Web Extra! Updated 7/10/10 8:26 a.m.
An employee of a Brookfield liquor store, who was shot during an apparent robbery late Friday night, has died.
A spokesman for the the Cook County Medical Examiner confirmed that 38-year-old Bashar Fakhouri, of Alsip, died last night as a result of his wounds. An autopsy is scheduled for today.
Fakhouri, known to customers as Bob, was inside Phoenix Liquors, at 8814 Ogden Ave., when two men reportedly attempted to rob the business. At 10:27 p.m. Friday, Brookfield police got a 911 call about shots having been fired, according to a press release issued by the police department this morning. Fakhouri was found lying face-down on the floor of the business with a gunshot wound to his head, according to police.
Police from Brookfield and surrounding agencies set up a perimeter around the area. K-9 units and officers carrying automatic weapons scoured the area looking for the two suspects, who reportedly fled north on foot along Custer Avenue. Ogden Avenue between Custer and Prairie was closed to traffic until well after midnight.
Brookfield police Lt. James Episcopo confirmed that a handgun had been recovered from the area, but declined to provide additional details.
“We recovered a weapon, but we’re still investigating what the weapon may have had to do with our incident,” Episcopo said.
No one is in custody at this time.
7/10/2010 12:13 a.m.
Police are searching for two men they suspect of robbing a Brookfield liquor store late Friday night and shooting an employee.
Officers responded to Phoenix Liquors, 8814 Ogden Ave., at about 10:30 p.m. Friday. Paramedics were seen taking a man from the building on a stretcher and performing chest compressions on him, according to witnesses. One witness said that, just after the shooting, an unidentified man outside the store shouted, “They got everything.”
Police have set up a perimeter around the area, from Custer to Prairie avenues. K-9 units and officers carrying automatic weapons are searching the area for the suspects, who reportedly fled north on foot.
No information was immediately available about the condition of the man who was shot.