FATHER AND SON KILLED IN LITTLE VILLAGE JEWELRY STORE ROBBERY

It’s the kind of story that stops you cold — another day in Chicago, another family forever changed. Just before 6PM on a Saturday evening in Little Village, what started as a regular shift at a family jewelry shop turned into tragedy. A father, 63, and his son, just 25, were both shot and killed during a robbery gone wrong.

Police say the suspect walked in armed, robbed the store, and as he left, a struggle broke out between the three men. The gunman opened fire, hitting both father and son before jumping into a white SUV and speeding off down Springfield. Officers found about a dozen shell casings and jewelry scattered across the floor — pieces of a business built over years, now turned into evidence.

Both victims were rushed to Mt. Sinai Hospital but didn’t make it. Their lives ended in the same place they worked side by side, trying to provide for their family and community.

And yet, we keep hearing the same line: “Chicago is safe.”
Tell that to the family who won’t see their father or brother again. Tell that to the neighbors who watched paramedics rush to save two men they’d known for years.

There’s a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest — but what can ever pay for the kind of loss that ripples through a community like this?

Little Village is hurting. Chicago is watching. And we’re left asking, once again, how many more lives have to be taken before “safe” means something real.