Houston, Texas – A teenager has been arrested for the murder of a convenience store clerk.

Jose Bonilla-Ortiz, 18, was arrested on Saturday and charged with shooting Faruk Bhuiya during a robbery on Nov. 10 at the Metro Food Mart.

Surveillance video shows two men in hooded sweatshirts gun down Bhuiya. 

Bonilla-Ortiz can be seen, in the surveillance video, wearing a dark hoodie. The second man is wearing a red hoodie and has not yet been identified.

Bhuiya and his wife lived in a house behind the convenience store on Witte Road. 

Bonilla-Ortiz is set to make his first court appearance on Sunday and will go back before a judge Monday afternoon. 

According to court records, Bonilla-Ortiz and Bhuiya struggled over a security door that the victim tried to close after Bonilla-Ortiz ran to the cashier area.

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