The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office identified the victim as 49-year-old Jose Tellez.
Neighbors say Tellez was hanging holiday decorations with her family when she was attacked.
“He was making Christmas decorations with his family, and they come out of the blue,” said family friend and longtime neighbor Silverio Nodal.
Tellez was hanging the lights at his home in the 3500-block of West 58 Street around 6.30 p.m. when police said two men boarded a sedan armed with blunt objects. They got out of the car and hit the 49-year-old man in the head, clinging to life on his front lawn.
“We saw the ambulance at the end of the road, and I thought maybe one of the neighbors was sick,” Nodal said.
Tellez was taken to Christ Hospital in critical condition with a head injury, where he later died.
A husband, father and community leader on his street for more than a decade, he was very dear. Neighbors said they helped organize block parties.
On Sunday night his neighbors took to the street from his house with a plan to defend the block; His own neighborhood sees the beginning in hopes of preventing more senseless acts of violence.
Fellow neighbors are also coming together to raise money for Tellez’s family.
An investigation by Area One detectives is ongoing. No one is currently in custody and police have not said what the motive for the attack was.
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