TROY, Mich. – A 38-year-old accused of robbing an Oakland County gas station with a large rifle has been bound over for circuit court.
According to authorities, the armed robbery happened just before 2:30 a.m. Oct. 30, at a Shell Gas Station in Troy, near the intersection of Rochester Road and South Boulevard.
Police said the man entered the gas station with what appeared to be an AK-47, pointed it at the clerk and demanded money. After being given cash, he ran off.
“Put your hands on your head and count to a hundred,” he can be heard telling the clerk. “You move, you die.”
Surveillance footage of the robbery can be watched in the video player above.
Within a week of the robbery, Joseph Louis Carter was arrested and charged with armed robbery, felon in possession of a firearm and two counts of felony firearm. He was denied bond.
On Thursday, Dec. 18, Carter was bound over to circuit court, where he is expected to stand trial.