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In Depth
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
‘SENSELESS’
Magnet community is left with more
questions than answers after 36
year-old Jeffrey Pitts killed store
owner, Mun Cha, and father of three,
Jimquez Aiken, over unpaid tab.
BY MARTIN RAND III
As a mountain of flowers, bears, candles and hand
drawn cards grows around the Magnet Package
Shop, more customers reflect on the kindness of the
store’s owner, Mun Hyuk Cha, and what some have
called a “senseless” act of violence.
The violence stems from 36-year-old Rockdale
County resident Jeffrey Pitts, who killed the
liquor-store owner Sunday afternoon inside the
shop after a disagreement involving a previous
unpaid transaction. Pitts also killed a customer
who was inside the shop at the time, and then he
went to his 3535 Ebenezer Road residence and
shot his mother in the arm and father in the head.
Carrolton County resident Dionne Ellison-Gower
took a two-hour trip to Rockdale in order to pay
respects to Cha and place flowers at the memorial.
“My husband and I used to live right down
here,” she told The News. “My husband owned
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CALLS FOR HELP
Calls to 911 on Sunday,
May 31, after Jeffrey
Pitts went on his
shooting rampage at
the Magnet Bottle
Shop and at the home
he shared with his
parents.