Hillsborough police charge man with murder of elderly Home Depot worker

Police have charged a man with murder in the death of an elderly worker knocked to the floor last year during an alleged robbery at the Home Depot in Hillsborough.

Terry McAnthony McMillian Jr. of Durham has been charged with first-degree murder and robbery.

Surveillance footage showed the employee, 83-year-old Gary Rasor, stepping out in front of a man in the outdoor garden center of the store as police say he fled with stolen merchandise.

Footage showed the man shoving Rasor to the concrete floor and then continuing to walk past him.

McMillian allegedly left the scene with three stolen pressure washers in a car with temporary license plates.

Rasor was hospitalized with several broken bones. He died Nov. 30 from complications from injuries he suffered in the Oct. 18 incident outside of the home improvement store in the Hampton Pointe Shopping Center in Hillsborough.

North Carolina state law defines first-degree murder as a killing that is willful, deliberate, and premeditated or committed during the perpetration or attempted perpetration of a crime like robbery. If convicted, McMillian could be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The North Carolina medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, police said previously.

Investigators were assisted by the State Bureau of Investigation and the FBI’s Raleigh-Durham Safe Streets Task Force, in addition to help from the Durham and Orange County sheriff’s offices.

McMillian was taken into custody without incident in Durham around 7 a.m. Tuesday and is being held without bail in the Orange County jail in Hillsborough.