In de nacht van dinsdag op woensdag is in Chicago het huis van Jeff Tweedy, zanger-gitarist van Wilco en producer van de Mavis Staples-abums ‘You are not alone’(2010), ‘One true vine’(2014) en ‘If all I was was black’ (2016), beschoten.
Tweedy en zijn gezin lagen te slapen toen rond twee uur ongeveer tien schoten op hun huis werden afgevuurd.
Tweedy’s vrouw, Susan Miller Tweedy, schreef een bericht op Facebook waarin ze het incident vrij zakelijk beschreef:
‘You now how every time you hear loud pops you think…. Was that fireworks or gunshots? Well, when it’s really gunfire, there is zero question about it…. especially when it hits your house. Last night/this morning at 2AM there were 7 to 10 shots fired at what sounded like right at our house. It was the loudest and scariest thing I’ve ever heard and set our alarm off. I called 911 and they either didn’t come or I didn’t se them, but while I was looking for them out the windows upstairs, I looked down and saw that our house had been shot. A bullet went through the storm door to our balcony and lodged in the wooden door. We re-freaked out and I called 911 again. They finally came but basically just wrote a report and left. In the light of day today, Jeff found 7 shell casings outside. The police came and got them. I also called the alderman’s office. Not sure what else to do, and not sure whu I’m sharing, except to say be careful out there. It was terryfying AF.’
Vervolgens zette ze nog een post op Facebook waarin ze stelde dat zij, haar man en hun kinderen wél van Chicago houden:
‘Guys. We love Chicago. A lot. What happened was horrible, but we still love our city and our neighborhood. Getting a lot of Chicago hate about what happened, so just wanted to get that out there,’
Dat was dan weer een reactie op alle negatieve reacties op haar eerste bericht, want haar werd verweten dat ze het had gedurfd geweld in Chicago te melden.
Vandaar dat de familie verder commentaar op het incident weigert, hoewel de interne logica van deze keten van gebeurtenissen ons ontgaat…