Marine Veteran, 60, Gunned Down For $8
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Police are looking for the killer of a Chicago Marine Corps veteran who was murdered on the way to his dialysis treatment.
Friends remember Robert Sharpe, as a person who radiated kindness.
"That man was just one of a kind," friend Pete Anderson tells CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot.
Anderson says he often drove the fellow veteran to the El, when Sharpe went to dialysis.
Sharpe, 60, was heading for treatment around 5 a.m. Saturday. He was at a bus stop at Kedzie and Franklin when, police say, a man wearing a half-mask demanded Sharpe's wallet and showed him a chrome-plated revolver.
The former Marine refused. There was a struggle, and the thief shot Sharpe and fled with the bag the 60 year-old always carried on his shoulder.
The armed robber got away with $8 and credit cards, the mortally wounded Sharpe reportedly told police.
"It's a tragedy. The young man who did that, he took something -- a treasure from us, you know, forever. It was just useless," Anderson says.
Another friend of Sharpe, Filomeno Barco, says: "That's the kind of world we live in now. It's just so much craziness and meanness."
Sharpe was fatally shot about a block from his apartment building in West Humboldt Park. Building manager Emily Diebold says Sharpe was a true gentleman—always wearing a suit and tie and regularly visiting his mother on Fridays.
She says Sharpe was a corporal when he left the Marines in 1990.