Posted on 09/05/2018 9:42:46 AM PDT by Simon Green
A Northwestern University doctoral student who beat cancer was one of six people shot to death over the weekend in Chicago, gunned down by a stray bullet when he walked into the middle of a gunfight just four hours after arriving in the city to start school, police and his mother said.
Shane Colombo, 25, was killed Sunday in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago while on an errand to buy clothes hangers, said his mother, Tonya Colombo of Menifee, California
"He was a bright, beautiful, amazing son. And he was so loving," the tearful mother told ABC News in a phone interview minutes after identifying her son Tuesday afternoon at the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office in Chicago.
Shane Colombo was fatally shot about 8:25 p.m. on Sunday, when he got caught in the crossfire of a gun battle between two people, according to officials at the Chicago Police Department. He was shot once in the abdomen and taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, where he died, police said.
Police were working Tuesday to identify suspects in Colombo's killing, but no arrests were made.
He was one of a half-dozen people shot dead in Chicago over the long Labor Day weekend, police said. The other homicide victims ranged in age from 18 to 41 and included two women.
Tonya Colombo said her son had just arrived in Chicago to live with his fiancé, Vincent Perez.
"I was very concerned about him coming out here, and he was killed within four hours of being in the city, four hours of stepping off that plane," Colombo's mother told ABC News.
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People new to an area are not aware of the areas to stay out of.
Four hours is not a long time to acclimate yourself.
My advice to anyone moving to a new city is to call the local Domino’s and ask them where are the good and bad places to live.
LOL
Might be a great suggestion.
You know, it’s very sad our nation has sunk to this level, and nothing is done about it.
Once again, we have an AG that just isn’t qualified or motivated to do his job.
The city of Shitcagp has been a Democrat run cesspool for more than a century you cannot legally purchase a handgun in the city . There are no gun stores in the city. Yet gun owners ,the NRA, Republicans get blamed for the crimes of the Democrat savages that reside in that place!
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