Chicago, IL - A close relative
of Damond Dawson warned the 23-year-old aspiring rapper of hanging out
at the wrong areas. Especially when the sun went down.
Now, he's deceased and investigators are searching for his killer.
Shots rang out in the early morning hours of yesterday, April 19 in Chicago's Foster Park at 1440 W. 84th St., located within the Gresham neighborhood, where Dawson was shot in the back in the head and pronounced dead at the scene. Four others including a female teenager who was shot in the groin and another man who took nine shots to the leg and shoulder were also admitted to Advocate Christ Medical Center. They all were listed in stable condition.
All of the injured males were related to Dawson, as they are his brother and second cousins.
"He was trying to rap; that's what he was trying to do," Dawson's aunt, Angela Mathis-Tate tearfully told the Chicago-Tribune. "He might be on some YouTube things that they have on their iPhone's...Thugga, that's what we call him."
She also assured he was "a good kid" and wasn't involved in gangbanging, despite dropping out of high school in the eleventh grade.
Dawson and his rap group were filming their video to their independent record "Two Techs and a 50 Shot," when the shooting ironically occurred. While the victims refused to speak with the media, rapper "Foreign Lyfe," who was on the scene, gave his point of view on the deadly incident.
"I heard my homie say that he had seen somebody pulling up or whatever. We turned around and look back again, quick as we looked back, started shooting," he recalled to ABC7 Chicago. Shots coming from everywhere..."
Chicago police currently have no one in custody and are also investigating eight other shootings that occurred the West and South sides that evening to mid-morning.
“It’s always drama up there. Nothing but drama … I told my nephew, please don’t be going up to that park,” Mathis-Tate continued. “They say, ‘We’re not, we’re not,’ and that’s what they always tell us. The area is particularly dangerous for young men."
Now, he's deceased and investigators are searching for his killer.
Shots rang out in the early morning hours of yesterday, April 19 in Chicago's Foster Park at 1440 W. 84th St., located within the Gresham neighborhood, where Dawson was shot in the back in the head and pronounced dead at the scene. Four others including a female teenager who was shot in the groin and another man who took nine shots to the leg and shoulder were also admitted to Advocate Christ Medical Center. They all were listed in stable condition.
All of the injured males were related to Dawson, as they are his brother and second cousins.
"He was trying to rap; that's what he was trying to do," Dawson's aunt, Angela Mathis-Tate tearfully told the Chicago-Tribune. "He might be on some YouTube things that they have on their iPhone's...Thugga, that's what we call him."
She also assured he was "a good kid" and wasn't involved in gangbanging, despite dropping out of high school in the eleventh grade.
Dawson and his rap group were filming their video to their independent record "Two Techs and a 50 Shot," when the shooting ironically occurred. While the victims refused to speak with the media, rapper "Foreign Lyfe," who was on the scene, gave his point of view on the deadly incident.
"I heard my homie say that he had seen somebody pulling up or whatever. We turned around and look back again, quick as we looked back, started shooting," he recalled to ABC7 Chicago. Shots coming from everywhere..."
Chicago police currently have no one in custody and are also investigating eight other shootings that occurred the West and South sides that evening to mid-morning.
“It’s always drama up there. Nothing but drama … I told my nephew, please don’t be going up to that park,” Mathis-Tate continued. “They say, ‘We’re not, we’re not,’ and that’s what they always tell us. The area is particularly dangerous for young men."
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