By DANIEL BROWN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Police investigate the scene of a shooting late Saturday at Brudder’s Sports Bar in Irving Park. | Daniel Brown/Sun-Times
Angel Ortiz Jr. died Sunday after being shot while he was working as a bouncer late Saturday at an Irving Park neighborhood bar on the Northwest Side.
Ortiz, 51, was working about 11:40 p.m. at Brudder’s Sports Bar at 3600 North Pulaski when someone fired shots from the street into a window, according to Chicago Police.
Ortiz was shot in the head and was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he died at 5:39 p.m. Sunday, according to police. He lived in the 2600 block of North Normandy.
A silver minivan with bullet holes in the windows was parked on the south side of West Addison, surrounded by police tape. Police could be seen directing traffic in the intersection of Addison and Pulaski, where the bar is located.
Angel Ortiz Jr. | Facebook
A woman who lives a few doors down from the bar was about to take her dog for a walk when she said heard shots.
“We noticed [the bouncer] on the floor. They were doing CPR on him … right in the doorway,” she said. The woman preferred to remain anonymous because she “didn’t want to get shot next.”
She said she doesn’t like the environment at Brudder’s.
“Every night from 11 to three in the morning, I hear chaos,” she said, adding there were a lot of fights at the bar.
Mike Ortiz said he was in the bar earlier and that his cousin witnessed the shooting. His cousin told him she heard a loud pop and then saw the bouncer on the floor.
He said the bouncer was trying to break up a fight before someone “came around the corner and shot him right in the head–dead point.”
“That’s when everyone started running,” he said. “The bouncer was, you know, trying to do his job.”
A memorial fund for Angel Ortiz has been set up at YouCaring.com.