Bernard Monroe saw a chance to make some money shoveling driveways after the snow in Chicago on Wednesday evening.
“He said, ‘I’m going to go out here and make us some money,'” his aunt, Sharon Rolland, told the Chicago Tribune. He grabbed a shovel, headed for the door, and was dead only minutes later.
At around 7:20 that evening, Rolland went outside to see Monroe lying beside his shovel with a gunshot wound to the right side of his head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police recovered a shell casing from the scene and then found a weapon one block east of the shooting.
Rolland said that Monroe was known for helping people out around the neighborhood.
“The only thing he do is go to the food pantry. He give food to the people in the neighborhood… And he helps everyone,” Rolland said. “Everybody know him.”
She said someone may have tried to rob Monroe while he was out shoveling.
There have not been any arrests in the case nor any available description of the gunman.