Teen charged with murder in stabbing death of gas station attendant

AMMAN — A 17-year-old was charged on Monday with the murder of a gas station employee in Jerash earlier in the day, official sources said.

The suspect was with three adults who parked their vehicle at a gas station in the northern governorate after midnight to refuel, a senior judicial source said.

“It seems the radio was loud in the car, and one passenger or more were smoking; the employee asked them to put out the cigarettes and turn down the music,” the judicial source added.

A heated argument ensued and it turned into a scuffle and “the employee was stabbed with a knife by the minor”, the source told The Jordan Times.

“The stab was fatal and the employee died before reaching hospital,” a second official source said.

The suspects sped away and were later arrested by police, the second source added.

The minor was ordered detained by a juvenile prosecutor at a juvenile correctional facility pending further investigations, the judicial source said.

Meanwhile, the remaining three suspects will stand before a Criminal Court prosecutor because they are adults and are expected to be charged with complicity in murder, the judicial source added.