The woman was grabbing the last of her groceries from the trunk of her car when the rifle fire began early Monday. Dozens of rapid shots.

She shut the trunk and dove into the backseat.

"I'm in a shootout," she remembered thinking. "It was so loud. I don't know what type of guns they had. It was just ridiculous."

The woman stayed in her car until she heard police sirens. When she got out, she saw a bicycle on the sidewalk across the street and a man who appeared to be dead.

"It was too close," she said hours later near her Chicago Lawn home on the Southwest Side. "Luckily, I parked on this side of the street."

Police say the victim, a 26-year-old man, had been standing next to a car in the 3000 block of West 60th Street about 12:10 a.m. Monday when someone in a passing tan sedan opened fire, hitting him several times.

He died at the scene. Police reported no one in custody.

Officers placed more than 20 evidence markers in the middle of the road, near an alley and on a grassy area in front of a brick apartment building. Rifle casings were found at the scene, according to preliminary information from a law enforcement source.

A teary-eyed man paced outside the crime scene. He made phone calls and spoke to people who stopped by.

Inside an apartment building near the shooting, a woman said she had reached for her phone to browse Facebook when she heard what sounded like "100 shots."

She turned her phone off because she didn't want the light from the screen attracting attention. "I'm almost 50 years old," she said. "I go to work and come home. All of these are young kids."

Up the block of homes and apartment buildings, Juan Alderete was watching the movie "Trolls" with his 7-year-old daughter. It's her favorite movie.

He said he heard 40 to 50 shots so loud he thought they were right outside his apartment. Alderete told his daughter to get on the floor.

"Dad, it's fireworks," the young girl told him.

He put his daughter on the floor. "Stay down," he told her. "Don't get up."

The girl stayed inside with her mother while Alderete went to check if his wife's car had been damaged by the gunfire.

They've lived in the neighborhood for about a month. They had lived farther south in the city, but the young family was forced to find a new place after their landlord sold the home they were renting.

"I'm going to have to break the lease and move back," he said, standing just outside the crime scene. "Because this is scary."