SHOCK VIDEO: 71 Year Old Asian Man Murdered In Broad Daylight For No Apparent Reason In Chicago

CHICAGO (CBS) — A 71-year-old man was shot and killed on a Chinatown sidewalk in broad daylight Tuesday.

As CBS 2’s Suzanne Le Mignot reported, police said the victim was just heading to the store to buy a newspaper when someone opened fire.

At 12:30 p.m., the man was walking on the sidewalk in the 200 block of West 23rd Place, off Wentworth Avenue, when someone pulled up and shot the victim from a silver two-door car, police said.

The gunman then got out of the car and shot the victim additional times before getting back in the car and driving away, police said. On Tuesday night, a blue car parked nearby remained at the scene with a bullet hole in its hood.

The crime scene is across the street from John C. Haines Elementary School. There were children inside the school at the time.

The victim was rushed to Stroger Hospital of Cook County, where he was pronounced dead.

Police arrested the suspected gunman at Jackson Boulevard and the Kennedy Expressway. He was being questioned by Area Four detectives late Tuesday, and a weapon was also recovered.

Police sources tell us the suspected killer is in his 20s and has a criminal record, and they say the initial investigation shows the murder appears to be random.