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Adoctoral student’s dissertation usually marks a new beginning the last step in a long academic journey and the start of a promising career. But as Chicago Booth professor Zhiguo He read through the work left behind by his former student, the late Yiran Fan, SM’15,he felt a profound sense of loss.
Yiran Fan
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Fan was shot and killed on Jan. 9, devastating the University of Chicago community. Originally from China, the 30-year-old student was in the fourth year of the Joint Program in Financial Economics. Fan had not yet proposed a dissertation topic at the time of his death, but when his professors and classmates examined his work, they began exploring the possibility of completing Fan’s Ph.D. in his honor.
Woman held hostage, shot at Evanston IHOP during deadly shooting spree has died
By FOX 32 Digital Staff
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Shooting rampage in Chicago and Evanston ends with suspect dead
A man named Jason Nightengale randomly killed three people in Chicago, wounded several others, shot a woman at an IHOP in Evanston, and got into a shootout with police before he was shot and killed Saturday night, police said.
CHICAGO - A woman who was shot while being held hostage in an Evanston IHOP during
The gunman,
Jason Nightengale, randomly killed three people in Chicago before going to Evanston, where he shot Torres.
Witnesses describe chaos during shooting rampage between Chicago, Evanston that killed at least 3 Jesse Kirsch, Alexis McAdams
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Seven people have been shot and at least three of the victims killed after a shooting rampage that stretched from Chicago s South Side to Evanston Saturday, according to Chicago police.
As law enforcement officials gather more information about the deadly crime spree, they re providing more details. When you hear this whole story, it seems that you have a crystal ball of what he s doing next, and we all know we don t have a crystal ball where he goes next nor do we have this on any of our POD cameras, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said Saturday night. We are responding to the scene as these crimes are happening, getting information, and again, he s going to the next while we are trying to keep up with what s happened previously. By the time we put it all together, he s here in Evanston.