Posted on 08/14/2025 9:09:24 PM PDT by lowbridge
Chicago police are investigating the shooting death of a man shot while in the middle of a Facebook Live stream on the city's West Side.
A video viewed almost two million times on Facebook showed Kevin Watson, 42, getting out of a car. Seconds later, gunfire can be heard.
It happened mere blocks away from a police station in South Austin.
Close friends of the victim who witnessed the deadly shooting spoke exclusively with ABC7.
The shooting happened around 6:14 p.m. Wednesday in the 5000 block of West Madison Street in South Austin, Chicago police said.
Watson was sitting in a car when another vehicle approached and someone inside began shooting, CPD said. He died from his injuries.
The Cook County Medical Examiner confirmed the victim's identity.
Watson's family and friends have been left in mourning after his final moments were captured on Facebook Live.
I rubbed his palm and I squeezed his hand, and he wouldn't squeeze back.
"He was choking for breath," Watson's cousin Jacquez Smith said. "He was trying to struggle to breathe."
All of it unfolded right after Watson left his cousin's job at a nearby liquor store to begin his Facebook Live in his car.
"I wouldn't have let him walk out the store," Smith said. "He was a good man. No matter what he done, he helped people, you know? He helped me get this job in here."
Close friends, turned heartbroken witnesses, said Watson was talking to someone as he was walking to his car.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc7chicago.com ...
Black Lives Matter, my foot.
They only care if it’s a white cop shooting at some criminal, but when blacks kill other blacks, it’s crickets.
Looks like the murderer’s face was caught on the live-stream camera feed at the end.
“Looks like the murderer’s face was caught on the live-stream camera feed at the end.”
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Oops! Cops only catch the dumb ones.
It’s them again, Yogi.
That’s because they’re a gaggle of con artists, the blm movement.
Just remember though, they tell us all the time that whitey’s their biggest problem. Just ask the corporate media, they’ll back them up.
This particular victim had a regular name so my first thought was maybe he was killed by accident. There were several clues in the story that perpetuated the stereotype, though. First off, Chicago. Then his cousin was named Jacquez. After that, a couple of grammar clues gave it away: “walk out the store” and “what he done”. It only took a brief look at the video to see what I already suspected.
At least the family will have the photographs to remember their late loved one. There’s that.
Are you sure that was the shooter?
In other words, cuz knew he had it coming.
You win today’s “Sherlock Holmes” award!
People have become so shallow and superficial..2 million views for this crap.
How do you know if that’s the killer? I couldn’t understand his gibberish.
Obviously Trump’s fault.
Grew up just a few blocks north of there, it really is a shit glow now
That was his cousin.
You can hear the killer’s car drive off. The person at the end of the clip was his cousin.
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