Marcus White was 52 years old when police found him on the sidewalk near 61st Street and Campbell Avenue. It was just after 8:30 on a Saturday night. Officers got the call about a stabbing and rolled up to see him lying there. He had 22 stab wounds all over his body.
They got him to the University of Chicago Hospital fast. Doctors there pronounced him dead. That was it for Marcus. One night turned into the last one.
Police say it started inside an apartment. Marcus got into some kind of fight with a person who has not been named. The fight turned into the stabbing. Then that person took off.
No one is in custody. Detectives from the area are still digging into what happened. They are looking for anyone who saw something or knows something.
Marcus had a whole life before that night. He had people who knew him, talked with him, shared days with him. Those moments are gone now. A fight in an apartment ended everything.
Life can flip that quick. One minute you are dealing with whatever is going on, the next you are on a sidewalk with wounds that no one can fix. That is what hit Marcus.
His name is still out there. The case is open. People who cared about him are left with the hole he left behind. The streets around 61st and Campbell keep moving, but for the folks who knew him, it stopped that night.
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