Friday, January 25, 2008
* Mini-Mart Owner Murdered in Broad Daylight (Updated 5X)
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Breaking News - 2:00 PM: Sounds like we've got a homicide on our hands in 24. Crime lab on scene. Still trying to get the location.
Unconfirmed e-mail - 2:23 PM: Incident occurred around 11am today. The address is approx. 1215 West Devon. It was a mini-mart, and the owner was shot twice. Stumbled outside, unknown if robbery was the motive.
The offender is described as a male, unknown race. Grey pants, black leather 3/4 length jacket, bright tan work boots. Fled westbound from the location and cut north.
Blognotes: Because us bloggers aren't considered real news people, the City and Police Department won't give us any info. I couldn't find anything on the Alderman's or DevCorp North's website either. And not having a local news reporter around to find out what's going on, this is the best you're going to get.
Updated - 3:35 PM: Channel 5.
Updated - 4:00 PM: Jason Meisner at the Tribune finally gets his report up. (Jason, please send check for the legwork.)
Updated - 4:05 PM: Loyola University Alert.
Loyola Community,
On Friday, January 25, at approximately 11 a.m., a male entered the Edgewater Mini-Mart, located at 1215 W. Devon. Several minutes later, the owner stumbled out the front door of the Mini-Mart and fell to the street.
He had been shot and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The lone offender is described as follows: male, approximately 5'10" - 6' tall, wearing a green hooded sweatshirt covered by a black leather jacket, gray pants, and tan work boots. If you see an individual fitting this description, please call 911 immediately, as this person is armed and dangerous.
Bernard Ward
Director, Campus Safety
Updated - 4:45 PM: Channel 7.
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It took the Tribune 7 minutes to check the story out. LOL.
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Here we go again.
This is just too tragic. I knew that store owner. Not by name, just by sight.
He was a nice, quiet man, decent to everyone.
Something bad has taken root in south Rogers Park, just as we thought we had made some strides.
It feels like there's a new group of thugs in the area.
My profound sympathy for the survivors.
Craig, I read on the news that the victim still lives (though barely).
Do you know for sure that he died?
It's still hideous and tragic, even if he survives.
Check out a bad building at 1735 W. Pratt. Friend of mine looking for a nice apt in these parts said that she checked this place out and it was unbelievably filthy, reeking of urine, booze, and other filth, and looked to be inhabited by gang people from all the graffitti.
I haven't gotten over there to check the place out yet.
This place could be the locus of the crime wave that has hit the south end of the neighborhood lately.
Scanner reports the store owner was clearly shot to death.
The offender was a male......what? Black,white,asian,spanish,what? Anybody know? Why is the newsmedia afraid to publish the bad guys race?
BTW, this is one more example of why all law abiding citizens should be allowed to carry or possess weapons.
Looks like you got the story before the big boys did. They should sent you a check. BTW, how did you get that Street View in your blog post?
Google gives you the download application when you type in the address you want on google maps. You have to click street view tag in the upper right hand side of the screen. All you do is cut and patse the code in the blog. Then, wah-la.
i know the guy personally. he came last night to check up on me and my place before leaving. he knocked twice on my window, looked in, waved to us, and left. that was the last time i saw him alive.
as far as the guys discription, he was about 6ft tall, wearing a long black jacket over a green hoodie, gray pants, and tan boots. in the surveillance videos, the suspect walked by edgewater mart, and went westbound till he disappeared from camera view. he was holding a jansport black backpack. 3 minutes later, he returned without a backpack. walked in, shot kc, within 10 seconds. KC was the first to run out of the mart, fell to the ground as he tripped, and a about 3 seconds later the gunman walked out. Gunman was about to run, slowed down, looked over as he seemed to be stuffing his pocket with something, possibly the gun. He then walked away and headed towards Magnolia street.
my prayers are with his family, his son, wife, and his brother gabriel.
Thanks for the desciption John. But I still want to know WHAT HIS RACE WAS! Should we be looking for a black man, a white man, an asian man, a hispanic man?
Tragic, you leave your home one day and its over. What a waste, and for a couple of bucks.
thats what we were trying to figure out. his face looked to be light from the camera. I would expect it to be hispanic. my other friend who actually bumped into the guy the first time the gunmen i guess scoped the place out as he walked by the mini mart, says he was light black. My friend was running to get inside because it was so cold, as he ran he bumped into the gunman, before anything happened. My friend said, "im sorry" and just continued running into the mechanic shop. The gunman just kept on walking west.
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