Boy, 17, charged in South Shore shooting that killed security guard after leaving work at WGN-TV

CHICAGO (WLS) — A 17-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree homicide after a safety guard for WGN-TV was shot and killed Monday afternoon. She had simply left work and stopped for fuel within the South Shore neighborhood earlier than the capturing.

The boy was arrested simply after 3:25 p.m. Monday within the 6900-block of South East Finish Avenue, Chicago police stated Wednesday.

CPD stated he was recognized as one of many suspects who contributed to 35-year-old Salena Claybourne’s demise.

The boy ran from the scene, however responding officers discovered him and took him into custody.

Claybourne was inside her automobile round 3 p.m. Monday within the 6700-block of South Jeffery Boulevard when a black automobile pulled up and somebody inside opened fireplace, Chicago police stated.

Her household stated she was in uniform on the time of the capturing, and so they imagine she might have been the goal of an tried carjacking. They stated she was simply blocks from house on the time of the capturing.

Claybourne, 35, was struck in her shoulder and face and brought to the College of Chicago Medical Middle, the place she was pronounced useless, police stated.

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Claybourne’s household in Alsip stated they’ve tried for years to get her to go away the town due to the violence, and she or he was truly planning to maneuver to a different neighborhood on the finish of March.

Her household is devastated by their loss and unable to make sense of how and why she died.

“My coronary heart is breaking so. I do not understand how I will get via. I do not,” her mom Donna Marie Claybourne stated.

“All my favourite issues, all issues me and my mother had in frequent will now truly make me cry. They used to make me snigger,” her daughter Saiaan Claybourne stated.

At the least two individuals of curiosity have been being questioned, a police spokeswoman stated Tuesday afternoon.

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Claybourne labored for Allied Common Safety and was posted at WGN-TV Studios, in accordance with the station.

The station launched a press release saying, “Salena was very pleasant, considerate, hardworking and a member of the WGN household. Such a tragic loss; she can be significantly missed. Our ideas are together with her household at this troublesome time.”

Claybourne had simply turned 35 final week and was the youngest of six siblings. She leaves behind two teenage daughters.

“It despatched a shockwave via our entire household. There is no phrases or something that anyone can say to console us proper now as a result of a chunk of us is gone,” her sister Alexsia Claybourne stated.

South Shore has had 16 shootings to this point this 12 months via Saturday, in accordance with police statistics. That is about 35% fewer than the identical time final 12 months, when there have been 21 shootings, however nonetheless greater than the 11 shootings reported in 2020.

{The teenager} is due in court docket Wednesday on the homicide cost.

The Solar-Instances Media Wire contributed to this report

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