Patricia Deates went to the hospital Tuesday preparing to say a “final goodbye” to her 13-year-old son, one of the youngest victims of a violent weekend in Chicago
13-Year-Old Dies Following Chicago’s Most Violent Weekend in 2021
CHICAGO Eric Crawford, a 13-year-old boy shot in the head and neck near his home, died Tuesday within hours of being pulled off life support at a Chicago hospital. He is one of six children shot during Chicago’s most violent weekend in 2021, according to the Chicago Police Department.
Crawford was riding a bike in the McKinley Park neighborhood when someone from an unknown vehicle fired at him early Sunday morning, according to the Chicago Police Department. In total, 8 people were killed and 44 injured over the weekend, largely due to gunshots.
Wednesday afternoon Cardinal news and notes
Share this story A fourth-place finish at the Noblesville Regional has the Louisville men’s golf team moving on to the NCAA Championships for the fifth time in program history. The U of L baseball team got back on track Tuesday night with an 8-6 win over USC Upstate. Eric Crawford shares his thoughts on Louisville basketball’s latest extortion mess.
The last thing I’m going to do is gloss over violations for a program that ought to have zero, given the NCAA hammer it is living under. But this kind of Level II or III thing is not the kind of thing that strikes fear into anyone.
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May 18, 2021
Patricia Deates went to the hospital Tuesday preparing to say a “final goodbye” to her 13-year-old son, one of the youngest victims of a violent weekend in Chicago. Eric Crawford, about to enter eighth grade, has been on life-support at Stroger Hospital since he was wounded while riding a bike four blocks from his home in McKinley Park Sunday morning. “Eric is a wonderful, bright child,” Deates said in a brief phone interview from her son’s hospital bed. He loved to ride his bike and play video games, she said.
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