West Ridge residents unnerved after third fatal shooting in less than a week: ‘We need more security’

Two men where shot, one fatally, while sitting in a car at the corner of North Rockwell Street and West Estes Avenue in West Ridge on Tuesday. The North Side neighborhood has seen an uptick in killings this year. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Zehra Parnaby said she had to muster the courage to step outside her West Ridge home after a fatal shooting occurred just a few feet from her door on the North Side on Tuesday.

“I just really had to push myself to get out, and I didn’t want to walk over there,” Parnaby said. “I kind of had to say to myself, OK this is one incident, but If I’m at the wrong place at the wrong time it could be me.”