Forest Park Wilebeast rob's whitie of cell phone then returns it for cash but decides to shoot the owner instead

A man trying to get his cell phone back was shot near a Forest Park store today when he refused a demand for money, police said.

Details were preliminary but police said the man who lost his cell phone had called his own number, and the person who answered agreed to meet to return the phone.

About 2:55 p.m. the two men met outside a 7-Eleven store at Roosevelt Road and Des Plaines Avenue in Forest Park, when the man who had the cell phone demanded money for its return, said Forest Park Police Sgt. Tim Adams.

The phone's owner refused, and the man who had the phone shot the owner before running away, Adams said. He was still being sought this afternoon.

The phone owner was taken to Loyola University Hospital in unknown condition.