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A family is heartbroken after a California grandfather was fatally shot while trying to apologize for a fender bender.
Police say that on Feb. 5, Shawntece Norton, 37, shot 59-year-old Jonathan Mauk to death in a Walmart parking lot in Highland.
"He's been a solid foundation for all of us. The loss is immeasurable," the victim's oldest son, Matthew Mauk, told local news station KABC.
The younger Mauk said his father went to Walmart to run errands when he was shot and killed.
According to the San Bernardino Police Department, Jonathan Mauk arrived at the Walmart parking lot at around 8 p.m. and was searching for an open spot. As he maneuvered his vehicle through an aisle, the female suspect, Norton, was backing out of a parking spot.
"For whatever reason, the victim stopped and slowly backed his vehicle up, and that’s when he had a collision with the suspect’s vehicle," Capt. Nelson Carrington told KTLA.
Police said no one was hurt in the collision and that the minor fender bender resulted in just a scratch or two, KTLA reported.