The Rockdale News Rockdale News Digital Edition June 3, 2015 | Page 4

In Depth Wednesday, June 3, 2015 ‘SENSELESS’ Magnet community is left with more questions than answers after 36 year-old Jeffrey Pitts killed store owner, Mun Cha, and father of three, Jimquez Aiken, over unpaid tab. BY MARTIN RAND III As a mountain of flowers, bears, candles and hand drawn cards grows around the Magnet Package Shop, more customers reflect on the kindness of the store’s owner, Mun Hyuk Cha, and what some have called a “senseless” act of violence. The violence stems from 36-year-old Rockdale County resident Jeffrey Pitts, who killed the liquor-store owner Sunday afternoon inside the shop after a disagreement involving a previous unpaid transaction. Pitts also killed a customer who was inside the shop at the time, and then he went to his 3535 Ebenezer Road residence and shot his mother in the arm and father in the head. Carrolton County resident Dionne Ellison-Gower took a two-hour trip to Rockdale in order to pay respects to Cha and place flowers at the memorial. “My husband and I used to live right down here,” she told The News. “My husband owned READ MORE CALLS FOR HELP Calls to 911 on Sunday, May 31, after Jeffrey Pitts went on his shooting rampage at the Magnet Bottle Shop and at the home he shared with his parents.