CHICAGO _ A man told his girlfriend on the phone that he was being followed by a black Dodge Charger shortly before he was shot to death Thursday evening on a dark, dead-end street on Chicago's Far South Side, according to police and a family member.
The man, identified by family members and the medical examiner as Jerome Fouch, was pronounced dead at 9:45 p.m. on scene in the 9200 block of South Dauphin Avenue, the block where he lived, in the Burnside neighborhood.
Fouch was shot multiple times as he exited his car around 9:35 p.m., police said.
A cousin, who did not want to give her name, said Fouch had a son, and worked as a forklift driver.
About a dozen family members gathered outside the crime scene late Thursday and early Friday morning.
A woman was bent over crying on the sidewalk as a family member hugged her from behind.
A few yards away, the man's mother was shielded from view inside a car as she screamed, "Why, why why."
The residential street was bound by train tracks and a brushy park lined with tall reeds.
Metra trains zipped across the tracks above the crime scene, briefly illuminating the dark street.
The man was among six people who were shot in Chicago Thursday and early Friday, including a 15-year-old boy who was shot in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
The boy was riding his bike around 10:35 p.m. Thursday in the 6800 block of South Wood Street when two male shooters came out of a gangway and began firing, police said.
He was hit in the leg, and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was stabilized.
