Budding young artist and musician Corvus “Chrono” Humphries was killed and another was wounded in a shooting Sunday morning outside a CTA Pink Line station on the Southwest Side.
Officers responded to a call of a fight outside the California station in the 2000 block of South California at 7:38 a.m., according to Chicago Police.
Humphries, 20, was shot in the neck and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 8600 block of South Honore.
A 24-year-old man was shot in the buttocks and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
Friends said Humphries had just been dropped off at the station and was not involved in the altercation.
Corvus “Chrono” Humphries | Facebook
“This kind and gentle innocent soul was senselessly gunned down Sunday morning, October 2nd 2016, in Chicago for merely going about the business of getting dropped off at the L station and about to enter the station to come home from his job. He never made it, getting caught in the barrage of bullets fired at the other party running away from the drive by shooting,” a friend posted on a GoFundMe page set up in his name.
Humphries performed music and created artwork under the name Chrono. The graduate of Chicago Bulls College Prep was starting his own business, Nuance Music Entertainment, after previously working as a graphic artist for After School Matters, according to his Facebook page.
The GoFundMe page has been set up to help his family with funeral expenses.
The page is to honor the memory of the “gentle, exemplary and kind life that he lived,” it states. “We are doing this to bury him and preserve his memories and to maintain the causes of peace and life for all, that he practiced every day that he lived.”
—Chciago Sun-Times Wire and Homicide Watch Chicago