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Jarvis Coleman, a 24-year-old African American man, was shot and killed on March 22, 2016, in the West Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago. The shooting happened about 3:45 p.m. in the parking lot of a Quick Market at 2 North Keeler Avenue. Surveillance footage shows a man later identified as John Montgomery approach Coleman, produce a loaded semi-automatic handgun, and fire multiple times while Coleman tried to flee. Coleman was struck in the upper right chest, upper left thigh, buttocks, left flank, and left forearm, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Several fired cartridge cases were recovered at the scene and ballistics testing linked casings and bullets to the handgun recovered after the suspect fled.

Detectives encountered Montgomery about four hours later near the 200 block of North Karlov Avenue. Witnesses alerted officers to his location and he was apprehended within 20 minutes. Montgomery was charged with first-degree murder in Coleman’s death and with multiple counts of attempted first-degree murder for shooting at the officers; he was held without bail.

Are there witnesses who saw the moments before the shooting at the Quick Market who can add details about what led up to the attack?