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  "path": "/crime/2026/03/30/englewood-home-shooting",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-31T03:02:39.358Z",
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  "textContent": "<p>Jennifer Lacey felt like 2026 was going to be her year. </p><p>She had just gotten promoted at work. Her kids were doing well. And she had just moved into a new home with her fiancé, Antwan Washington.</p><p>Then her 11-year-old son woke up to find bullet holes in the living room wall and his dad motionless on the couch. At first, Lacey thought he was asleep.</p><p>\"From the position he was sitting, it looked like he was asleep,\" Lacey said. \"So I tapped him, like, 'Babe, get up. You have to get to work.' ... He just falls to the right, and that's when I see that he was shot in the head. ... Just the worst day of my life, ever.\"</p><p>Washington, 45, had been shot in the head and was pronounced dead on the scene, according to Chicago police.</p><p>He was in his home watching TV in the 5700 block of South May Street around 5 a.m. Saturday when two people got out of a gray 4-door sedan and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/03/28/man-fatally-shot-inside-englewood-home\" >fired handguns into the apartment</a>, according to a police report. The car fled the scene. Police found 16 shell casings in the intersection.</p><p>\"He wasn't doing anything but doing his normal morning routine: getting up in the morning, you know, washing up, brushing his teeth, you know, getting dressed and making his coffee and smoking his cigarette,\" Lacey, 33, said through tears.</p><p>The police report states that someone else in the building was the intended target of the shooting.</p><p>\"There's really no motivation for it,\" Lacey said. \"We're just a working family just wanting to raise our kids.\" </p><p>Now Lacey is grappling with the aftermath of his death. She must now raise their four sons without their father. Her future plans are shattered: a housewarming party at their new home, hosting family for barbecues and watching their kids grow up. Washington also leaves behind a 21-year-old son from a previous relationship, she said.</p><p>\"I will continue to let my kids know how much he did love them, how much of a leader he was, and how much positivity he instilled in them as children,\" she said.</p><p>Lacey described Washington as a \"protector\" who worked hard and loved his family. He could often be found playing video games with his sons, barbecuing in the summer and listening to Earth, Wind & Fire or 2Pac. He was a manager at an Englewood Chipotle and had recently moved to manage a team at a Bridgeport location, Lacey said.</p><p>No one is in custody, police said.</p><p>A <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-antwans-family-after-tragic-loss\" target=\"_blank\" >GoFundMe</a> set up by his fiancée had raised $2,500 of a $10,000 goal by Monday night. It said the \"simple moments meant everything to him and his family.\"</p><p><i>Contributing: Violet Miller</i></p>",
  "title": "Englewood dad fatally shot in his home was family's 'protector,' fiancé says",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-31T03:05:55.796Z"
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