CHICAGO — A Riverdale woman opened fire on a group of people playing gaming machines at a liquor store in Back of the Yards late Friday, prosecutors said. Part of the incident was caught on video.
Angeles Flores, 21, was unable to attend her detention hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on Monday because she was also shot during the incident and remained hospitalized.
Prosecutors told Judge Luciano Panici, Jr. that surveillance video showed Flores pulling out a gun, racking the slide, and then opening fire on the victims at Goldmore Food & Liquors, 1949 West 51st Street, around 8:34 p.m.
The bullets struck a 22-year-old man in the chest, a 48-year-old man in the abdomen, and a 61-year-old woman in the left elbow, Chicago police said. The men were listed in critical condition, while the woman was said to be in good condition.
Someone else in the group returned fire, striking a 46-year-old man in the hand and hitting Flores in the heel and thigh, officials said.
Flores took herself to Rush Hospital for treatment, and the staff notified CPD that they were treating a gunshot victim, a police report said. Officers who responded to the hospital had already seen surveillance video of the shooting, and they immediately recognized Flores as the shooter based on her clothing and appearance, the report said.
Judge Panici granted a state request to detain Flores pending trial, saying she had “a complete disregard for human life.”
She is charged with three counts of attempted murder and one count of aggravated discharge of a firearm in an occupied building. Flores has never been charged with a crime in Cook County before.
