Drequan Archie killed in South Shore shooting A police officer guards the scene where fatal gunshot victim Drequan Archie lies on the ground behind a tire shop at the corner of 79th Street and South Clyde Avenue. (John J. Kim, Chicago Tribune) Drequan Archie was shot around 2:25 p.m. Wednesday in a lot behind the Tire Shop, a garage near Clyde Avenue and 79th Street. Archie fell face down, about five feet from an Audi SUV. A man with Archie, also 20, was shot in the leg and fled down the block. Witnesses tracked down by police said two men wearing ski masks and gloves approached and opened fire. They shot up the side of the Audi and hit Archie in the head and back. Archie tried to speak as he lay on the ground dying, the witnesses said. Michael Sawyer said he and a friend were in another car in the tire lot when he saw the gunmen walk up, covered head-to-toe. “I see the gun poking out one of their pockets and stuff, they just get to shooting and (expletive). It was two shooting,” said Sawyer, 20. “We couldnt hear nothing, we already been pulled out when it happened. Came back around to see if they was OK, he was the only one laying down. “He was saying little stuff, bro,” Sawyer said. He was kinda mumbling. Arthur Lewis said he dropped to the floor of his kitchen when the shooting started. “I’m hearing gunshots and I’m like, whoa, ducking behind the counter because I don’t want no bullets to hit me through the window,” the 22-year-old carpenter said. “I’m praying to God it’s not people I know.”Neighbors took photos of the body and later posted them  Bystanders peer at the body of Drequan Archie, 20, who was shot in a lot behind the Tire Shop, a garage near Clyde Avenue and 79th Street on Dec. 17, 2014. (Peter Nickeas, Chicago Tribune) Archie had been a student at Kishwaukee College in DeKalb County, according to his sister and public records. Meishelle Archie wasnt sure what had happened. Police didn’t tell her and she only vaguely knew the man who survived with a leg wound. Is he a teenager? someone shouted to her. He 20, she said, almost pleading. His friend got shot but they say he in the hospital, he cant, he aint talking right now.” Her brother was a graduate of South Shore High School and lived a few miles south. “His friend live on Merrill but they was changing the tire out the truck … (My mom) got a phone call.” The daughter and mother embraced on 79th Street, both crying, before Meishelle went to the side where she could see the body. “He on the ground. He on the ground. He was in (the other man’s) truck. They just got the car out the pound,” she said. Neighbors lined up along the alley to look at the body. Some peered through cracks in a plank fence behind the shop. Others put their phones above the fence to get pictures that were later posted on social media. Police attributed the shooting to an ongoing gang conflict, though Meishelle said her brother didn’t gangbang. “He was in the car with somebody, I dont know who he was with. I dont even really know him, I only seen him four times,” she said.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:54:54 +0000
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