A baseball umpire at a Chicago high school asked his neighbors to be quiet since he had to go to work the following morning before being shot in the face and died.
According to ABC 7, Carlso Rivera, 50, was shot last Sunday evening while visiting his neighbors in the second-floor apartment building on North Whipple Street.
According to the police, Rivera was shot in the face and torso as he left his apartment after the guy reported a loud noise that was keeping him awake.
He was taken in an emergency and afterwards passed away at the Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
The murder has not yet resulted in an arrest, and the Windy City is now dealing with a 39 percent increase in violent crime.
Rivera, a baseball enthusiast who worked as an umpire for the Illinois High School Association, also officiated games for neighborhood teams.
Angel Rosario expressed his sorrow at his brother’s passing and said that his family had been devastated.
Rosario said on Rivera’s funeral page, “I know God has a plan, but it’s just so hard to think this was part of it.” I hope that God called him up so quickly because He has a unique game set up for him to umpire in paradise.
The late umpire was thrilled to meet his future granddaughter, according to Rivera’s son Carlos, who also shared a photo of his father attending his partner’s baby shower.
As he grieved Rivera on Twitter, Max Rundberg referred to him as a diligent coworker.
Rundberg penned, “When I say a hard working guy, I mean a hard working man.”
He would go to work at his early-morning job, finish early in the afternoon, and then immediately go to officiate a baseball game. In the spring, summer, and autumn, he would play in almost 300 games. Los, we will certainly miss you.
Just five days before to the murder of the future grandpa, a seven-year-old kid in Chicago’s West Side was shot and murdered by a stray bullet.
At least one bullet entered the child’s house on the 2600 block of West Potomac Avenue during the gunfight that broke out in Humboldt Park on Wednesday at 8:22 p.m.
According to authorities, the toddler, who is yet nameless, was in the toilet when shots were fired. One of the stray bullets that entered the house struck the boy in the stomach.
The youngster was then sent in serious condition to a local hospital where he had life-saving surgery while still alive.
Nevertheless, a few hours later, despite the greatest efforts of the medical staff, the victim would succumb to his wounds and be declared dead.
Detectives are now looking through private surveillance footage in an effort to find and apprehend the shooting’s suspects, who are still at large.
Numerous bullet casings were discovered in a back alley behind the boy’s house, which is where the shootings are thought to have originated.
The event is the most recent setback to the city’s deteriorating reputation under Lightfoot, who has seen crime soar to levels not seen in decades since entering office in late 2019.
The Chicago Police Department’s most recent figures show that despite a spike in crimes in both 2021 and 2020, crime rates are still rising.
With 564 killings reported since the year’s beginning, compared to 428 over the same period in 2019, murders are up a startling 32% since 2019.
However, since the height of the epidemic in 2020, when authorities reported a record 644 homicides, which was later topped in 2021 by 676 slayings, the number of murders has somewhat decreased.
The quantity was the highest since the middle of the 1990s.
Since then, homicides have gradually decreased by 17%, but theft, robbery, and other crimes are all much higher than previous year, which was one of the worst years for crime in the city’s history.
The number of shootings in the Windy City has increased since the previous weekend, when 31 victims and nine killings were recorded.
2,313 gunshot incidents have been recorded thus far in 2022 as of this week.