A Birmingham store clerk has been charged with murder in the weekend shooting death of a customer after a dispute inside the store.

Quajae Dasion Ellis Ware, 22, is charged with murder in the Saturday slaying of 54-year-old Richard Allen Judkins.

About 4:45 p.m., Ware walked up to a sergeant at the East Precinct and said he had just shot someone nearby, at the Murphy USA outside Walmart on Roebuck Plaza Drive.

Police rushed to the gas station and found Judkins unresponsive on the floor. Fire medics pronounced him dead on the scene.

Sgt. LaQuitta Wade said police had received calls at 4:44 p.m. of an irate customer inside the store. Officers were about to be dispatched when Ware showed up at the precinct.

Multiple calls then started coming in reporting a physical altercation followed by shots fired in the gas station.

The gunfire shattered the glass on the store’s door.

There were other customers in the store at the time, but nobody else was injured.

Authorities said the argument between the two men was not store-related.

Ware, of Birmingham, was booked into the Jefferson County Jail 5:51 p.m. Sunday. He is being held without bond.

“As we’ve stated before, people need to find some other way to resolve conflict before resorting to gun violence and taken a loved one from their family,” Wade said.

Judkins is Birmingham’s 92nd homicide so far this year. Of those, eight have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.

In all of Jefferson County there have been 116 homicides, including the 92 in Birmingham.