Two men were discovered dead inside a car this afternoon on the South Side in the city's West Englewood neighborhood.
About 3:20 p.m., officers were conducting a well-being check on the 7100 block of South Oakley Avenue and discovered two bodies, one in a back seat and one inside of a trunk of a car, said Police News Affairs Officer Dan O'Brien, citing preliminary information.
Area Central Detectives were heading up the investigation.
At the scene, more than 50 onlookers watched as police examined a two-door, white Chevrolet Camaro parked in front of a home on the east side of Oakley.
Residents said the car had been parked a block north earlier in the week, but may have been towed onto the 7100 block because of street work. A city database of relocations in the last week did not show the car as having been towed or relocated, however.
One of the victims had worked at the Daley Center for nearly a decade, according to a friend and co-worker, Tajuana Campbell, 37. She said he was a cashier who handled court record requests in the county’s civil division.
The Tribune was withholding the victim’s identity pending notification of his family members by authorities.
Campbell said she last saw the victim on Tuesday when he told her about a new home he just purchased for his fiancée and their toddler in the south suburbs. The victim complained about large ants found on the house, and how it gave him unpleasant flashbacks of the insects when he was a kid.
Describing the victim as a jokester and an all-around good guy, Campbell said she’d get him to help her with her homework when she was in graduate school. She’d get him to type up her term papers during his lunch break since he was a fast typist, Campbell said.
In order to get through their sometimes mundane eight-hour work days, the two would often give each other algebra problems to solve, Campbell explained.
She said the victim was a workaholic. In addition to working at the Daley Center, Campbell said the victim dabbled in promoting rap music.
“Even if he had a concert one night, he would be at work the next day,” a sad-sounding Campbell said from the crime scene, shortly before the Camaro was towed away from Oakley Avenue.
Campbell also remembered distinctly how she, the victim and other co-workers held a small memorial at work recently to remember their loved ones who have died over the years.
Campbell recalled how everyone wore white, and that the victim brought to work a picture of his father, who died when he was a young boy.
At the scene, Campbell also eerily remembered how the victim would often come to work with a copy of the RedEye newspaper and talk to her about their coverage of Chicago’s homicides.
“Every morning he used to come in and talk about … 'look how many people got killed (yesterday),’” said Campbell. “He sure did. And now he’s a victim of it.”
The Tribune was withholding the victim’s identity pending notification of his family members by authorities.
Campbell said she last saw the victim on Tuesday when he told her about a new home he just purchased for his fiancée and their toddler in the south suburbs. The victim complained about large ants found on the house, and how it gave him unpleasant flashbacks of the insects when he was a kid.
Describing the victim as a jokester and an all-around good guy, Campbell said she’d get him to help her with her homework when she was in graduate school. She’d get him to type up her term papers during his lunch break since he was a fast typist, Campbell said.
In order to get through their sometimes mundane eight-hour work days, the two would often give each other algebra problems to solve, Campbell explained.
She said the victim was a workaholic. In addition to working at the Daley Center, Campbell said the victim dabbled in promoting rap music.
“Even if he had a concert one night, he would be at work the next day,” a sad-sounding Campbell said from the crime scene, shortly before the Camaro was towed away from Oakley Avenue.
Campbell also remembered distinctly how she, the victim and other co-workers held a small memorial at work recently to remember their loved ones who have died over the years.
Campbell recalled how everyone wore white, and that the victim brought to work a picture of his father, who died when he was a young boy.
At the scene, Campbell also eerily remembered how the victim would often come to work with a copy of the RedEye newspaper and talk to her about their coverage of Chicago’s homicides.
“Every morning he used to come in and talk about … 'look how many people got killed (yesterday),’” said Campbell. “He sure did. And now he’s a victim of it.”
Campbell and others gathered at the scene said they had no knowledge of who the second victim was.
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