Family didn’t have to go far after learning the young man had been shot. He grew up in the 5600 block of South Elizabeth and still had family all over this part of Englewood.

“We on 57th,” Taylor yelled into her phone. “They ain’t even letting us see his (expletive) body.”

She and others who gathered stood in the alley facing the body, partially hidden from view by a garbage can.

The lots each side of where the small crowd formed sat vacant and recently mowed with tall patches remaining where mowers maneuvered around chunks of concrete or other detritus.

“Bring her to my car!” a woman yelled as three people tried to carry Taylor, who was collapsing under the weight of her grief. “Bring her to my (expletive) car!”

Police pushed the crowd down to the end of the alley near 57th Street. Taylor and those trying to help her moved a step slower and when they reached the end of the alley and the weight of her body fell back just a little, her family holding her up, police waited.

“She’s OK, she’s OK,” the sergeant said, opting to run the tape behind her instead of making her move farther along.

Nine minutes after Taylor arrived, her relatives lifted her feet first into a waiting SUV and drove her a few blocks away to the dead man’s grandmother’s house. Her cousin remained in the alley.