The wreath and flowers were placed carefully outside Lois Hicks apartment.
Hicks, 87, had lived at the complex for a long time. She was always friendly; always had a smile on her face.
“She was like an angel. She was a real sweet lady, her neighbor Ron Gatling said.
Gatling added that Hicks was a good neighbor.
“She’s going to be missed, Gatling said.
Police said Zachary Arnold, 26, shot Hicks in her home Saturday morning in an apartment complex in the 3500 block of South 74th Street. Arnold also lived at the apartment complex.
Arnold was armed with a semi-automatic rifle and after he shot Hicks, police said he continued to shoot at neighboring apartments.
Donnie Simpson will host
The Donnie Simpson Weekend Show, a two-hour program featuring music and interviews from the legendary DJ’s archives.
Co-hosted by
Tony Perkins,
The Donnie Simpson Weekend Show launches this weekend (Jan. 9-10) from Reach Media and will play every weekend thereafter on a total of nine affiliate stations including WAMJ-HD2 in Atlanta; WWIN in Baltimore; WOSL in Cincinnati; WZAK in Cleveland; WXMG in Columbus; WPPZ in Philadelphia; WFXC in Raleigh; WKJS in Richmond; and WMMJ in Washington D.C. Each episode will center around a specific music theme.
Over a career spanning 51 years, Simpson has hosted radio programs for stations including WJLB in Detroit and WKYS and WMMJ in Washington, D.C., where he and Perkins currently co-host afternoons. On TV, he also served as a VJ/host for BET’s