Horrifying video captured a gunman ambushing a gas-station tycoon outside his Michigan mansion — repeatedly shooting at him in his SUV as he desperately tore away.
Surveillance footage showed Eddie Jawad, who owns roughly 20 Pit Stop gas stations in the Detroit area, driving out of his Macomb Township home just for a hooded gunman to suddenly spring out from between two vehicles parked in the driveway.
The gunman immediately starts opening fire at the vehicle — then chasing after it, still shooting as Jawad turned and drove across his manicured front lawn.
The father of five told WXYZ he managed to fire back a warning shot, with the footage showing the mystery gunman running off.
Jawad, 61, was shot in the leg and treated at a local hospital for that and cuts from shattered window glass. He has since been discharged.
The suspect — who is still at large and has not been identified — hopped the property wall and sped off in a black Range Rover SUV, according to Fox 2 Detroit.
The footage showed the attacker jumping a wall onto the property and waiting at least 45 minutes before seeing the target.
A motive for the morning attack is unclear. But it was not a robbery, the businessman’s wife, Khadije, told the Daily Mail. Jawad, a Lebanese immigrant who is already back at work, told WXYZ News he has no idea why someone would want to kill him.
Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido — who described the victim as a “friend” — also said he has “no idea why anything like that would ever occur” in such a quiet neighborhood.
“This isn’t a free-for-all. People don’t have the right to go around shooting at others just because they’re angry or offended,” he told the Mail.
The shooting comes months after Jawad was forcibly removed by police from a local council meeting in June for loudly opposing a plan to put a Sheetz store near 23 Mile Road and North Avenue in Macomb County, insisting the area does not need another gas station.
He feared Sheetz would be bad for his business, according to Fox 2 Detroit.
His Jawad Group Investments owns about 20 gas stations around Southeast Michigan.
