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Woman Killed, Two Wounded in Englewood Convenience Store Parking Lot

By Josh McGhee | November 20, 2014 7:54am | Updated on November 20, 2014 1:33pm
 A shooting in the parking lot outside Loomis Food Mart in West Englwood left a woman dead, and her two companions wounded.
A shooting in the parking lot outside Loomis Food Mart in West Englwood left a woman dead, and her two companions wounded.
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CHICAGO — Muhammad Muthana wasn't sure what he was looking at on the surveillance cameras when he saw a young man approach a car outside the West Englewood grocery store where he works Wednesday evening.

But once the loud, familiar sound of gunshots began seconds later there was no time for fear - just reaction, he said.

"I just locked the door. There were customers inside and just them outside. We didn't have enough time to be scared," said the clerk, who has worked at the store for about seven years.

Muthana saw a man wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt and camouflage pants approach a car in the parking lot of the Loomis Food Mart, 6859 S. Loomis Blvd., before he and the other employees heard about eight to 10 gunshots, which they believe could've come from two different guns, Muthana said.

The shooter ran around the gate that separates the parking lot from a home and the car took off. The whole ordeal only took a few seconds, he said.

A woman was killed in the shooting, which also wounded two companions, police said.

The three were in a car in the 6800 block of South Loomis Avenue shortly before 6:30 p.m. when someone walked up and fired into the car, said Officer Ana Pacheco, a Chicago Police Department spokeswoman.

Someone in the car drove the victims to Holy Cross Hospital, where the 25-year-old woman, who had been shot in her torso, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m., authorities said.

The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office identified her as Krystal Jackson, of the 7700 block of South Saginaw Avenue

A 27-year-old man who had been shot multiple times in the head and shoulder was transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.

A 21-year-old woman who had been shot in the leg was in good condition at Holy Cross, Pacheco said.

No one is in custody in the shootings, Pacheco said.

Debbie Brame moved back to the block where the shooting took place last year to be with her mother, who has lived there for more than 40 years.

Since she's moved back, she's heard gunshots more often, though they rarely end in homicides like this one, Brame said.

"I was so shocked," Brame said. The shooting hasn't phased her, she said, but hearing that people were injured was jarring.

"I don't like it and you have to be concerned when it's close to home. This kind of changes it," she said. "But no one's going to move because there was a shooting last night, sad as it sounds. And that's kind of frightening."

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