VIDEO: Chicago man shot dead over dice game in East Garfield Park
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO / CHICAGO — A man was shot dead Saturday in East Garfield Park on the West Side, and reports say the incident stemmed over a dice game.
Surveillance video of the incident captured the dramatic shooting as it unfolded Saturday morning at about 9:25am in the 700 block of North Ridgeway Avenue.
Demarcus Reed, 27, was shot in the head and buttocks, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
According to online reports and users on social media, the victim was playing a game of dice with a group of gang members — who claimed Reed was allegedly stealing money from the ground.
Cell phone video of the aftermath shows Reed laying on the ground, injured by gunfire.
“He just robbed, he bogus,” an unidentified man can be heard saying in the video.
Footage then shows the man taking money out of Reed’s pockets before kicking him in the head.
Reed, of Humboldt Park, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Area Four detectives are investigating.