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Chicago police put up crime scene tape at a convenience store in the Loop where a man was found shot this morning.
A man was found shot to death in the back of a convenience store at Wabash Avenue and Jackson Street in the Loop this morning, police said.
Police were notified of the shooting at about 8 a.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Michael Sullivan. A co-worker had found the man in a back room of the store in the 200 block of South Wabash Avenue, Sullivan said. He had been shot in the head.
The victim was in his 40s, Sullivan said. He did not know if a gun was found on the scene.
Clarence Shearer said he was in a nearby Starbucks when he heard sirens and came outside, where he saw police outside the store.
Shearer, 42, said he had been in the store a handful of times.
"I thought maybe it was just a robbery until I got out here and started hearing stories, and, you know, it just doesn't look very good at this point," he said.
Clusters of people have gathered along Wabash since police arrived, speculating about what happened and watching forensics investigators come and go from the store.
Brian Hecht, 36, an attorney who works down the street from the store, said the store serves a mix of DePaul students, people who work in the area and homeless people.
Hecht said the employee he usually saw in the store is a "real nice guy, a real low-key guy."
"He seemed to treat everybody the same," said Hecht, who did not know if the employee he was describing was the person who was found dead.
Several people said a security guard was usually inside the store when it was open.