'You broke a whole family': Family mourns man killed at 27th and Atkinson

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MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — Another family has been torn apart by gun violence in Milwaukee.

On Monday, loved ones are remembering a 64-year-old man shot and killed near 27th and Atkinson.

At the scene in front of Gary's Food Mart, black tape covers one of the bullet holes, a stark reminder of Sunday night's shooting.

"You're driving the bus. There are five people on the bus. Two people get off, and one person gets on. How much does bus driver weigh?" said Marcus Smith in a video taken before he was shot.

On Sunday night, he was shot and killed on Milwaukee's north side.

"He loved his family and it's unnecessary. I can't believe this has happened," said Marcus Smith's younger sister.

Investigators say he was walking down the street with a woman, 50-year-old Sandra Lee, when they were both shot and killed.

"Now we gotta sit here and pick up the pieces," said JB, Marcus Smith's niece.

Willy works at Gary's Food Mart. He was closing up when he says he heard four single shots.

"We looked out the curtain, and we saw a young lady laying here, where that brick is, and young man was laying right here where this spot is," Willy explained. "So, police came down here, started chest pumping the young lady, chest pumped the young man here, but later on we found out they did pass."

Shortly after the shooting, Smith's younger sister got a call that her brother had been killed. She rushed to the scene.

"I wanted to get closer to my brother. I wanted to hold his hand or kiss him goodbye or whatever, you know, that's my brother," said Smith's sister.

On Monday, Smith's family, including his niece, JB, came together, leaning on each other for support.

"My family is...we doing what we can to hold each other up, which my uncle want us to do, but it's hard. I miss my uncle. I miss my uncle. My uncle didn't deserve to go like that," said JB.

Smith's sister has a message for the man that shot her older brother.

"Tell him you broke a whole family up. A whole family has to bury someone that we would have never had to. He was 60 something, he would have lived to 80 something. How is my mama burying her child?" said Smith's sister.

This is the second deadly double shooting in Milwaukee in the last two days.

A 26-year-old was taken into custody Sunday night in connection to this shooting.

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