Chicago police were searching for multiple suspects after three people were shot following a robbery outside a Jewel-Osco in the city’s Bronzeville neighborhood on Tuesday, authorities said.
About 10:52 a.m. two suspects entered a Jewel-Osco in the 400 block of east 34th St. and took merchandise that was displayed, according to police. As the suspects attempted to leave, a 46-year-old man attempted to intervene. The suspects then fired shots in the man’s direction, police said.
The man was struck by gunfire and transported to an area hospital in serious condition, authorities said. A 29-year-old woman was shot in her foot and hospitalized in stable condition. A third person, a 67-year-old woman, sustained a graze wound to her left foot and declined EMS at the scene.
Photos and video from the scene showed the large police presence, which also included an ambulance, near the grocery store at the intersection of 33rd Place and South Rhodes Avenue.
One witness said she was grocery shopping and about to check out when she heard gunshots.
““it was like rapid pop, pop, pop, pop like that,” witness Debra Pleasant said. “It wasn’t like no machine gun or nothing like that, but it was, it was rapid enough… was able to hear it. And I went in the cooler, one of the workers back there were like, miss, miss, miss. and I’m like, ‘Oh, they shooting out there,’ and so I’m running for cover.”
A statement from Jewel Osco sent to NBC Chicago said the store was working with the Chicago Police Department on the investigation.
No one was in custody as of Tuesday evening, police said.
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