No place on the globe is 'perfectly' safe. Of course. That's a straw man argument.

This particular area is not very safe. There are 'safer' areas of commerce and business. I make it my business to try to do business in those areas.
That's fair. I didn't mean to repeat the phrasing. I also respect your decision to carefully choose where you purchase gas. Like you, I frequent a gas station near WSU. It costs more, but I feel safe there, even at night.

I just don't think, as 313WX implies, that buying gas at Davison and Linwood at 5 pm is an outrageous decision. Lots of people do it, and there were probably three other cars and a half dozen people there when he pulled in. I think this crime says more about the safety of getting gas anywhere in Detroit than it does about the danger of that particular time and location.