My opinion (and I emphasize opinion) is that Alsanai knew everyone’s business and was aware his ‘gas station homeys’ wanted to kill Jessica. So when she showed up at the Gas Station/Store, he dropped a dime.
According to the info in the article he comes from a culture that allows you to kill a woman for infidelity(even if only alleged), so it was no big deal to him.
As good a theory as any, at this point.
He definitely seems to be hiding something, especially with the altered video.