A suspect in a fatal shooting outside an Ohio gas station is still on the run, and police are urging anyone with information about him to come forward.
Damario McCall, 41, is accused of shooting and killing Ar’mon Covington, 26, on Sunday around 4:15 a.m. at the BP gas station on 778 Grant Street in Akron. When law enforcement officers arrived, they discovered Covington with “multiple” gunshot wounds and pronounced him dead shortly after.
Investigators from the Akron Police Department discovered that a suspect “had been allegedly harassing women in the parking lot.” When Covington “intervened,” the suspect, later identified as McCall, shot him multiple times, police said.
The suspect then reportedly drove away in a red SUV.
McCall is wanted for murder, illegal gun possession, and carrying a concealed weapon. He is described as standing 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighing approximately 195 pounds. He was last seen wearing glasses “with thick prescription lenses.”
He should be considered armed and dangerous, police said.
Akron Police Lt. Michael Murphy described the shooting as “horrible.”
“The suspect shot our victim close range and walked away like it was nothing,” he told WEWS, Cleveland’s ABC affiliate.
Na’Tosha Covington, Ar’mon Covington’s mother, described her son’s death as “a different kind of hurt.”
“It is unexplainable,” she said, noting that he was her only son and youngest child.
“What in your right mind made you feel like ‘I am God today and I am going to take your life’?” she added in comments to the outlet. “I just hope they catch this guy and get him off the street so he does not harass other women or hurt other people. I do not want another mother, father, or family member to go through this.”
McCall was released from prison earlier this year after serving a sentence since 2009, according to WEWS and the Ohio Department of Corrections.
