To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (669418 ) 8/27/2012 11:32:15 AM From: Brumar89 Respond to of 1579107 Deadly shooting 3 blocks from Preezy's Chicago mansion: chicago.cbslocal.com ... But one of the deadly shootings happened just a few blocks from President Barack Obama’s Chicago home. “Three blocks over, that’s it. Three blocks. He’s right there,” said Freeman Richmond, who lives on the next block on Drexel Boulevard. In the shooting, a young man was sitting in his car with his girlfriend, when he lost his life to an armed robber. Stephin Williams and his girlfriend were in their car around 2:30 a.m. in the 4900 block of South Drexel Boulevard, in the Kenwood neighborhood about three blocks northwest of Obama’s Chicago home on Greenwood Avenue. Two men walked up with a handgun and announced a robbery, police said. When Williams attempted to fight, one of the males shot him multiple times. Williams, 23, of the 4000 block of South Lake Park Avenue, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3:10 a.m., according to Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. Richmond was driving home when he saw police swarming to the scene. “When I came around the block, the kid was laying face down right there. He wasn’t moving,” Richmond told CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli. “I paused for a minute and looked at him, and they finally picked him up and put him in the ambulance, and I drove on away.” Even with the proximity to the heavily-guarded presidential residence, violence is not new to the area, Richmond said. “I live right up the street. This is not the first time this neighborhood has been violated with gunfire. It keeps continuing,” he said. Richmond is a Vietnam veteran, and he finds the violence and heavy-duty weapons being used in his neighborhood highly disturbing. “It kind of brings back memories of death in Vietnam, but here, the level of violence is getting to an extent that it seems like a war zone, you know?” he said. ........