A Northwest Side man who loved wrestling and Batman, Moises Antonio Gonzalez was killed in a shooting that also left another man seriously wounded last week in the Archer Heights neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Friends and family members said Moises Gonzalez loved wrestling and Batman. | Facebook
Gonzalez, 25, was standing in the street at 2:14 a.m. Wednesday in the 4100 block of West 47th Street with another man when a third man fired shots at them from a gangway, according to Chicago Police.
Gonzalez was shot in the chest and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at at 2:53 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 4700 block of West Shakespeare.
A 22-year-old man was also shot in the chest and was taken to Mount Sinai in serious condition, police said.
Gonzalez was a graduate of Lawndale Little Village High School, where he was a standout wrestler, and was putting himself through college while wrestling professionally, most recently with UPW Pro Wrestling.
A GoFundMe page set up to help the family and to pay for funeral expenses said of Gonzalez: "He was a wrestler, student, son and brother."
The page had raised more than $7,000 in the first five days it was up.
Another aspiring pro wrestler, Coery Wells of Appletin, Wisconsin, said of Gonazalez in a Facebook post: "We've shared the ring on a few occasions, not once did you act like you knew everything, and you were always filled with questions. The skills you had in the ring may not have been perfectly honed, but you always wanted to learn and improve, and get better with each match. In a sport that everyone is supposed to act out, "Hey look at me, give me the attention!" you were always selfless."
--Homicide Watch Chicago