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The latest fatal attack happened about 3:10 p.m. Saturday in the 6100 block of South Ashland Avenue in the Englewood neighborhood. Two men, ages 20 and 33, were at a gas station parking lot when a dark vehicle pulled up and someone inside fired shots at them, striking the older man in the chest and the younger one in an “unknown” part of the body, police said.
The victim left the event and dropped off two people with his daughter riding along with him. At some point, the victim noticed he was being followed by Hood. Once he entered an intersection, prosecutors said, someone opened fire, wounding the victim, who is now paralyzed from the waist down.
“But as you saw from that horrific video, it wasn’t just one person. There’s one person who dealt the fatal shot, but there were others who were standing by, who dragged that poor woman out of the car, the man who was killed literally used his body as a shield and he paid for that with his life,” Lightfoot said, calling it a “horrific statement” about those involved.
Bryan Tart, 36, of the 2300 block of West Washington Boulevard, was extradited Thursday from Kokomo, Indiana, by the Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force and charged in the October 2020 death of 26-year-old Rodjzae Funches-Heard, according to police.
The cost of the project was estimated at $455,000 in 2020, according to previous Chicago Tribune reporting. The removal will be paid for by the Lower DuPage River Watershed Coalition according to the statement. The removal process has been delayed as the project needed to be approved by multiple local, state, and federal regulatory agencies, according to the district.
The age cutoff for Friday was partly due to practical constraints, said Lalley, because they wanted to limit the number of sizes they handled. But, according to Lalley, they had also received feedback that as children get older, they become more “concerned about the logos on the side of their shoes,” he said. Operation Warm’s shoes aren’t branded. Since the pilot distribution last year, the organization has also changed the style of shoe distributed, from a slip-on to a lace-up tennis shoe that children could run around in.
Before becoming mayor, Lightfoot served as head of the Chicago Police Board, the panel that rules on police discipline, and chaired then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Police Accountability Task Force. At the same time, she has been criticized by police reform activists who say she has been too friendly with law enforcement.
“I’ve had clients’ girlfriends and wives and kids contact us and say, ‘Well, if we do the speedy trial thing, that could bring him home.’ And it’s just, that’s not really the practical effect, there’s just so much else to consider,” attorney Alana De Leon told the Tribune. “That’s just coming from a place of emotion, hearing that about what Kim Foxx said and just thinking like, ‘this is it, that’s the ticket, that’s the golden ticket,’ and its practical effect is not like that.”
“There were certainly some conversations about that, and we had a long conversation about what, from my perspective, I thought we were seeing, not just in Chicago, but really across the U.S.,” Lightfoot said in a Zoom call with reporters to discuss the trip. “They’re in the city of San Francisco. They’re proximate to L.A. They obviously know a lot about New York and other markets they’re in that are experiencing the same kinds of challenges that we are over this last year around public safety.”
“Expect several waves of showers through early next week,” the weather service said in a hazardous weather outlook. “Thunderstorms would be favored during the afternoon hours. Severe weather is not expected, but locally heavy downpours may occur.”