Bernard Monroe, 60, fatally shot while shoveling neighbor's sidewalk in Roseland

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A 60-year-old man was shot and killed while shoveling snow on Chicago's Far South Side.

Police said Bernard Monroe, 60, was shot around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday near 114th and Prairie in the Roseland neighborhood. Monroe was known in the neighborhood as a gentle giant on his quiet block. His loved ones are stunned by his death.

"He come out to shovel snow. Twenty minutes later, he gone. He shot him in the head. Right there. I don't know why," said Sharon Rolland, the victim's aunt.

Police said Monroe was found lying in the snow with a gunshot wound to his head. Monroe's aunt says he was shoveling the sidewalk in front of a neighbor's house and would often clear the entire block as a courtesy.

"He shovels everybody's snow in the neighborhood. He never did anything to nobody," Rolland said.

Police have not offered a motive for the shooting. Monroe's aunt thinks he may have been the victim of a botched robbery, though she says he didn't carry around much cash.

Monroe's aunt says he was on disability and lived with her, where he helped raise her children. To earn extra cash, he did odd jobs around the neighborhood.

"He saw me yesterday morning. He said, 'It's going to snow today. I'm going to go out here and work, make some change, buy some sugar,'" Rolland said.

Monroe's aunt says he raised her kids into adulthood and the family has lost a patriarch.