James Haller Jr., 75.
Update, 1:40 p.m. Saturday: A 23-year-old woman police took into custody on Friday in connection with the fatal shooting of a manager at O'Reilly Auto Parts store was released Saturday, The Detroit News reports.
"During the course of our investigation, we determined that the person in custody was not one of the suspects involved in the shooting incident that occurred at the O'Reilly Auto Parts Store on the city's west side, and therefore she has been released," police say in a statement.
Detectives are searching for the two suspects.
Update, 6:40 p.m. Friday: One of two suspects in the murder of an auto parts manager has been arrested, the Detroit News reports. A 23-year-old woman is in custody, Detroit Police say.
Original article, Friday morning:
O'Reilly's Auto Parts and Crime Stoppers post a $12,500 reward in the murder of auto parts manager James Haller Jr., 75, who was fatally shot during a robbery Wednesday around 5:30 p.m. at the store on Schaffer and Six Mile in northwest Detroit, Josh Landon of Fox 2 reports.
"Words can't describe how I feel. They took my father away from me. He raised me. He raised other kids in the neighborhood. All-around good man," son James Haller III says. "He was on his way home. He come out the back, and that happens."
"You didn't have to shoot him," says the victim's wife, Patricia Haller.
Authorities say two women walking inside the auto part store and announcing a robbery. They told one employee to get down on the ground and when the store manager, James Haller Junior, came from the back of the store, one of the women shot him in the head with a handgun killing him.
Police said the suspects fled the scene in a burgundy Chevy Suburban with a broken back passenger side window with plastic covering it.
"He was a military man. He was a Marine. Served two tours in Vietnam. Retired from General Motors. He was an auto worker and union worker," the son adds.
He also was a Detroit Police reservist in the 1970s.
