Denver police have identified the clerk shot Sunday in broad daylight in a 7-Eleven store on the 16th Street Mall as 37-year-old Ali Bashir Abu Zama.

Zama was upgraded from critical to serious condition Monday at Denver Health Medical Center.

Meanwhile, the man suspected of shooting Zama in the head — 22-year-old Broderick J. Roddy —was advised this morning in court in the Denver detention facility that he faces attempted murder charges.

His bond was set at $100,000.

Online court records show that Roddy has a criminal record that includes convictions on shoplifting charges in Denver earlier this year.

In June 2006, Roddy pleaded guilty in Fort Worth, Texas, to charges of unlawfully carrying a weapon.

Police said the suspect in the 7-Eleven shooting had been loitering in the store in the Symes Building at 820 16th St. for 10 to 15 minutes when a clerk asked him if he was going to buy anything, according to a co-worker who was in the store at the time.

The clerk told the suspect to leave the premises if he was not going to make a purchase.

Witnesses said the gunman left the store for about 10 to 15 minutes and returned.

He began to walk down an aisle when the same clerk approached him and told him, "I asked you to leave the store if you're not going to buy anything," according to witnesses.

That's when the suspect turned around and shot him.

Police arrested Roddy at 19th and Arapahoe streets shortly after the shooting.