A man wounded in a drive-by shooting in Englewood left the hospital and went straight to an anti-violence community rally.
He went to the very spot where he saw his life flash before his eyes. "I could have been statistic last night. They counted me for dead," said the male victim. "Three different officers did chest compressions on me because they thought I was dead. I was so still." On Wednesday, community members surrounded the man with love, near 66th and Halsted Streets, where police say Tuesday night, someone in a white van started shooting.
All these things. My arm…," said the man. Activists made their message clear at the anti-violence rally. "We dying out here. We dying. I'm tired of our children dying," one activist said. The group, Englewood First Responders, were among several others, promoting peace and calling for an end to senseless shootings. "It don't take one organization – take everybody as a whole. But my code is together we stand, but separate. We are dividing.
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