CHICAGO (CBS) — A landlord in the Back of the Yards neighborhood was attacked and killed recently, and police suspect his tenant in the deadly stabbing.
The landlord, Lorenzo Lavalle, is remembered as a pillar in the community – even helping newly-arriving migrants getting on their feet.
His wife, Katia Espinoza, said her husband treated his tenants in the six-unit wood-frame apartment building in the 1700 block of West 45th Street as more than just neighbors.
“In the building, my husband always tried like that people there be like a family,” said Espinoza.
But it was one of those neighbors – Rolando Esbin Morales, 32 – who police said would end up taking Lavalle’s life last Monday night. The altercation was captured on camera.
The surveillance video shows Lavalle backing out of one of the units in the building moments before he was stabbed in the chest – and then running down the hallway.
