Detroit pastor and Gospel recording artists Marvin Winans was assaulted and carjacked Wednesday afternoon at a gas station on Detroit’s West Side.
The assault took placed around 3:20p.m. and the suspects of men got away with an unknown amount of cash and Winans’s SUV.
Winans was at the Citgo Gas Station at Linwood and the Davison when he was robbed. The carjackers robbed him and took his deep purple Infiniti QX56 SUV.
The license plate number on the vehicle is 0DRT73. Detroit Police are searching for the suspects.
It is also being reported that they stole his Rolex, his cell phone and he also suffered a few cuts.
Pastor Winans told officials that four or five young men followed him from inside the gas station and attacked him while he was putting gas in his vehicle. He also said he doesn’t believe he was seriously hurt, but he did plan to seek medical attention.
Pastor Winans said his attackers appeared to be among 10 young men he passed by inside the station. While pumping gas in his car he kept a close eye on the young men. “I’m just saddened that it has come to this,” Winans said. “This kind of nonsense just has to stop. It’s just the savageness of what’s happening in the street.”
He also believes his attackers did not recognize him. “And if they did, it didn’t make much difference,” said Winans, who has been active in the civic issues, including taking a stand against the proliferation of strip clubs in Detroit’s neighborhoods.
Winans is also a pastor of the 4,500 member Perfecting Church on Detroit’s East Side. In February, he gave the eulogy for singer Whitney Houston.
