Two men were charged Tuesday in St. Clair County for their alleged role in a shooting at the Shiloh supermarket earlier this month.
Anthony D. White, 20, of the 2300 block of Richland Prairie in Shiloh, has been charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and aggravated discharge of a firearm, a class 1 misdemeanor. Steven L. Hawkins, 24, of the 100 block of York Port Drive, also in Shiloh, faces a single charge of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
Warrants have been issued for their arrest.
According to the Shiloh Police Department, officers were dispatched to the Kingsmart Conoco at 1615 Hartman Lane on April 3 around 7:30 p.m.
A verbal altercation inside the store “got out of hand” and spilled into the parking lot.
“One individual displayed a firearm inside the store during the altercation,” according to a Shiloh Police Department news release. “The situation escalated to the parking lot where the second individual retrieved a firearm from his vehicle. He then fired multiple rounds in the direction of the other person’s vehicle as he drove away from the business.
No one was struck by the gunfire, police said, but “customers of the business and residents in the surrounding neighborhood were placed in unnecessary danger.”
