Post by High Priestess on Sept 1, 2017 6:22:21 GMT
ROGERS PARK — Rogers Park resident Fabiany Herrera wasn't at home in the early morning hours of Aug. 20, when a drive-by shooting left two people wounded and a man dead just outside his building — but his Airbnb guests were.
When the visitors awoke to the sound of at least 20 rounds being fired around 4:30 a.m., captured on the unit's security camera, the guests picked up their things and left.
"I don't blame them," Herrera said.
What the visitors heard was the gunfire that claimed the life of Remus Campbell, 32, and injured a man and a woman, both 23.
The three were shot in the 7700 block of North Ashland Avenue during what's been the Far North Side neighborhood's worst shooting so far this year.
One bullet from the shooting went through the window of a neighbor's ground-floor condo and lodged itself in a bedroom headboard, Herrera said. No one was hurt in the unit, he said.
A car parked on the street was riddled with bullets in the shooting.
The shootout has left neighbors who live in the area north of Howard — the northernmost pocket of the neighborhood bound by Sheridan, Juneway, Howard, Rogers and Evanston's Chicago Avenue — shaken and feeling helpless, but not surprised that the shooting happened.
Of the 11 people who have been shot in Rogers Park this year, eight happened north of Howard, including the community's only two homicides this year.
Police and neighbors have called it a hot spot of gang activity and retaliatory shootings between sparring factions in other parts of the neighborhood, as well as gangs in other neighborhoods across the city.
Prompted by the recent triple shooting, a group of residents met privately with 49th Ward Ald. Joe Moore on Monday to express their concerns.
Herrera said he realized it was a "complex" problem and he didn't lay blame on any entity in particular, but he said that he and others feel "abandoned" by the city when it comes to curbing the crime.
Herrera said he calls 911 and has attended community police meetings, but doesn't feel it's helping enough.
"We just feel abandoned," Herrera said. "It feels like we've just been left at the mercy of this war that's going on in Chicago."
Herrera said he calls 911 and has attended community police meetings, but doesn't feel it's helping enough.
"We just feel abandoned," Herrera said. "It feels like we've just been left at the mercy of this war that's going on in Chicago."
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Are some neighborhoods just too dangerous to do Airbnb renting in? Will Airbnb shut down your listing if more than 10 people are killed in a year within a couple blocks of your house? What's your take on it?