Boy, 13, shot a block from where he aided 10-year-old girl wounded last fall
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Swaysee Rankin (left) was critically wounded in a shooting Monday, six months after he helped save the life of his close friend La’Mya Sparks (right) in another shooting.
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CHICAGO - When 10-year-old La’Mya Sparks was shot in the back last fall, her 13-year-old friend Swaysee Rankin took off his shirt and applied pressure to her wound, staying with her until paramedics arrived.
Six months later, tragedy struck the friends again. This time it was Swaysee who was shot as he walked with his 14-year-old cousin Monday night in the South Chicago neighborhood, just a block from the earlier shooting.
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April 23, 2021 1:17 PM By DON BABWIN
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Chicago Police Department shows Deandre Binion. Binion, charged with attempted murder in an April 6 road-rage shooting on the city s famed Lake Shore Drive that left a toddler critically injured with a gunshot wound to his head, opened fire at the vehicle even after the other driver told him the boy was inside, a Cook County prosecutor said Friday, April 23.
CHICAGO (AP) A 25-year-old Chicago man charged with attempted murder in a road-rage shooting that left a toddler with a critical head injury opened fire on the vehicle even after the driver of the other vehicle told him the boy was inside, a Cook County prosecutor said Friday.