A family is grieving Friday night and Easley's police chief said officers are trying to track down two suspects after a female employee was found shot to death Friday night at B Pam's Food Mart.
The store is located at 201 NE Main St in Easley.
Chief Tim Tollison said the victim had been shot after quickly exchanging gun fire.
Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley identified the victim as 49-year-old Stacey Regina Branham of Piedmont.
The coroner said Branham passed away from a single gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Tollison said officers are searching for two men who disguised their faces when they entered the store.
One of the men was wearing an orange ski mask, gray long-sleeve shirt, and black west. The other was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with a white cloth mask covering his face from the nose down.
Chief Tollison confirmed that Branham had a gun and tried to defend herself. There is no definitive evidence if the suspects had been hit.
Both men were around 5'10" to 6-feet-tall.
Police said the men fled in a 2014-2017 silver Subaru Forester that turned left on North Main Street and went toward Haygood.
The Barham's son, Dalton Kirby, spoke to reporters at the gas station. He said his mother had worked at the gas station for more than three years. He said she left behind a grandbaby, and another on the way.
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