Family and friends of homicide victim pay tribute and raise money for funeral expenses.

A Salinas convenience store that was the site of brutal violence last Friday night is padlocked now, and littered with cards, flowers and candles. 

Two masked men entered the shop around 9:30pm, and shot the three people at the cash register, killing 62-year-old Sook Mi Oh. Another victim, Oh's sister-in-law, remains in stable but critical condition; a neighbor, who was tending the cash register, was treated and released from the hospital. They were shot when they didn't open the cash register fast enough to the would-be robbers' liking, police report.

Oh was there visiting her late husband's brother and his wife, the owners of Hot Stop. She was shot; her husband was in the back of the store, and emerged immediately after the violent encounter, which lasted barely a minute and a half, and called 911. 

Oh is survived by three adult children, who she raised largely as a single mother after her husband died. She kept two chihuahuas that neighborhood kids recalled at a memorial Wednesday afternoon outside of the Hot Stop. 

"She was a nice lady, and she was always here," says Elaine Benadom, a recreation assistant at the nearby Firehouse Rec Center, who walked over with kids after school to hang posters in the shop windows. 

"'Vengeance is mine,' sayeth the Lord. You will be vindicated," one poster read. Another bore peace signs. 

Benadom says three of her students were in the store at the time. A surveillance video of the shooting shows no other people in the store, but one of the assailants, who was wielding a box-cutter, can be seen running toward the door with his weapon extended, perhaps scaring away potential witnesses. 

Salinas police released the video footage, over objections of Oh's family, in hopes that someone will recognize the attackers and tip off police. 

"The thing that's really terrifying is we may have known the shooters," Benadom says.  

As the community remembers Oh, they are also raising money. Oh retired with an injury from work on a flower farm, and lived on disability income, neighbors say, and they are seeking at least $12,000 to cover funeral expenses. (Oh's funeral is tomorrow, Saturday.) 

The close-knit Korean community in Salinas is asking for donations to Wells Fargo account number 7144-673-543. 

Mun Yi, the owner of Alisal Pizzeria and a board member of the Salinas Unified Business Association, hopes to expand the fundraising reach to beyond Korean family and friends. 

"She had a very difficult life," Yi says. "She was always a very nice person, a good person."

Yi is also asking for donations at www.gofundme.com/dcqn2o to help raise money for a reward fund for tipsters who help police find the killers.