
Son of anti-violence worker shot during Memorial Day weekend
This act of violence is only pushing the father and mentor harder to save boys and girls. CBS 2's Jermont Terry reports.
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This act of violence is only pushing the father and mentor harder to save boys and girls. CBS 2's Jermont Terry reports.
After more than a decade of helping teens realize violence is not the way, Lavonte Stewart said, "it literally came through my front door."
The shooting took place near 70th and Halsted streets.
A group of people were on the sidewalk in the 7000 block of South Halsted Street when someone began shooting from a gray Dodge Durango.
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"The shooting that happened on this street makes you rethink everything."
The accused attacker has been arrested.
The accused attacker has been arrested.
The girl was transported to St. Francis Hospital in good condition.
Memorial Day weekend is proving to be a violent one in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood.
Memorial Day weekend is proving to be a violent one in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood.
The girl was transported to St. Francis Hospital in good condition.
"The shooting that happened on this street makes you rethink everything."
Sian Carter, 20, of Bolingbrook, was shot in the 500 block of Rebecca Lane, authorties say.
All three were taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital by the Chicago Fire Department.
The man handling the gun was struck in the left hand, and a 25-year-old man in the room was struck in the stomach.
The off-duty officer was handling the gun when it went off, striking a 25-year-old man in the stomach.
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"His mom moved out and he stayed here, because he didn't want to go to Chicago, because he was afraid of getting shot," the boy's grandmother said.
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The officer was taken to Stroger Hospital of Cook County with a graze wound.
A SWAT team used a Chicago fire truck to climb up and find the man.
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"We're trying to keep our neighborhood nice and clean - and then you come out and you see this!" said Sam Giasimis.
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It is unclear whether either of the two people charged in each shooting actually fired a weapon.
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