Police identify Waukesha gas station clerk killed in shooting; reward offered
Waukesha - A $3,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest of a suspect in the shooting death early Tuesday of 56-year-old gas station clerk Nayyer M. Rana.
A customer saw Rana on the floor of the Broadway Petro Mart, 114 E. Broadway, about 4:20 a.m. and called police, Capt. Ron Oremus said.
Rana died of apparent gunshot wounds before emergency units arrived, Oremus said in a news release.
Robbery is being investigated as a possible motive in the slaying, but police have not determined how much, if any, money is missing.
No suspect is in custody, and there is no description of a suspect, police said.
The reward is being offered by family and friends of Rana. Police are asking anyone with information about the killing to call the department at (262) 524-3818.
Rana is survived by his wife and four children.
Attorney Michael P. Maxwell, who announced the reward on behalf of Rana's family and friends, said in a news release that the family is asking for privacy "as they deal with the grief of the loss of a beloved husband and father."
Friends of Rana's family also are establishing a memorial fund for the family to help with expenses, Maxwell said. Contributions to the fund can be made at any Landmark Credit Union branch.
Waukesha police said Tuesday that the gas station also was robbed about 1 a.m. May 14 but noted in a news release that there is no known connection between that robbery and Tuesday's shooting death.
In the May 14 robbery, a man with a black handgun robbed the store. Rana was not working at the time, the news release says.
Police also said Jimmy's Grotto restaurant, 314 E. Main St., a few blocks from the gas station, was robbed just before midnight May 10. Investigators also don't know whether this robbery is related to the homicide.
The suspects in the two earlier robberies are different, according to descriptions police supplied.
In the May 14 gas station robbery, the suspect was described as a black man, possibly about 25, 6 feet tall and 140 pounds. The suspect was wearing a black ski mask, dark jeans and a black jersey or hooded sweat shirt.
In the May 10 restaurant robbery, the suspect was described as a white or Hispanic man, age 20 to 25, about 5-foot-7 and 170 pounds. The suspect was wearing a gray hooded sweat shirt, jeans, a black baseball hat with a red emblem, black gloves with white skeletons on them, and a white and black bandanna covering his face, police said.
Oremus said Tuesday's shooting death was the first homicide this year in Waukesha. There was one in 2010, also a shooting death.
