According to investigators, a store employee was killed in a dispute over a pizza order

MILWAUKEE (WISN) – A man is facing decades in prison for allegedly killing a store clerk over pizza in Wisconsin.

The suspect is being held in the Milwaukee County Jail on $200,000 bail.

Walking through the doors of the corner shop on Dr. will never be the same for Mohammad Owais. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Keefe Avenue; He is back at work after someone shot his brother, who was also a young father.

“I said to my brother, 'Please, I need help, for like an hour, an hour and a half.' He told me, 'I have you,'” Mohammad Owais recalls.

The store owner says Charles Leggett ordered a pizza during that time.

“My brother served him and gave him the ticket. He went to the guy back there to make him the pizza. He gave him the ticket. I think the guy wasn’t wearing gloves or anything,” said Mohammad Owais.

The employee who prepared the pizza fears being identified but said he is “pretty sure” he wasn't wearing gloves at the time.

“He went back to the front and got into an argument with the cashier at the front and they shouted a few words at each other,” Mohammad Owais described. “And then I just hear a bang.”

According to prosecutors, store surveillance video shows an argument at the counter and then the shooter abruptly “puts the gun to Owais' chest.” He fired and killed 26-year-old Jamil Owais.

“He shot him in the heart here and he died soon,” Mohammad Owais said.

Jamil Owais, a Palestinian immigrant, came to the United States in 2013, leaving behind a wife and young daughter.

“It's a big loss. He's a good guy. He is like my son when he came,” Mohammad Owais said. “He was a little boy. He grew up with me. That’s why this thing hurts me too much.”

If convicted, Leggett faces up to 75 years in prison.

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