CHICAGO (WLS) -- Charges are pending against two men, after a dramatic attempted theft on the South Side, Chicago police said.

CPD responded just before 6:15 p.m. Wednesday to a DG Market in the 500-block of East Pershing Road.

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Kizzie Davis was in the store at the time.

"It could've been a hostage situation. Somebody could've had a gun," she said.

Davis was in the checkout line in Bronzeville, when the store's metal security gate suddenly came down.

"I see a young male run to the door, and was like, 'you know, you guys are locking me in?' And so I'm like, 'oh God, they're trying to steal,'" Davis said.

Davis said at least two, possibly three, thieves wearing masks were in the store. She and others scrambled to the back, and ca

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