2 killed, 10 others hurt Monday in Chicago shootings
By Sun-Times Media Wire
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CHICAGO - A dozen people were shot Monday across Chicago including two 17-year-old boys in Tri-Taylor on the Near West Side.
They were on the sidewalk about 9:10 p.m. in the 500 block of South Oakley Boulevard, when someone in a silver-colored BMW opened fire, Chicago police said. One boy was shot in the chest and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His identity has not been released. The other was struck in the shoulder and taken to the same hospital in fair condition.
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A physical education teacher who served for years as the girls cross country coach at Whitney Young Magnet High School has been placed on leave as officials investigate allegations of inappropriate conduct with students some dating back more than a decade that resurfaced last week after a scathing social media post by the teacher’s estranged daughter.
The coach, Robert Geiger, is in his 15th year at Whitney Young, one of Chicago Public Schools’ most competitive selective enrollment high schools on the Near West Side. Several recent graduates accused Geiger of sexually inappropriate comments and behavior toward girls at the school, and described a lack of urgency by Principal Joyce Kenner’s administration in addressing their concerns in the past.
A 27-year-old was killed in a shooting May 9, 2021 in the Near West Side.
A 27-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday morning while refusing to give money to a friend on the Near West Side.
Diqawan Harmon was sitting in a parked vehicle with a male friend about 4:25 a.m. in the 1200 block of West 13th Street when the friend demanded money from him, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Harmon refused and his friend began firing shots, according to police.
He suffered gunshot wounds to his body and was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital by another friend who was also sitting in the vehicle, police said.
In the weekend’s latest fatal shooting, a 27-year-old man was killed Sunday morning on the Near West Side.
The man was sitting in a parked vehicle with a male friend about 4:25 a.m. in the 1200 block of West 13th Street when the friend demanded money from him, police said.
The man refused and his friend began firing shots, according to police.
The 27-year-old suffered multiple gunshot wounds throughout his body and was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital by another friend who was also sitting in the vehicle, police said.
The man was pronounced dead at the hospital, according to police. The medical examiner’s office hasn’t released his identity.