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A 25-year-old Detroit man was killed and two others were injured Tuesday in a shooting in a barbershop on the west side.
Police said JaRon Gist was being pursued by a man with a handgun when Gist ran into the Visible Change in the 9100 block of Dexter at Joy about 10:30 a.m. He was fatally shot.
A 47-year-old customer and the shop's 59-year-old barber were caught in the cross fire, police said. Both were seriously injured and were being treated at a hospital, but no report on their conditions was available Tuesday evening, Detroit police spokesman Officer Phillip Cook said.
Gist, a community college student, was the father of six young children, said his cousin Angelique Gist, 39, of Detroit ...
http://www.freep.com/article/20120801/NEWS01/308010170/Man-killed-2-wounded-in-Detroit-barbershop-shooting
August 1, 2012 at 8:57 am
Bystanders caught up in shootout at Detroit barbershop
1 dead, 2 injured at Detroit neighborhood's gathering spot
By George Hunter
Detroit The Visible Change barbershop is described by customers as a quiet gathering spot ...
JaRon Gist, 24, known in the neighborhood as "Little J.R.," was killed in a 10:30 a.m. shooting in the shop at Joy Road and Dexter Boulevard, when witnesses said a man opened fire inside. Gist shot back, witnesses said, and amid the hail of gunfire, barber Stanley Kirby, 60, was shot five times in the chest and abdomen, while longtime customer Gary Anderson was hit in the hand ...
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120801/METRO01/208010361