A man known as Moo Moo stood in an alley near 66th Street and Champlain Avenue in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood when gunfire cut his life short. It was about 2:40 a.m. An unknown gunman walked up and opened fire. The shots hit Moo Moo in the head.
Paramedics rushed him to the University of Chicago Hospital. Doctors there pronounced him dead. A second man, just 20 years old, took a bullet in the thigh. He reached the same hospital in fair condition.
Friends and neighbors knew the dead man simply as Moo Moo. His full name has not been released. That nickname is how people talk about him now. Behind it sat a real person with a real story that ended too soon.
The two men had been standing together in the alley. Nothing about the moment suggested it would turn deadly. Then the gunman appeared, fired, and left. Detectives are still piecing together what happened.
Chicago’s Woodlawn section woke up to another loss. One family faces an empty space that no words can fill. The 20-year-old survivor carries a wound that will mark him for a long time.
Police have not named any suspects. They keep working the case for answers. The early morning hours left one man gone and another forever changed.
Moo Moo is remembered by those who knew him. His absence sits heavy in the places he once filled.
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