Inside Chicago's Endless Cycle of Gun Violence - RollingStone.com
arly in the evening on July 26, 2012, Michael Haynes was cruising around Morgan Park on Chicago's Far South Side when he and his friends, Harry "Slick" Fullilove and Lester "Doogie" Freeman, got word of a fight about to break out. Haynes — who went by Mikey, though also answered to "Big Bro," "Lil' Bro," and "God Bro," because so many Morgan Park residents considered him family — was a 22-year-old basketball star five days away from heading to Iona College in New York. Slick owned the burgundy Buick and was letting Mikey drive to take a farewell victory lap of the neighborhood. Mikey turned north up Vincennes Avenue, past neat rows of squat single-family Section-8 homes, and parked near the corner of 116 Mikey was adored in this tight-knit neighborhood. Mikey parked in front of a house that belonged to Cinque "Q" Lee. On the other side of the street, his friend Dominique Parkman, a rail-thin 22 year old who went by "Don P," was barking threats at JaJuan Lewis, a well-built running back who played college ball in Florida. Whereas Mikey, the star athlete, got royal treatment in the neighborhood, Q received abuse. Source: www.rollingstone.com
