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Woman Killed Following Black Friday Shooting In Downtown Chicago Nordstrom
For most people "a deal to die for" is just a saying, but tragically for a 22-year-old woman who was working in a Chicago Nordstroms off North Michigan Avenue it became all too real when she shot during Black Friday shopping and died a day later, in what according to initial reports was a domestic-related incident leading to a panicked stampede out of the store by holiday shoppers who were convinced they were caught in the latest Chicago consumerism-gone-wild crossfire.
AP reports that Nadia Ezaldein, 22, who was a seasonal employee at the store, was pronounced dead at 3:43 p.m. on Saturday. Authorities say the shooter was 31-year-old Marcus Dee, who fired on Ezaldein before killing himself.
Officers found her dead when they arrived Friday night at the store along Chicago's Magnificent Mile shopping district. The store was closed Saturday and was to reopen on Sunday. Nordstrom spokeswoman Tara Darrow called the shootings a "really sad and scary situation." She says the company is doing its best to support employees.
According to the Chicago Tribune, the 31-year-old shooter was targeting his "girlfriend or ex-girlfriend," said John Escalante, chief of detectives for the Chicago Police Department.
"She was working up on the second floor when he approached her, fired one shot, which struck her," Escalante said on the scene. "He then turned the gun to himself and shot and killed himself."
Responders found the gunman dead when they arrived, and the 22-year-old woman was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition, Escalante said. The shooting happened about 8:30 p.m. Friday.
More from the Tribune:
According to a police report, the shooter, identified as Marcus Dee, approached the woman at the store and they spoke with each other. He took out a gun, and as the woman walked away from him, he shot her in the head/neck area before shooting himself in the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene at approximately 10:23 p.m., the report said.
The crowded store, at 55 E. Grand Ave. in the Shops at North Bridge mall on North Michigan Avenue, was hurriedly emptied of holiday shoppers after the shooting, according to witnesses.
The Nordstrom store will be closed Saturday, according to its website. The other stores in the shopping center are open Saturday, according to mall.
"This is an active scene, an ongoing investigation, but again I can tell you it is domestic-related," Escalante said.
To the present masses of people chasing after Black Friday deals in the store, the cause for the shooting was irrelevant: shoppers at the store described panic and chaos caused by the shooting.
Michelle Smith, 47, was buying purses with her daughter Krystal, 25, when they suddenly heard two gunshots right after the other. "It was a pow and a pow," said Michelle Smith. "It was a stampede coming down the escalator."
Suzanne Nanos-Gusching was on the third floor with her daughter who was trying on a dress for a sorority formal at the University of Michigan when shots rang out. Soon after, employees were trying to clear the building.
"We just saw people running out, and they (the employees) rushed her to get dressed," said Nanos-Gusching. "They were adamant about getting us out of the building."
Michael Nelson, who works at a watch boutique in the Nordstrom building in the mall, said he saw people clamoring to leave without realizing what had happened. "They looked scared, people were falling over each other (to get out)," said Nelson.
The only silver lining: the murder was not related to angry - and well-armed - Black Friday Chicago shoppers taking each other out in pursuit of the latest "must have" 55 inch LCD TV.
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We shot some folks
And reduced population, per agenda 21.
Chicago needs to make owning a hand gun illegal to stop this kind of this from happening again !
Come February 14th, Obunghole has another Chicago St. Valentine's Day Massacre as an excuse to infringe on Americans 2nd Amendment rights.
dammit tyler!
stop with the auto-playing video bullshit
Just another day in Chicongo.
Close.
Shitcongo.
A monkey can't fire a gun, or open a knife with boxing gloves on..
Remember that one???
Al? Jesse???
buy or die..
Oh, as if making something illegal will make it go away? Are the people of ZH becoming as stupid as the MSM consumers?
You may have missed the sarc. I believe handguns are already illegal in Chicago
Lemmee see here..... where is the outrage and divisive overreaction by the likes of alcrapton, scrotumfaceholder and the incompetent corrupt arrogant narcissistic illegal indonesian kenyan alien muslim sociopathic pathological liar in chief fudgepacker?
When negros kill negros, nobody seems to mind. Black Friday, indeed.
Domestic related. Meaning it had nothing to do with Black Friday, Nordstrom or American consumerism. Fucking drama queen asshole clickbaiters!
Absolutely true and I am ashamed I fell for it. What the pity is they never report the entire story and dynamic that was involved and the unsophisticated simply come up with the conclusions they are led to draw. This is Yellow Journalism at its finest.
Miffed
They've been doing this a lot recently. First the ads and now this. Zerohedge, stick to the real market related stories and don't turn into CNBC.
I keep hearing the Elvis song Clambake, with the lyrics, "Clickbait".
I knew the whole story clicking in I just wanted to see the ZH spin job.
Word is, she was a mudshark
No surprise, really....
Black Friday, a deal to die for, LOL!
get rich or die trying. - Fiddy
Tragic but a little out of context for ZH, no?
Sunday, a slow financial news day, but an excellent opportunity to bait the click hook.
Either that, or they go back to posting once every three hours like they did previously.
Well I dont think anyone actually died in the course of Black Friday this year, so a domestic murder assault in a retail store is as close as they could get. Some British women fought over a Barbie doll, but that was about it.
Voted 1 for autoplay and tags incorrectly noting connections with the state and University of Michigan.
collateral damage for Black friday
Would be better if the warthogs fighting over the discount panties were shooting each other with machine guns.
This story is clearly fake. It's illegal to have a gun in Chicano, IL.
O/T sort of... 4 day sales down 11% yoy per wsj.
We clickbaited some folks.
Damn! If only guns were centralized, he would have had to stab her or hit her with a bat.
http://www.top10stop.com/lifestyle/top-10-most-common-murder-weapons
An American, not US subject.
For those that truly understand the true nature of governmnet, the only crime committed here was denying the governmnet goons and thugs the ability to kill her.
{ R E } A C T I O N
Not much media coverage of the Austin shooter who attacked the Mexican Consulate. They don't want to inspire any copycats when their agenda is the target.
Up here in Canada, there was lots of coverage (for a while) then it disappeared.
They're still beating us over our heads with Big Mike Brown. I'd like to see some sympathy for the Austin shooter from the media, the way they've made excuses for the rampaging black community in Ferguson, lol.
Shop til u drop?
Who the hell cares? Some of these posts are purposeful stupidity. You WANT to make America look bad. This animal was in a relationship with the broad. Had nothing to do with "Black Friday" in any way, shape or form.
So youre saying she was into beastiality?
On first flash-crash day, May 6, 2010, the same thing happened in Chicago at one of the large department stores, and actually happens frequently in the city... and sorry to say in the suburbs too.
Why is it that men murder women thinking it's going to solve their (the man's) problem?
Too bad this latest dead lady didn't have her gun with her. Oh, sorry, I forgot, Chicago's STILL a gun free zone despite the fact that it's in IL where there's concealed carrry, thank God.
But Chicago's only gun-free for women, children, and other defenseless creatures.
Thank's Rahm. Hope you're gone soon, but not to another job. And hey, Chicago voters... KEEP VOTING DEMOCRAT!
http://tavernkeepers.com/gun-free-zone-success-story/
For God's sake, when will they ban murder?
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Never happened. Guns are illegal in Chicago.
Yeah. Every time I read this kind of story I think about how lucky Chicago is to have gun-control.
Inconsiderate bastard. Should have used a silencer so they could keep on shopping.
Not possible. Strictest gun laws in nation.
Seriously though, this is BIG news? happens everyday on south side, but I guess nobody cares much about black on black killings.
What a loser this cunt is! 31 going on 15, dead. Thoughts with the girl and her family.
I'd like some spin with my turkey noodle soup, you huffington post, daily mail mutherfuckers.
Double post, somehow.
Girls; no matter how liberal and smart you are, mudsharkin' is dangerous.
In other news, a rogue hunter shot a turkey in the meat freezer at the local Walmart here. The shoppers in the grocery section were terrified.
Thank God! Clark Griswald survived.