Quiltavia Patterson was an aspiring rapper who left Chicago months ago to try to remove her 3-year-old twins from harm’s way.
Jermaine Carter was a well-known tattoo artist in the West Pullman neighborhood who many endearingly called “Face,” friends said.
Early Tuesday morning, both Patterson and Carter were near Eggleston Avenue and 120th Street when a dark-colored car drove by and someone inside opened fire, police said.
Patterson, 25, was declared dead at the scene. Carter, 38, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead. Patterson’s 22-year-old sister and a 30-year-old man were seriously wounded in the shooting, police said.
Patterson, who moved to Springfield about four months ago, had returned to Chicago to see family and celebrate a relative’s fourth birthday. She and her sister left their mother’s house between 1:30 a.m. and shortly after 2 a.m. to see a friend, relatives said. The shooting took place a few blocks from the family home in West Pullman.
Patterson graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in community health and planned to look for a job in the field within the next year once her children were settled in school, said her mother, Cynthia Patterson.
“She had a good life ahead of her,” said her second cousin, Jacqueline Temples. “We don’t know what she was going to be.”
Tribune reporters William Lee and Carlos Sadovi contributed.
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