two gunshots in the area of the 1300 block of Georgia. At 5:26 a.m., McCorkle returned to the gas station. Police said an employee asked McCorkle why he did not call police to report the theft. He 鈥渟eemed concerned鈥� that the employee was going to report the incident to police.

鈥淎dditionally, the burlap(-)style pouch, which contained money from the safe drop,鈥� police said, 鈥渨as not located on the victim鈥檚 body at the time he was found by police.鈥�

McCorkle is later seen on surveillance video placing the gun back into his pocket and fleeing in a Jeep.

According to court records, in 2015, McCorkle pleaded guilty to attempting to commit murder after throwing a Molotov cocktail inside his aunt and uncle鈥檚 Northeast sa国际传媒官网网页入口 home. He was sentenced to eight years in prison.