Suspect arrested in fatal 2011 hit-and-run at Mississauga gas station

TORONTO – A 22-year-old man has been arrested in the fatal hit-and-run of a gas station attendant in 2011.

Abdullahi Mohamoud was first arrested five months after the incident in October, 2011 but fled to Alberta.

He was re-arrested in Fort McMurry, Alberta based on a tip, police said in a press release, and will be charged with failing to remain at an accident causing death, criminal negligence causing death, and theft under $5,000.

Police say Mohamoud stopped at the Petro-Canada station on Southdown Road and Truscott Drive in Mississauga on May 19, 2011 and pumped gas into a Nissan Altima.

He then tried to flee, police said, but 62-year-old Atifeh Rad, who was working at the station at the time, chased after him and grabbed the door to tried and open it.

Rad was seriously injured when he was allegedly hit by the car. He was taken to hospital where he died the next day.