44-year-old man fatally shot in West Pullman

A man killed last week in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side was shot when someone opened fire on a porch in the block.

Tony Goodrich Sr., 44, was shot in the neck about 8:15 p.m. Sept. 26 in the 12300 block of South Emerald Drive, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

His wife, Arkyta Goodrich, said he was standing outside his mother’s home talking with her neighbors when someone began shooting at a group of people on a porch in the block from the corner.

He had left his home nearby about 30 minutes earlier to visit her, and did not get a chance to see his mother before he was shot.

Arkyta said she met her husband when she was 6-years-old. They grew up across the street from each other and began dating in 1996. In 2002, they were married.

“He was a family man,” she said of his dedication to her and their four children.

When their daughter was having trouble with a customer at the fast-food restaurant where she worked, he went with her to work for four months, she said, to make sure she was safe.

Arkyta said she hoped to hold a march against violence in the area in his honor after his funeral.

Area South detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.