Family mourns man fatally shot while on Facebook Live in Austin: ‘I’m hurt, angry, sad, sick’

Kevin Watson was jailed when he was 15 and often told young relatives — from his 7-year-old son to his nieces and nephews — “not to follow in his footsteps,” his sister said. “We have some [relatives] going off to college right now, honors program children who are into sports because of him,” Teletha Watson, his younger sister, said. “He came back into the community and that’s who he went for, the kids and the teenagers.” Kevin Watson, 40, was streaming on Facebook Live about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday in the 5000 block of West Madison Street when a driver approached him and an occupant of the car fired shots, Chicago police and his sister said. Teletha Watson, 35, scrambled to Mount Sinai Hospital after getting a call from their sister saying that Kevin Watson had been shot while he streamed on Facebook Live. A couple of hours earlier, the two were laughing and buying popsicles and candy at a gas station. “He’s a fighter, that’s what was going through my head,” Teletha Watson said as she recounted what was going through her mind as she rushed to the hospital. “He’s going to be okay. Nothing’s going to happen. I’m almost
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