CHICAGO — Family members said Xavier Lofton, of Bellwood, Illinois, sorted mail on the graveyard shift so that he could chase his dreams during the day. Good with his hands, the postal worker, who had an associate degree in business, filled the daytime hours fixing cars, hoisting drywall and, in recent years, followed his father into real estate. The pair worked to rehab and flip homes.
“He was a hard worker. He had a lot of little side hustles,” his dad, Herman, told the Tribune. “He was a jack-of-all-trades. If he didn’t know how to do it, he was on YouTube.”
On Friday, Lofton and two others were killed in a shooting on the city’s West Side.
