A retired correctional officer died nearly a week after he was beaten during a robbery outside his home in south suburban Hazel Crest.
Keith Chamble, 60, was exiting his car after 8 p.m. Feb. 6 in the 16800 block of Orchard Ridge Avenue when multiple people approached him in his driveway, Hazel Crest police said in a statement.
He was attacked, and the group stole his 2018 Nissan Rogue and personal items, police said.
Chamble was able to make it into his home, where his daughter found him after 1 a.m., police said. She called paramedics, who brought him to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
He was pronounced dead at the hospital at 9:27 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Investigators later found the Chamble’s Nissan in the 17000 block of Anthony, but no one was inside, police said. Several of his personal items were recovered.
Chamble’s daughter, Shanae Wynese Cross, asked for the public’s help on Facebook to knock on doors in her father’s neighborhood and find witnesses.
“Someone knows something,” she wrote. “We need answers. We need justice for [my dad].”
She posted a photo of her dad, a retired correctional officer at Stateville Correctional Center, in a hospital bed attached to a ventilator.
Police said the investigation is ongoing and are asking anyone with information to call Hazel Crest detectives at (708) 335-9640.
