Shaun KingVerified account

I grew up on the far South Side of Chicago: Lue, Perry, and Marlon were all dudes I grew up with who never turned 20. Steve and Earnest are also doing life for unrelated murders. We all lived on the same two blocks and I played with them as a kid. Sad.https://twitter.com/flrcld/status/1128702767587921920 …

Now I’m thinking of Lue, Perry, and Marlon. Lue was shot in the head by a gangleader down the street from my house. A track star. The blood from his head and a bit from his brain stained the door where he was shot for weeks until it eventually washed off by rain.

I started walking across the street to avoid the stain on my way to the corner store on 93rd and Cottage Grove but I would always look at it. That blood stained brownish/gray steel door still sticks out as one of my most vivid memories as a kid.

Marlon and Perry were actually brothers. Perry was shot and killed after a fight in Tuley Park with gang affiliated boys over a Miami Dolphins starter jacket and was shot in the back through that jacket.