CHICAGO — Police have released photos of men they say were involved in a shooting death at a Family Dollar store in Auburn Gresham and a separate armed robbery.
On Tuesday, manager Jquinn McCune was shot and killed while trying to stop a shoplifter at the store in the 7900 block of South Ashland Avenue, police said. Images of that man were caught on surveillance photos.
Police also released surveillance photos of a man who they said robbed a store in the 7300 block of South Ashland Avenue at gunpoint on June 15.
The men were black, 20-29 years old, 5-foot-8 to 6-foot-1 and 150 to 180 pounds, police said. During both incidents, the man who was had a gun had left cloth or gauze over his left eye.
Anyone with information about the men is asked to call police at 312-747-8273.
Images of the men:
The incident occurred around 5 p.m. McCune, 30, who moved to Chicago from Flint, Mich., was shot in the chest. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Online, people who said they had worked for McCune or shopped at the Family Dollar said he would be missed. One woman described him as "kind and patient" with children and had always made her "shopping experience nice."
"If you needed something he would help you," one person wrote on Facebook. "He was just trying to work for his family."
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