Map: Blitz of 7-Eleven robberies on 7/11 leaves 2 dead in Southern California

A person gunman is suspected in at least 3 of a string of pre-dawn robberies Monday at 7-Eleven suppliers in Southern California. 5 individuals were being shot for the duration of the crimes, and two of them have died.

Six robberies transpired among midnight and 5 a.m. on Monday — July 11, the working day when the nationwide 7-Eleven brand name celebrates its anniversary and presents out cost-free Slurpee drinks.

“There’s no way it can be a coincidence of it becoming 7/11, July 11,” stated Officer Ryan Railsback, a spokesperson for the Riverside Law enforcement Section.

The shops have been within just a 15-mile radius in San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange counties.

Surveillance photographs, released by Upland and Brea law enforcement, demonstrate a masked man carrying a black sweatshirt with a hood over his head. The sweatshirt has white lettering and pictures of green leaves on the entrance.

When law enforcement in La Habra, Brea and Santa Ana have stated they believe that they are searching for the very same suspect, officials in Ontario, Upland and Riverside have not but designed that perseverance.

In all of the robberies, the culprit displayed a handgun. In the later on four, he opened hearth.

The map previously mentioned shows the sequence of robberies.

1 / Ontario, 12 a.m.

2 / Upland, 12:37 a.m.

3 / Riverside, 1:50 a.m. Customer shot, reported to be in critical ailment.

4 / Santa Ana, 3:25 a.m. Human being located fatally shot in parking lot. It’s not however acknowledged if the sufferer was a shopper or somebody passing by.

5 / Brea, 4:18 a.m. Personnel fatally shot.

6 / La Habra, 4:55 a.m. Two people shot. Their ailments had been not unveiled.

— The Linked Press contributed to this report.