NEWARK, N.J. (1010 WINS) — A New Jersey grocery store owner was fatally struck by a stray bullet while he was inside his corner store this week.
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Rabel Ramos-Gomez, 46, was shot while working inside his R&A Supermarket on the 200 block of South 10th Street in Newark on Sunday afternoon, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said Monday.
Marisol Mendez, who was inside the store at the time, told WCBS-TV about the moment gunfire rang out.
"We heard the shooting," she said. "We all ducked. When we got up, we thought we were being robbed."
Ramos-Gomez — the only person struck and killed — was working in the kitchen at the time, according to WABC-7.
A law enforcement source told the ABC station that a car drove up and fired shots that flew into the store.
Mendez told CBS 2 that it gunfire sounded like it came from "a machine gun."
"We didn't know where it came from. We never saw it," she said. "We heard the boom, boom, boom, one after the other, like a machine gun."
Ramos-Gomez was pronounced dead at 4:15 p.m, the prosecutor's office said.
It's unclear who was the intended target of the shooting.
The investigation is ongoing and no arrests have been made at this time.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Essex County Prosecutor's Office tips line at 1-877-TIPS-4EC.
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