JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A convenience store clerk just two months on the job was in the wrong place at the right time when the subject of a nationwide manhunt strolled into the Pratt, Kansas, store, pointed a gun at him and asked for his keys.

Riley Juel, in a telephone interview Thursday with The Clarion-Ledger (http://on.thec-l.com/2oeSFjQ ), said the man was Alex Deaton, who was wanted for two Mississippi slayings, a New Mexico carjacking and the shooting of a store clerk west of Wichita.

Juel said Deaton told him he only wanted his keys, but then Deaton shot him in the abdomen. Juel said he...