Left with his guilt outside the apartment, apart from the family, was a cousin of Foggey’s father.
Odis Looney was a Gangster Disciple – when the GDs were an actual organization instead of loosely organized, often internally conflicted group of cliques under the flag of a six-point star – and sold drugs all over the city.
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He was in and out of prison until a few years ago, trying to be there for his kids when he was out but in often enough to wonder how his kids made college and avoided the streets.
“I got three sons. The middle one is still trying to find his way but he’s not out here in these (expletive) streets, and I’m proud,” he said.
Foggey Jr.’s is the second death of a young man close to him over the last year – deaths he said he carries some responsibility for because of the years he spent in the streets.
“I was a Gangster Disciple. I sold drugs all over the city. I never knew they was hurting my people. Look what happened? Yes sir, I feel guilty about it.”
The son of Looney’s fiancée was killed in September. Looney said he and his fiancee gave the teen, who was about six weeks away from his 20th birthday when he died, an ultimatum – get a job or get out of the house.
He recalled the young man walking a little more upright after he came home from work his second day, wanting to get his GED or a diploma because he had dropped out of school to hang out in Englewood, where he grew up.
Rush, who had two felony convictions from 2011 but no arrests after that, according to court records, was found shot in the back in an alley about 7 p.m. Sept. 28 and died about 2 a.m. the next day, authorities said at the time. He told police he had heard a shot and felt a pain in his back from a bullet wound. Court and police records indicate no one has been arrested in his slaying.
“He died on my watch. I felt I wasn’t being a father for him. Never sat him down and told him how much I cared for him, how much I loved him.”
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