A man was shot and killed inside his home in front of his family in Chicago’s Roseland neighborhood Tuesday evening as they were preparing to watch a movie.
Demarco Kennedy, 32, who family says was a BNSF Railway employee and man who cherished and provided for his family, was fatally shot in the neck.
“My nephew said, come on dad lets go watch a movie, he said OK, he was sitting there on his phone,” Latoya Cooper, Kennedy’s sister-in-law said. “All I hear was a gunshot through the window and I heard him fall to the floor and saw blood coming from his neck and tried to resuscitate him.”
Kennedy was taken to Trinity Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
“This wasn’t nobody in a gang out here in the streets, he was at his table writing out bills, ready to work the night shift, then here comes a bullet and now he’s dead,” Milton Cole, Kennedy’s uncle said.
The family says police told them it appears the bullets were fired from the parking lot of a Popeye’s Chicken just south of their apartment building in the 600 block of East 102nd Place.
On Wednesday, bullet holes could be seen in the garage between the parking lot and the family’s apartment building, as well as in the window of their second-floor window.
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“My son is in shock, my youngest keeps crying, my oldest is very angry,” Nicole Kennedy, Demarco’s wife said. “They watched their daddy die.”
