Crime

Police seek carjacked SUV linked to killing of Macon clerk

By Liz Fabian

lfabian@macon.com
This is similar to 2008 gray, four-door Saturn Vue that the Bibb County sheriff’s deputies are looking for that was carjacked from Reliant Food Store on Mumford Road late Friday and believed to be used by the killers of a store clerk at Gary Food Mart at 3306 Bloomfield Drive early Saturday.
This is similar to 2008 gray, four-door Saturn Vue that the Bibb County sheriff’s deputies are looking for that was carjacked from Reliant Food Store on Mumford Road late Friday and believed to be used by the killers of a store clerk at Gary Food Mart at 3306 Bloomfield Drive early Saturday. Special to The Telegraph

Less than three hours before 40-year-old Prakash Patel was shot to death in a Macon convenience store, his suspected killers allegedly carjacked a vehicle at another store.

The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public’s help in locating the four-door, 2008 charcoal gray Saturn Vue taken from Reliance Food Mart at 3590 Mumford Road about 10:45 p.m. Friday.

The driver of the Saturn was not injured, according to a sheriff’s news release.

Investigators believe the Vue was used in the armed robbery of the Gary Food Mart at 3306 Bloomfield Drive, where Patel was fatally wounded about 1:30 a.m. Saturday.

The sheriff’s office released a photograph of a similar vehicle, and investigators are asking anyone who sees a car like it to call 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 877-68-CRIME or 478-742-2330.

This story was originally published June 20, 2016 at 12:43 PM with the headline "Police seek carjacked SUV linked to killing of Macon clerk."

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