Officers responded to a report of a person shot and found the guard lying outside on the 1400 block of South Morgan Street at around 4:09 a.m.
Mamie Thomas woke up around 5 a.m. Monday expecting a text from her longtime partner Damien Nelson, who was going to drive her to the grocery store following his shift as a security guard. When he was late, she thought he might have stopped for coffee.
Nelson, 44, had been shot and killed early Monday morning outside BJ Wright Court Apartments in Little Italy, according to police and the security company that employed him. Thomas and Nelson met at Roberto Clemente High School more than 20 years ago and had been together ever since, she said. Nelson was a doting father to their daughter in particular, Thomas said. He’d take her to museums, restaurants and to the lakefront for “quality time” and they’d been planning to go to the zoo Tuesday, she said. Later in the summer, Nelson had been looking forward to his first-ever plane trip, for a friend’s birthday in Georgia.
He had hoped to one day own his own security company and pass the firm on to his 11-year-old son, Thomas said.Besides his job as a security guard with Benford Protection Group, Nelson also worked part time at a 7-Eleven convenience store, she said: “He didn’t want to be sitting in the house. He was like, ‘I can’t just sit. I’ve got to work.’”
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