AURORA | Nearly a week after a man was shot in the leg in a bustling grocery store parking lot in broad daylight police have released few details about the case.
Police said the shooting happened shortly before noon Thursday, Nov. 12, in the parking lot of the Safeway at 18730 E. Hampden Ave. One person was shot in the leg and was expected survive, police said.
Police did not release any information about a possible suspect last week.
As of Nov. 18, police had not made an arrest, said Aurora police spokesman Sgt. Chris Amsler, and investigators still did not have any suspect information to release.
A witness at the scene said he and a friend pulled up in their car into the parking lot of the store at East Hampden Avenue and Tower Road when they noticed some kind of skirmish between two or three Hispanic males and another man.
At one point someone threw a snowball at the man’s car, and the witness said it appeared they were “messing” with the car and the driver. Just then, about four shots were fired, and the witnesses hit the ground and then ran to a nearby liquor store. Inside, they were telling store owners to call police. Two men then ran inside, one of them shot in the leg with blood all over his shirt.
The wounded man was “skinny” and the other heavier man was helping him. The heavier man told the shooting victim, “We gotta get outta here,” and the two left. According to the witness’ account, the wounded man was one of the men harassing the man who shot him.
It’s unclear whether an ambulance transported the victim to a nearby hospital or whether someone the victim knew took drove him for help.