A 71-year old Chicago man was executed a block from his Chinatown home on his way to buy a newspaper Tuesday afternoon.
Dramatic footage reveals the moment Woom Sing Tse, a retired restaurateur, was walking by the Haines Elementary School, in Chinatown, when a silver two-door car slows by him.
The unidentified driver pulls out a gun and begins shooting Tse, who falls to the ground.
The driver parks, steps out of the vehicle, and continues to unload his gun on the wounded man, killing him.
Tse, a Chinese immigrant who's lived in America for nearly 50 years, was taken to the nearby Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Woom Sing Tse, 71, a retired Chinatown restaurant owner, was shot multiple times in the head and executed in a random attack on Tuesday afternoon
Tse was on his way to buy a newspaper for his wife at a store just down the block from his home
A silver two-door car drives by just as Tse is walking and begins opening fire at the man
The driver steps out of the vehicle to kill Tse, who was lying injured on the ground
Chicago police arrested a suspect a short time later on the Kennedy Expressway near Jackson, and a gun was recovered, NBC 5 reported. Charges are pending, and police have yet to reveal a motive behind the grizzly murder.
Police said the investigation is on-going.
Tse's son, William, called the murder 'senseless' and told the Chicago Sun Times that he had eaten lunch with his father just before the murder.
William said his mother wanted to go buy a newspaper, but Tse volunteered to go instead because it was too cold outside.
William added that his sister works at the Haines Elementary School, where some of the young students witnessed the shooting.
'I was actually at recess, I was by the gate of the shooting, and my teacher told me her dad got shot,' Malyaiya White, a 4th grade student, told Fox.
The shooting triggered a lockdown at the school as White said she heard at least 13 shots fired.
'It was really dark, and my friend was crying and panicking. Others were on their phones. The teacher was terrified as well — she was just sitting there she wasn't saying a thing,' eight grader Demiyah Johnson said.
Tse, pictured with his family, was a father of three and grandfather of nine
The driver walks away and goes back into his car after leaving Tse for dead
Chicago police arrested the suspect on the Kennedy Expressway in Jackson
Charges are pending, and police have yet to reveal a motive behind the grizzly murder
William said his dad was a staple in the community who opened two restaurants in Chinatown and took care of his three children and nine grandchildren.
'My dad was the epitome of the immigrant coming to America and taking chances,' William told the Sun Times.
He added that with his father gone, he doesn't think his mother will be able to 'walk in Chinatown anymore.'
