Little Village neighborhood members joined a Chicago police outside roll name Friday after a current outbreak of shootings within the Southwest Side neighborhood.
Over the previous two weeks, no less than 9 individuals have been wounded in gun violence incidents within the space, alarming residents and regulation enforcement alike.
An “uptick in gang violence” is guilty for the wave of shootings, Police Captain Gilberto Calderon instructed residents and 10th District officers.
Among these within the crowd have been family and friends members of Frank Aguilar, 32, who was shot and killed Tuesday as he was headed house from a Misericordia nursing house.
He was strolling about 11:30 p.m. within the 3700 block of West 32nd Street when somebody in a grey SUV drove by and opened hearth, police mentioned.
Aguilar was shot within the chest and brought to Mount Sinai Hospital, the place he succumbed to his accidents, police and the Cook County health worker’s workplace mentioned. He lived in West Englewood.
“Frankie was such an amazing person,” his uncle, Joshua Alcazar, mentioned at a vigil Friday night time. “He was a caring man. He would give you the clothes off his back.”
Alcazar mentioned his nephew labored at Misericordia for 2 years regardless of having higher gives from different hospitals.
“He decided to stay there because of the patients, not because of financial gain,” he mentioned.
Aguilar was not affiliated with any gangs, police mentioned.
Police are hoping the neighborhood can come collectively and assist investigators make an arrest within the case, prefer it did after a 7-year-old lady was shot on Halloween whereas trick-or-treating on 26th Street.
A 15-year-old boy was taken into custody and charged in that taking pictures thanks partly to an outpouring of ideas from the neighborhood, police mentioned.
Calderon mentioned officers would saturate the world over the approaching days “to make sure that this violence stops.”
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