A 33-year-old man wanted in the fatal shooting of a Seattle gas station worker, as well as the killings of his mother and her husband in Wisconsin, was arrested Tuesday evening in Chicago, according to police.
Michael Anthony O'Neal Fleming was charged in absentia Tuesday with murder in the first degree with a firearm enhancement in King County Superior Court, for the death of a former gas station co-worker.
King County prosecutors requested bail to be set at $5 million, and his arraignment was scheduled for Nov. 2.
Court documents said O'Neal Fleming had no known criminal convictions.
Security footage allegedly showed O'Neal Fleming circling a 76 gas station on Broad Street around 4:30 a.m. Oct. 13. After he tried the store's entrance, which appeared to be locked, he walked to a nearby 7-Eleven on Denny Way, moving back and forth between the two convenience stores before entering the 76 gas station after 5 a.m.
Just before 6 a.m., police responded to a call reporting an injured person at the Broad Street gas station. There, they discovered the clerk, 36, dead with gunshot wounds to the head, neck and torso.
The cash register was open, containing coins and a significant stack of $20 bills, according to court documents. One bill was placed in front of the cash register and several coins were on the floor.
Court documents said cracks in a glass window near the clerk suggested “fresh bullet impacts.”
Security footage showed the employee scanning something, as O'Neal Fleming approached the doorway to the clerk’s area and fired a handgun four times from 1 to 2 feet away from the employee. The recording did not capture O'Neal Fleming speaking to the employee at any point, though the employee said “good morning” twice.
After shooting and killing the employee, court records said O'Neal Fleming walked out of the store toward Broad Street, “not in any apparent hurry.”
The gas station’s owner, who reviewed security footage with detectives, told investigators O'Neal Fleming had worked at another 76 gas station on James Street managed by the same owner.
O'Neal Fleming had worked at 76 gas stations for four years, before submitting a two week's notice and reporting for his final late-night shift on Oct. 2.
The store owner said he left the company with “no unusual dynamics.”
Further investigation revealed the final text message between O'Neal Fleming and the 76 gas station employee he allegedly shot and killed was about a receipt related to fuel supply — a “routine business operation, according to court documents.
After discovering an active Washington driver’s license under his name, detectives determined O'Neal Fleming’s most recent address was the Ontario Hotel on Airport Way South.
The hotel’s owner, who was familiar with O'Neal Fleming, said he’d been living in different units of the building since 2021, but he informed staff of his plans to move out on Oct. 13 and board a flight to an unspecified destination.
Detectives searched the unit he was living in and retrieved one .38-caliber fired cartridge casing and round. Court records show he was the registered owner of four handguns.
Police conducted a welfare check at a Kenosha, Wis., home Monday afternoon after a caller reported his employer had not been seen for days.
They found a woman and a man — identified to be O'Neal Fleming’s mother, 59, and her husband, 57, who is not the suspect's father — dead with gunshot wounds. The two appeared to have been dead for days.
Police interviewed O'Neal Fleming’s twin brother who said he was “erratic, delusional and in some sort of mental health crisis.”
O'Neal Fleming’s brother said his mother said in a recent text message that he was in Chicago. Before the shooting, O'Neal Fleming had asked his brother to provide him their parents’ address, which he refused.
Police confirmed Tuesday evening that O'Neal Fleming had been arrested by U.S. Marshals "without incident in Illinois, setting off an extradition process.
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