North Riverside police have released video of a fatal shooting during Sunday’s looting outside the town’s mall.
The 12-second clip shows a gunman in pursuit of another man, who falls to the sidewalk behind an Olive Garden restaurant at North Riverside Park Mall. The gunman, with both hands gripping a weapon, fires multiple times at close range into the fallen man’s body. The gunman turns, runs and gets into a waiting car that then drives off.
The homicide victim was identified Myqwon Blanchard, 22, of Chicago, according to a statement from police Chief Carlos Garcia. Garcia said Blanchard was taken to Loyola University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Blanchard was shot during Sunday’s chaos as people smashed windows and looted the mall and nearby business, police said.
Garcia asks that anyone with information about the shooting or about the suspect call the police tip hotline at (708) 762-5410. Police provided no further description of the suspect or the getaway car.