Simone D. McKay | Homicide Watch Chicagohttp://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/simone-d-mckay/Latest news about Simone D. McKayen-usThu, 26 Oct 2017 12:42:38 -0500Simone McKay was a victim of Chicago violence, but her mother defends community while hoping for justicehttp://homicides.suntimes.com/2017/10/26/simone-mckay-was-a-victim-of-chicago-violence-but-her-mother-defends-community-while-hoping-for-justice/<p>By MATTHEW HENDRICKSON<br /> Chicago Sun-Times</p> <p>A line of mourners reached from <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/simone-d-mckay/">Simone McKay</a>’s casket to the back of St. Margaret of Scotland Church at her funeral.</p> <img class="size-medium wp-image-29323" src="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-25-at-5.55.14-PM-300x176.png" alt="The Rev. Paul Whittington, from St. Margaret of Scotland Church, consoles Vicki McKay after her daughter's funeral Saturday. Simone McKay was a student at Chicago State University. | Leslie Adkins/For the Sun-Times" width="300" height="176" srcset="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-25-at-5.55.14-PM-300x176.png 300w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-25-at-5.55.14-PM-500x293.png 500w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-25-at-5.55.14-PM.png 762w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The Rev. Paul Whittington, from St. Margaret of Scotland Church, consoles Vicki McKay after her daughter's funeral Saturday. Simone McKay was a student at Chicago State University. | Leslie Adkins/For the Sun-Times</p> <p>The crowd filled the pews below the parish’s blue cathedral ceiling Saturday and talked about the 26-year-old woman who was taken from them too soon, for reasons no one could understand.</p> <p>The priest said God had called her home. One woman said that, through her two children, ages 2 and 5, McKay gave more life to the world than someone decided to take last week.</p> <p>Officers responding to a call of a person shot just after midnight Oct. 15 <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/police-woman-found-shot-to-death-in-rosemoor/amp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found McKay suffering from a gunshot wound to the head on the steps of her home</a> in the 9600 block of South Forest, authorities said. She died at the scene.<br /> <span id="more-29322"></span></p> <img class="size-medium wp-image-29141" src="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/17426014_10209214633779794_6708181083725680542_n-169x300.jpg" alt="Soimone 'CoCo' Mckay | Facebook" width="169" height="300" srcset="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/17426014_10209214633779794_6708181083725680542_n-169x300.jpg 169w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/17426014_10209214633779794_6708181083725680542_n-500x889.jpg 500w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/17426014_10209214633779794_6708181083725680542_n-450x800.jpg 450w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/17426014_10209214633779794_6708181083725680542_n.jpg 540w" sizes="(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Simone 'CoCo' Mckay | Facebook</p> <p>Neighbors recalled hearing a single shot, and said it appeared McKay was walking up the steps to her home when she was shot.</p> <p>“I never thought I would bury my child,” her mother, Vicki McKay, said. “Maybe I could understand if it was a car accident, something random like that. But a malicious killing?”</p> <p>To those that knew her, Simone McKay was sweet, caring and full of potential. She was studying biology at Chicago State University and planned to go to medical school to become a doctor.</p> <p>“She was one of the first people I met at school,” fellow CSU senior Kristen Gardner said. “We hit it off, and we were lab partners. She was somebody you could go to and talk to. She was good at giving advice.”</p> <p>Gardner, president of the Minority Association of Pre-Health Students, was working with McKay to grow the organization on campus before her death. She and other members of the group held a vigil for McKay on Wednesday night.</p> <p>“Disbelief,” Gardner said of finding out how McKay died. “She had so much going for her. She was motivated. It’s unfortunate she can’t live out her dreams.”</p> <p>As big of a city as Chicago is, it can often feel small. Another classmate and friend, 27-year-old Lynette Turner, said that when she met McKay at Chicago State, she realized her husband was Simone’s cousin.</p> <p>“[Chicago] is like that,” Turner said. “We became really good friends.”</p> <p>Vicki McKay said her daughter will be buried in Chicago. “It’s her hometown,” she said. It was also her community.</p> <p>Vicki McKay no longer lives in Chicago but will always consider it her home, too, she said. She moved to Indianapolis 15 years ago and had encouraged her daughter to do the same.</p> <img class="size-medium wp-image-29324" src="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/simone-mckay-300x203.jpg" alt="Simone McKay’s casket is carried from St. Margaret of Scotland Church after her funeral Saturday. | Leslie Adkins/For the Sun-Times" width="300" height="203" srcset="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/simone-mckay-300x203.jpg 300w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/simone-mckay-500x338.jpg 500w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/simone-mckay.jpg 699w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Simone McKay’s casket is carried from St. Margaret of Scotland Church after her funeral Saturday. | Leslie Adkins/For the Sun-Times</p> <p>When her daughter went back to school, Vicki McKay decided she would, too, and they would race to see who could finish first. She hoped her daughter would join her at Purdue University after she graduated from CSU in May.</p> <p>It wasn’t about Chicago’s violence, a grim distinction the city has earned nationally. Indianapolis is more affordable, Vicki said. Her daughter wouldn’t have had to work so hard, and she had a big yard where her grandchildren could play.</p> <p>Simone McKay’s children were with a family member when she was shot, her mother said. She had lived at the building for nearly a year, which was close to family and just blocks from her school. She was a professional makeup artist and worked part-time for the Chicago Public Schools’ Office of Early Childhood Education.</p> <p>Vicki McKay said she defends Chicago to those who talk negatively about the city and point to its violence, yet she has become a victim. She said she’s thankful for “an outpouring a support” from the community and public officials.</p> <img class="size-medium wp-image-29325" src="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/simone2-300x214.jpg" alt="Friends of Simone McKay, Sandra Smith (left) and Jennisha Jones, carry a large photo of Simone McKay before her funeral Saturday. | Leslie Adkins/For the Sun-Times" width="300" height="214" srcset="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/simone2-300x214.jpg 300w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/simone2-500x357.jpg 500w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/simone2.jpg 700w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Friends of Simone McKay, Sandra Smith (left) and Jennisha Jones, carry a large photo of Simone McKay before her funeral Saturday. | Leslie Adkins/For the Sun-Times</p> <p>“My heart is broken and shattered, but my city is a community,” she said.</p> <p>A phone call from Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday morning expressing his sympathies meant a lot.</p> <p>“It was parent to parent,” she said of the conversation. “I think any parent can empathize. I appreciated [his] humanity. It made me feel good.”</p> <p>But it was also the well wishes from administrators at Chicago State, which hosted the funeral reception on campus Saturday.</p> <p>Vicki McKay said she has heard from doctors, neighbors, friends and co-workers of her daughter, and believed it showed how much light her daughter brought to the world and how much her death has cast a shadow.</p> <p>She hopes the person responsible will come forward. If not, she hopes someone with information will instead. Part of being a member of community, she said, was stepping up to help each other.</p> <p>“The only way these crimes can be stopped is if we talk about it,” she said.</p> <p>No one was in custody as of Thursday afternoon, according to Chicago Police. Area South investigators can be reached at (312) 747-8273.</p> David StruettThu, 26 Oct 2017 12:42:38 -0500http://homicides.suntimes.com/2017/10/26/simone-mckay-was-a-victim-of-chicago-violence-but-her-mother-defends-community-while-hoping-for-justice/Simone D. McKayWEEK IN REVIEW: North Side teacher and South Side college student among 16 people killed last weekhttp://homicides.suntimes.com/2017/10/19/week-in-review-killed-week-of-oct-9-15/<p>At least 16 people were killed during the week of October 9-15 in Chicago, including two school employees who died in separate incidents in the Far South Side Rosemoor and Far North Side Rogers Park neighborhoods.</p> <img class="size-medium wp-image-29141" src="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/17426014_10209214633779794_6708181083725680542_n-169x300.jpg" alt="Soimone 'CoCo' Mckay | Facebook" width="169" height="300" srcset="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/17426014_10209214633779794_6708181083725680542_n-169x300.jpg 169w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/17426014_10209214633779794_6708181083725680542_n-500x889.jpg 500w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/17426014_10209214633779794_6708181083725680542_n-450x800.jpg 450w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/17426014_10209214633779794_6708181083725680542_n.jpg 540w" sizes="(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Soimone 'CoCo' Mckay | Facebook</p> <p><a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/simone-d-mckay/">Simone D. McKay</a>, 26, was shot to death early Sunday morning on her porch in the 9600 block of South Forest in the Rosemoor neighborhood, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office. She was shot in the head and was pronounced dead at 12:13 a.m., authorities said.</p> <p>McKay was a part-time employee of the CPS Office of Early Education and was a senior biology major at Chicago State University. She was also a single mother of two young children.</p> <p>Another shooting victim, <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/cynthia-trevillion/">Cynthia Trevillion</a>, 64, was caught in gang crossfire in the 6900 block of North Glenwood in the Rogers Park neighborhood at about 6:30 p.m. Friday, authorities said.</p> <img class="size-medium wp-image-29102" src="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/22449771_1881955011821450_9012445195365857229_n-240x300.jpg" alt="Cynthia Trevillion | Chicago Waldorf School Community" width="240" height="300" srcset="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/22449771_1881955011821450_9012445195365857229_n-240x300.jpg 240w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/22449771_1881955011821450_9012445195365857229_n-500x625.jpg 500w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/22449771_1881955011821450_9012445195365857229_n.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Cynthia Trevillion | Chicago Waldorf School Community</p> <p>Trevellion and her husband were walking to meet friends for dinner when she was struck in the head and neck. She was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where she died at 7:18 p.m.</p> <p>Tevellion was a math teacher at the Chicago Waldorf School, where she had taught for the last 14 years.</p> <p>Other homicides last week included:</p> <ul> <li>A 26-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday afternoon in the South Side Gresham neighborhood. <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/reno-d-wooldridge/">Reno D. Wooldridge</a> suffered gunshot wounds to the chest and arm at 12:33 p.m. in the 8300 block of South Justine, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Wooldridge was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died half an hour later. He lived on same block as the shooting.</li> </ul> <p><span id="more-28931"></span></p> <ul> <li>A man was shot to death Sunday morning in the South Shore neighborhood. <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/devon-caffie/">Devon Caffie</a>, 22, was walking about 11:10 a.m. on the sidewalk in the 6700 block of South Jeffery when two males got out of a Ford car and opened fire, according to authorities. Caffie suffered gunshot wounds to the chest, arm and back of his head; and was pronounced dead at the scene. He lived in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.</li> <li>A 19-year-old man and 17-year-old boy were shot to death Saturday night in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side. They were sitting in a parked van about 10:25 p.m. in the 8900 block of South Union when someone fired at them from a passing gray sedan, according to police. The 19-year-old, <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/justin-gilbert/">Justin Gilbert</a>; and the 17-year-old, <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/trevail-ridgell/">Trevail Ridgell</a>, were both shot multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene. Both lived in the same neighborhood.</li> <li>A man was shot to death Saturday afternoon in the South Shore neighborhood on the South Side. Officers responding to reports of shots fired at 2:29 p.m. in the 7000 block of South Chappel found 24-year-old <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/valentino-cockerham/">Valentino Cockerham</a> unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds, according to police and the medical examiner's office. Cockerham was pronounced dead at the scene. He lived in the same neighborhood.</li> <li>A man was shot to death Friday evening less than a block from his Back of the Yards neighborhood home on the South Side. About 8:15 p.m., 52-year-old <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/victor-carrillo/">Victor Carrillo</a> was sitting in a vehicle parked in an alley off the 4400 block of South Marshfield when gunshots rang out and he was struck in his chest, police and the medical examiner’s office said. Another person drove Carrillo to Stroger Hospital, where he died.</li> <li>One man was killed and another wounded Friday afternoon in a Southwest Side Wrightwood neighborhood shooting. The men, both 26, were sitting in a car at 3:57 p.m. when someone walked up to them in the 8000 block of South California and fired shots, according to police. One of the men, identified as <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/sharrod-l-peoples/">Sharrod L. Peoples</a>, was shot multiple times in the body and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead, according to the medical examiner's office. Peoples lived in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side. The other man was shot in the bicep and his condition was stabilized at Christ.</li> <li>Fifty-five-year-old <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/sylvester-duarte/">Sylvester Duarte</a> was found beaten to death in his Northwest Side Avaondale apartment late Friday, and his 33-year-old son has been charged with his murder. <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/suspects/carlos-duarte/">Carlos Duarte</a> was charged later Friday with urder for the death of his father, who was found dead at 10:18 p.m. in his apartment in the 2900 block of North Gresham, authorities said. He died from blunt force head injuries suffered in an assault. Prosecutors allege Carlos Duarte, a gang member, choked and beat his father, then struck him over the head several times with a dumbbell, when the two began arguing over the younger Duarte drawing gang signs in the apartment. He was ordered held without bond.</li> <li>A southwest suburban man was shot to death early Thursday in the Archer Heights neighborhood on the Southwest Side. <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/andres-pina/">Andres Pina</a>, 24, was sitting inside a vehicle at 3:47 a.m., picking up a friend in the 4900 block of South Komensky, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. The friend told investigators he heard shots from outside and found his friend unresponsive inside the vehicle. Pina, who lived in Palos Hills, was shot in the neck and pronounced dead at the scene.</li> <li>A man was shot to death Wednesday night on the Near West Side. Officers responding to calls of shots fired about 8:30 p.m. found 28-year-old <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/dionysus-english/">Dionysus English</a> shot multiple times in the 100 block of South Western, police and the medical examiner’s office said. English was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He lived in the Bronzeville neighborhood.</li> <li>One man was killed and two others wounded in a Fernwood neighborhood shooting early Tuesday on the Far South Side. The men were sitting in a vehicle at 12:58 a.m. in the 200 block of West 107th Street when another male walked up and fired multiple shots into the vehicle, according to police. The victims drove to the 8600 block of South Halsted, where they flagged down an Illinois State Police trooper for help. <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/deylion-lavell-spencer/">Deylion L. Spencer</a>, 30, was shot in the back and was taken to Christ Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead less than an hour later. He lived in the South Side Washington Heights neighborhood. A 24-year-old man suffered two gunshot wounds to the arm and abdomen, while a 25-year-old man was shot in the arm, leg and buttocks, police said. They were also taken to Christ, where they were listed in serious condition.</li> <li>A 46-year-old man died about an hour after he was shot Monday afternoon in the South Shore neighborhood. About 2:10 p.m., <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/marshall-carter/">Marshall Carter</a> was standing outside in the back of a home in the 7300 block of South Dante when someone walked up and fired shots, according to police and the medical examiner's office. Carter, who lived in the same neighborhood, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:53 p.m.</li> <li>About 1:15 a.m., 34-year-old <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/adam-furtick/">Adam Furtick</a> was found shot inside a vehicle in the 4300 block of West 79th Street in the Scottsdale neighborhood on the Southwest Side, authorities said. Furtick, who lived in southwest suburban Bridgeview, had suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen and was taken to Christ Medical Center, where he died at 6:15 a.m.</li> <li>A man was shot to death early Monday in the East Chatham neighborhood on the South Side. <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/joshua-williams/">Joshua Williams</a>, 24, was with several males at 12:37 a.m., walking in an alley in the 8300 block of South Ingleside when someone opened fire, according to police and the medical examiner's office. Williams was shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene. He lived in South Shore.</li> </ul> <p><em>--Homicide Watch Chicago</em></p> Jeff MayesThu, 19 Oct 2017 15:00:21 -0500http://homicides.suntimes.com/2017/10/19/week-in-review-killed-week-of-oct-9-15/Devon CaffieVictor CarrilloMarshall CarterValentino CockerhamSylvester DuarteDionysus EnglishAdam FurtickJustin GilbertSimone D. McKaySharrod L. PeoplesTrevail RidgellDeylion L. SpencerCynthia TrevillionJoshua WilliamsReno D. WooldridgeCarlos DuarteSimone 'Coco' McKay shot to death on her front porch, just blocks from Chicago State, where she was a studenthttp://homicides.suntimes.com/2017/10/17/simone-coco-mckay-shot-to-death-on-her-front-porch-just-blocks-from-chicago-state-where-she-was-a-student/<p><iframe src="http://homicides.suntimes.com/api/v1/homicides/2699.html" width="100%" height="350" frameborder=0></iframe></p> <p>By MATTHEW HENDRICKSON, ASHLEE REZIN and JEFF MAYES<br /> Chicago Sun-Times</p> <img src="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/17426014_10209214633779794_6708181083725680542_n-169x300.jpg" alt="Simone &#039;Coco&#039; Mckay | Facebook" width="169" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-29141" srcset="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/17426014_10209214633779794_6708181083725680542_n-169x300.jpg 169w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/17426014_10209214633779794_6708181083725680542_n-500x889.jpg 500w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/17426014_10209214633779794_6708181083725680542_n-450x800.jpg 450w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/17426014_10209214633779794_6708181083725680542_n.jpg 540w" sizes="(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Simone 'Coco' Mckay | Facebook</p> <p><a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/simone-d-mckay/">Simone D. McKay</a>, a young mother of two, was found shot to death early Sunday on the front porch of her home in the Rosemoor neighborhood, just blocks away from Chicago State University, where she was a student.</p> <p>Officers responded to a call of a person shot shortly after midnight and found the 26-year-old unresponsive on the porch of her home in the 9600 block of South Forest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.</p> <p>She had been shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:13 a.m., authorities said.</p> <p>Her neighbors described hearing a single loud shot. Some thought it could be thunder or a lightning strike, but soon after, the block was filled with police vehicles and investigators began knocking on doors.</p> <p>One man, who watched the scene from his porch, said he couldn’t believe that the victim was the “clean cut, put together woman” he frequently saw coming and going.<br /> <span id="more-29133"></span><br /> <fb:post href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210287457919903&#038;set=a.1778543460432.2089705.1144740110&#038;type=3&#038;theater"></fb:post></p> <p>“It’s just too sad to think about,” he said. “It looked like she was just going up inside.”</p> <p>The bungalow-lined block where McKay lived and died is filled with families and seniors, her neighbors said. Kids who live on the block frequently play together in the yards, and neighbors are friendly but keep to themselves.</p> <p><img src="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/img_0025-300x225.jpg" alt="Simone McKay, 26, was shot to death on the porch of her home in the 9600 block of South Forest. | Matthew Hendrickson/Sun-Times" width="300" height="225" class="size-medium wp-image-29138" srcset="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/img_0025-300x225.jpg 300w, http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/img_0025.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Simone McKay, 26, was shot to death on the porch of her home in the 9600 block of South Forest. | Matthew Hendrickson/Sun-Times</p><br /> “It’s quiet, but lately it’s been quieter. I think everyone is stunned, numb,” a neighbor who gave her name as Karen said. “She was a nice person, a loving mother.” </p> <p>Known as "Coco," McKay was a 2009 graduate of Marist High School.A post on the Marist Alumni Facebook page read: "The Marist community mourns the loss of Simone McKay ’09. Please keep her family and friends in your thoughts and prayers." </p> <p>She attended Tennessee State University before enrolling as a biology major at Chicago State, where she was a senior, according to school spokesman Wendell Hutson.</p> <p>She was a member of the Minority Association of Pre-Health Students. That group will conduct a candlelight ceremony at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the CSU Quad, near the student union building and CTA stop off South Saint Lawrence Avenue.</p> <p><fb:post href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10212283593822455&#038;set=a.1566303234961.2076345.1156800113&#038;type=3&#038;theater"></fb:post></p> <p>She was also a part-time employee of Chicago Public Schools, where she had worked in the Office of Early Childhood Education since August 2015.</p> <p>“Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Simone McKay,” a statement from CPS spokesman Michael Passman said. “The Chicago Public Schools family is deeply saddened by this tragic loss.”</p> <p>McKay had a son, Devin Jr.; and a daughter, Peighton. <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/devinandpeighton">A GoFundMe page has been set up to start an education fund for the children.</a></p> <p>“I try my best not to ask for things I don’t need but I have a request,” McKay’s uncle, Earl McKay, posted to Facebook. “Please pray for me and my family. Although my spirit is damaged and heart is heavy, the Lord has us covered.”</p> <p>Two women, who live across the street with young children of their own, said McKay moved to the block earlier this year.</p> <p><fb:post href="https://www.facebook.com/AmarieStylesCelebrity/posts/10155296632527585"></fb:post></p> <p>“She was always friendly,” one of the women said. “Since we have kids, we’d talk a bit, but she was busy. She was sweet, but she kept to herself.”</p> <p>The other woman said she wouldn’t feel at ease again until someone was in custody.</p> <p>“I don’t know how someone could do this to her,” she said.</p> <p>No one was in custody as of Tuesday morning as Area South detectives conduct a homicide investigation.</p> <p>A police source said the shooting may be domestic-related.</p> Jeff MayesTue, 17 Oct 2017 09:38:21 -0500http://homicides.suntimes.com/2017/10/17/simone-coco-mckay-shot-to-death-on-her-front-porch-just-blocks-from-chicago-state-where-she-was-a-student/Simone D. McKay