Chicago Man Fatally Shot While Streaming On Facebook Live

A Chicago man was fatally changeable arsenic he was streaming connected Facebook Live, his family says.

Kevin Watson, 42, was successful a parking batch successful nan 5000 artifact of West Madison successful nan South Austin connected Wednesday erstwhile a conveyance approached aft 6 p.m. and a personification wrong "produced a handgun and fired shots," nan Chicago Police Department said. The Cook County Medical Examiner confirmed nan victim’s personality to ABC7 Chicago.

Watson had been sitting successful his car and started a Facebook Live moments earlier nan shooting happened. The chilling footage has since racked up complete 2.5 cardinal views.

About 11 minutes into nan clip, he was seen reacting to personification passing adjacent nan beforehand of his car.

“What’s up bro?” he said, while putting his hands up successful nan air. “What’s up?” he said, again visibly shaken.

Watson said “Hell no” arsenic he scrambled retired of nan car, and retired of nan camera’s view. Someone was heard yelling extracurricular followed by a gunshot and past nan sound of a conveyance speeding away.

Shortly after, a man was heard screaming “Hey Tugg! Call nan police!” and different voices were heard clamoring earlier constabulary arrived.

Kevin Watson, 42.Courtesy Shamika Watson

Watson was deed successful nan thorax and transported to Mt. Sinai Hospital, wherever he was pronounced dead. The shooting is nether investigation and nary 1 is successful custody, constabulary said.

Watson's sister, Shamika Watson, said she believes he was targeted for his concatenation necklace that said "Tugg" — his nickname.

She told NBC News connected Friday that she was pinch her relative conscionable an hr earlier nan shooting unfolded.

After they parted ways Shamika Watson ran errands past returned to Madison Street, wherever her relative was known to bent out. She said she noticed a batch of cars successful nan parking batch wherever he usually was found, but ended up riding past nan commotion. After she sewage home, she started to get calls from group connected Facebook telling her to return to Madison Street because thing happened to her relative while he was connected Facebook Live.

By nan clip she arrived, her relative was already successful an ambulance.

“I saw reddish and yellowish portion up and I knew automatically it wasn’t thing good,” Shamika said.

The family gathered astatine Mount Sinai infirmary wherever they said pinch homicide detectives and doctors told nan family that he passed away.

“They had told us, we’re sorry, we brought him back. They said he came to them dormant connected arrival, but someway they brought him backmost but he mislaid truthful overmuch blood, he conscionable went,” Shamika said.

She remembered her relative arsenic her “best friend,” a loving begetter to a 7-year-old son, and portion of a close-knit family.

Kevin Watson, 42.Courtesy Shamika Watson

“He was outgoing. He loved to dress, was very outspoken, decidedly a bully father, uncle, brother. He was loved by truthful galore group each complete nan world,” she recalled.

He was good known successful clubs and successful nan community, and he liked doing nan Facebook lives to talk astir his life and antecedently did a podcast, Shamika said.

She believes her relative was targeted by personification he knew.

“My relative trusted excessively galore people. In nan video, that was bought to my attraction by a mates of friends, he moreover said aft they changeable him, he said ‘they backdoored me,’ meaning nan group successful his crowd did it to him,” Shamika said.

“My relative kept himself up he loved to dress, he loved to look bully and a batch of group hated connected him for that,” she continued. “He had a bully car, and jewelry, truthful location was a batch of hate.”

She said nan “Tugg” concatenation was disconnected Watson’s assemblage and was recovered connected nan crushed astatine nan scene. It was taken by constabulary because it had humor and fingerprints connected it, she said.

The family is asking for immoderate witnesses to study what they saw to police.

“I conscionable want nan slayer to beryllium caught. Turn yourself successful because we’re not going to quit. That’s our brother. We mislaid our mom backmost successful '95, our dada is sick successful a nursing home, and we’re not going to extremity for our brother,” Shamika said. “We're conscionable hoping that everybody does nan correct thing, because if it was their loved 1 laying connected that ground, past they would want personification to travel forward.”