The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office has charged a Chicago man with attempted murder following the shooting this week of two people at the Evergreen Park Walmart store.
Yoseph K. Barnes, 20, was charged Thursday with attempted murder in the incident Oct. 15 at the Walmart store at 95th Street and Western Avenue. Additional charges are pending.
Barnes was captured about 15 minutes in a home’s recycling bin after he shot a 23-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman.
Evergreen Park police said they received a report of an active shooter at the store just before 3 p.m. on Oct. 15.
Responding officers, with the assistance of surrounding agencies, were able to clear the store and located two victims with gunshot wounds.
The 23-year-old male victim was located with multiple gunshots to the leg and was transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. His condition is unknown.
The 70-year-old female victim, described as an innocent bystander, was also transported to Christ with a gunshot wound to the foot. She was listed in good condition.
Police said the victim arrived at the store and while he was walking into the store, Barnes allegedly gunman got out of a Gray Hyundai and chased the victim into the store while shooting. The victim was shot five times in the leg. Police said they seemed to know each other.
“The offender ran out through the back door of the store over here, yes, and did go into the neighborhood, but he was arrested within a short period of time after that. We flooded the area with police and we did have a drone up there that saw him in a yard and a resident did call him in,” Evergreen Park Police Chief Michael Saunders said Wednesday. “We don’t believe the female victim that was in front of the store knew the offender or knew the other individual, but it could have been a direct shot, it could have been a ricochet; we don’t know.”
Witnesses told police the direction in which the gunman fled.
Officers conducted a search of the area and subsequently located the gunman and he was taken into custody about 15 minutes later in the 9300 block of Country Club Drive. The vehicle he arrived in was later located by Chicago police in the 800 block of West Marquette and transported to the Evergreen Park Police Station along with the vehicle occupants.
Barnes was scheduled for a detention hearing Friday at the Bridgeview Courthouse.
Police said detectives are in the process of reviewing surveillance video and interviewing store employees.
The store was closed Thursday but reopened to the public on Friday.
If anyone has information, please contact the Evergreen Park Police Department at 708-422-2144.