Three-year-old Anthony Brown Jr. didn't understand what hadhappened.
The boy heard shots, saw his father fall to the ground in aSouth Side parking lot and put his arms around his dying father.
It might have been a gang-related shooting, police said, thatsuddenly took the life of Anthony Brown, 19.
Shirley Brown, 22, the slain man's sister, said yesterdayAnthony Jr. still doesn't realize his father is dead.
"He keeps going to the window and saying, `Where is my daddy?'He keeps looking for his daddy to come in the car."
The slain man's mother, Claudia Brown, a widow who has 11surviving children, said:
"I'm so sad. I'm so hurt. I'm hoping the police arrest whoeverdid this and that they get what is coming to them."
Brown was shot while walking to the driver's side of his carseconds after he had placed his son in the car at the McDonald'srestaurant parking lot at 740 E. 47th St. Wednesday night.
The fusillade of bullets fatally wounded the father, althoughthe boy - his clothing covered with blood - didn't realize that.
As the boy clung to his father, the gunmen aimed their weaponsat a second car containing the father's two brothers, Larry Brown,20, and Duane Brown, 15, which was passing by.
Their car was struck by bullets, but neither was wounded.
Relatives said the two brothers then picked up their mortallywounded brother and the child and drove them to Provident Hospital,where the father was dead on arrival.
Brown had just picked his son up from the home of the boy's mother, Debra Scott, 21, near the parking lot, the slain man'smother said.
The slaying came as Mayor Washington said the city's anti-gangprogram is "on the right track" and will get police and civilianreinforcements next year.
Washington, taping the "Chicago News Conference" program to be broadcast at 7 a.m. and 9p.m. Sunday by WMAQ-AM (670), asserted that the anti-gang program,which has been operating at a pace of $4.9 million a year in city andfederal aid, has cut gang-related serious crime by 30 percent.
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