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A manhunt is underway for at least two people who shot an innocent woman to death inside a vehicle at a Hammond gas station early yesterday morning. Police Chief Edwin Bergeron Jr. said while one car was at a gas pump, another car pulled up to an adjacent pump.
“The other car pulled up next to it, next to that car, and began shooting. Between 70 and 80 shots were shot into this car,” Bergeron explained.
Two masked men fired between 70 and 80 shots into the car with AR-style pistols. Those shots killed 50-year-old Patricia Sheppard, who was sitting in the passenger seat. Chief Bergeron says this was a targeted shooting, but Sheppard was not the target – she was catching a ride home and was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“The lady in the car, Miss Patricia, who’s lost her life, was an absolute innocent victim in this. She was not involved in it,” Bergeron noted.
Bergeron stresses to the public that there is no imminent threat.
“The citizens of Hammond can feel safe that they know that this was not a random act of violence. This was not just somebody randomly who was getting shot at; this was a targeted incident,” Bergeron said.
Bergeron says the vehicle the shooters were in was carjacked in McComb, Mississippi, Tuesday night.
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