A 78-year-old Navy veteran was found shot to death Tuesday night in his Southwest Side home, Chicago police said.
Just after 8 p.m., officers responded to a residence in the 4500 block of South Lamon Avenue in the LeClaire Courts neighborhood, where they discovered Marvin Cook with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Cook’s family described him as a loving man who often opened his home to friends, neighbors, and family for cookouts and gatherings.
“Marvin didn’t bother nobody. His house was always open… But most of all, he loved his children,” a relative told WGN News.
No arrests have been made. Area One Detectives are investigating the death as a homicide.
Cook was home alone at the time of the shooting; his wife passed away several years ago. His family issued a plea to whoever is responsible:
“I just pray they turn themselves in, because if anybody is going to forgive them, God will, and we will, too. Just turn yourself in.”