2011 Chicago shooting

On March 11, 2011, five people were shot, four of them fatally, in Chicago, Illinois. The gunman, identified as 43-year-old Kash Karib, shot and killed two of the victims inside his convenience store and shot the other three outside the building. As a nearby patrol car showed up, Karib shot himself in the head. The incident is the deadliest mass shooting in Chicago since the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929.

Shooting
The shooting began when 17-year-old Michael Milajev went into Karib's convenience store and took a Snicker's bar from the front counter; he began to eat it while mocking Karib and his Muslim reliefs. Milajev turned around, letting Karib pull out his wife's SIG Sauer P226 handgun given to him for protection. He shot twice, hitting a tomato sauce container and a chip bag as Milajev turned around. He dropped the chocolate bar and pleaded for his life but Karib shot him in the leg anyway. 16-year-old Ian Clayimb, an employee of the Kash and Grab and classmate of Mike Milajev, came out and began tending to Milajev's wound while telling Karib to call the police. The latter walked around the counter and shot and killed Milajev and Clayimb.

Security cameras showed Karib simply standing over the bodies for almost twenty seconds before walking back around the front counter and retrieving something out of view; authorities determined it was most likely a second magazine. Karib walked outside and encountered 24-year-old Rachel Hing-Nelson, who had stopped after hearing the gunshots. Karib killed her with one shot to the forehead. 32-year-old Dinah Wilcott, who had also stopped a few feet away from Hing-Nelson, began running away from Karib but was shot in the back, causing her to fall to the sidewalk.

Karib reloaded with a full magazine before shooting the screaming Wilcott twice in the head, killing her. Across the street, 35-year-old Jeremiah Wood Jr. witnessed the shooting and took out his phone to call the police. Karib saw him and began shooting, firing a total of four shots at him. The first two missed, the third one grazing the side of his left arm. The fourth shot hit Wood in the back, causing him to slip and fall into the street. He laid there and "played dead" in hopes of the shooter leaving him. Karib began walking back towards the store when a police cruiser pulled up. Officers Tim McReynolds and Oliver Geharding III were on patrol about a minute away when they heard gunshots and sped over to the scene. Upon seeing the cruiser, Karib used his final bullet to shoot himself in the head.

Victims
Four people were killed in the shooting, all of them died at the scene:


 * Michael "Mike" Milajev, 17
 * Ian Clayimb, 16
 * Rachel Hing-Nelson, 24
 * Dinah Wilcott, 32

35-year-old Jeremiah Lucius Wood Jr. was the sole survivor of the attack. Wood had served seven years in the military, four of which in active combat. He was wearing a winter jacket due to the cold weather; doctors later stated this had helped significantly reduce the amount of damage the bullet could have done to Wood; they also stated had he not been wearing the coat, Wood would have been at greater risk for being permanently paralyzed. The bullet got stuck in the skin, causing basically nothing more than a flesh wound for Wood. He was discharged from the hospital a little over a week later.

Perpetrator
Kash Fakhraddin Karib (September 16, 1967 - March 11, 2011) was the 43-year-old assailant. He was born to Jaheed Selwyn Karib, a wine store owner, and Umi Meena Karib, a former midwife. He grew up in the village of Buffalo, Illinois with his older sister Shaza. He had no prior criminal record and was not known to police. In 1988, Karib's sister Shaza came out as lesbian to her family; due to their Muslim religion and background, she was disowned by her parents and told to never speak to them or her family again. However, Karib secretly kept in contact with her. In 1993, Karib moved to nearby Chicago and opened up a convenience store called "Kash and Grab". He later met and married Linda VanShaueen, a white woman who had converted to Islam and had began to attend his local mosque. The couple had two children together and were talking about having a third, according to his wife.

Another employee, 22-year-old Touiq Rakijit, confirmed Karib and Mike Milajev knew each other; since late 2010, Milajev would repeatedly come to the store and make fun of Kash and the Islam religion.

Aftermath
In January 2012, federal investigators concluded Karib's motive as inconclusive. Originally, it was believed the shooting was an attempted terrorist attack against Americans as all of the deceased victims were white, however this theory was later disregarded as Karib had never shown a distain for white people or America in general.