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20-year-old charged for shooting employee multiple times at Wyoming gas station

Niko Rey Mena was taken into custody in connection to the shooting that left an employee in critical condition. On Friday, he was charged.
Credit: WZZM

WYOMING, Mich. — A man has been charged following a shooting at a Wyoming gas station that left an employee in critical condition on Wednesday. 

20-year-old Niko Rey Mena of Wyoming was taken into custody in connection to the shooting. 

On Friday he was charged with assault with intent to murder, carrying a concealed weapon and carrying a firearm while committing a felony. 

Police said the shooting happened around 5:40 p.m. on March 6 at the Admiral gas station on 32nd Street SW and Division Avenue S. 

Responding officers found a 36-year-old Grand Rapids man, Willis Booker, who police said works at the gas station, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

Probable cause documents state Mena went inside the gas station with his gun, talked to Booker and then followed him out of the store and shot at him.

Booker was taken to a hospital in critical condition. 

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