But another neighbor expressed shock. “This isn’t the wild, wild West,” Eddie Hason said. “This is a good community.”

Angela Newsom, 58, a former 26th Ward committeewoman, said she convinced a witness to tell police what she saw.

“It’s not all right for us to keep killing each other,” Newsom said as she stood across the street from the crime scene. “We don’t need Al Sharpton for this. We need to start taking our own communities back block-by-block. When we see things that are not right we need to address it immediately.”

Newsom said crime in her area went down during the protests in Ferguson. “Everybody was concerned about Michael Brown,” she said. “Now it is business as usual. It’s almost like they are trying to catch up with the madness.”

SHOOTINGS THURSDAY

The stretch of violence began just before 3 p.m. Thursday when at least two shooters opened fire with AK-47 and AR-15 rifles at Adelaide Avenue and Hall Street, police said. They wounded what police said were two innocent victims and killed a third, retired Army veteran Donald White, 52. He was struck in the chest and died at a hospital. Police found more than 50 shell casings at the scene.