After a 21-year-old man was shot and killed outside Chicago’s Ford City Mall that’s slated for closure later this month, an alderman is raising concerns about safety near the mall if its left abandoned.
A man later identified as Martin Murrillo was shot around 2:50 a.m. on the 7600 block of South Cicero Avenue after someone approached him and fired shots. He was struck in the head and transported in critical condition to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to Chicago police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
The person who shot him fled the scene in a red SUV, police said.
Tire marks and empty alcohol bottles in a parking lot of the mall appear to have been left behind by a large gathering overnight that was captured on videos that circulated widely on social media.
“My number one concern right now with Ford City was the safety,” said Alderman Derrick G. Curtis, whose ward includes the mall.
The main building of Ford City Mall will be shut down permanently on June 22 after an emergency motion was filed, calling it a “death trap,” and citing serious safety risk and hazardous conditions.
Curtis says the issues at the mall are both inside the building, with water leaks, and outside the building, with large gatherings that have gone on for years.
Now that the mall is facing the potential of being an abandoned property, Curtis fears gatherings like the one overnight will continue if the mall property does not sell soon.
“If we don’t get owners that care about the property, this is the problem that we’re going to have,” Curtis said. “Any time that you have a property that’s abandoned and in dilapidated conditions you’re doing to get undesirables coming to the area.”
Curtis said he wants to see new owners come in soon and “move that space forward.”
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