ExxonMobil sued over clerk who locked door in Detroit gas station shooting

A man injured in a deadly Detroit gas station shooting has filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil alleging a clerk locked him and two other patrons in the station’s convenience store with the gunman who shot them.

Anthony Bowden’s lawsuit accuses the ExxonMobil Corp. and the gas station franchise owner, SMM Investment Inc., of multiple counts of negligence stemming from the shooting in March in which a patron was killed, and he and another customer were wounded.

“Locking three innocent people inside of a building with a person threatening…