Police Investigating Killing Of College Student In Washington Heights
(CBS) -- Chicago police are investigating the killing of a 21-year-old Olive-Harvey College student gunned down late Monday night near his home in the Washington Heights neighborhood.
58-year-old Charles Watson says he cannot believe it. Cannot understand why - for the first time in the 23 years he's lived near 102nd and May - there has been violence in his neighborhood.
And that the victim was his next-door neighbor, 21-year-old D'Montre Smith.
"Oh, man, he was a great guy. He worked hard. He went to school. He graduated from Simeon... he went on to Olive-Harvey College, and he worked at FedEx."
Watson says he and his wife were watching the evening news about 10:15 when Smith was killed as he was coming home with his girlfriend.
"We heard about six or seven shots. Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop. So I ran to the door, I looked out and the mother ran out. She grabbed me and she said, 'You seen Montre? You seen Montre?'
"We were looking for him. And he was laying right there on the side of the house, on the gangway.
"It shouldn't have happened to him," Watson says. "He was a good kid."
Police say they're looking for a dark red four-door sedan. And police say the shooting may be gang-related.