April 12--A second man died after a shooting late last week in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, authorities disclosed Tuesday.
Police had previously disclosed that the shooting about 3:30 p.m. Thursday at St. Louis and Chicago avenues left a 22-year-old man dead and an 18-year-old man critically wounded.
On Tuesday, the Cook County medical examiner's office released information confirming that the younger man, identified as Diangelo Black, of the 11100 block of South Edgebrook Avenue, was pronounced dead at 9:13 p.m. Friday at Stroger Hospital. The older man was identified as Deandre D. Trotter, of the 10900 block of South Edgebrook, who was pronounced dead at 4:02 p.m. Thursday at Stroger. The medical examiner's office gave Trotter's age as 23, but court records indicated he was 22.
Black died from a gunshot wound to the head, an autopsy Tuesday determined, and an autopsy earlier had determined Trotter died from multiple gunshot wounds. Police had he was shot in the chest and back.
The two were on the street when two men dressed in all black came up to them and shot them, then fled on foot, police said.
The day of the shooting, neighbors said the block has become more dangerous in recent years.
"This block went from zero to a hundred. We used to could stand outside, out here. All night without no shooting going on. All night, didn't we? When we was younger we used to just kick it," said 24-year-old Niger Edwards, a lifelong West Side resident, on Thursday. "Now you have to be cautious where you walk, who you talk to, who you know, 'cause they shooting up everybody. They don't care. They just don't care right now."
There have been other shootings in the neighborhood recently, including three people shot in the alley across from where the two were shot. The earlier shooting, in mid-March, left a 16-year-old boy dead and two others wounded.
"That's really overwhelming for people. These are kids," Edwards said. "It's been on the news that so many kids have died from gunshot wounds. And don't nobody care. It's like don't nobody want to stop to think about damn, OK, this ain't, this ain't how life supposed to be."
