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Grandfather dies after West Rogers Park shooting during attempted robbery: Chicago police
CHICAGO (WLS) — A retailer clerk was shot and later died on account of an tried theft at a West Rogers Park liquor retailer Monday night time, Chicago police mentioned.
A 66-year-old man was working behind the counter of J and Okay Meals and Liquor about 9:50 p.m. within the 6300-block of North Western Avenue when somebody walked in with a handgun and demanded cash, CPD mentioned.
That particular person then shot the clerk within the chest, police mentioned.
CPD mentioned the sufferer was in a position to return hearth, however the gunman was not hit.
The suspect rode a bicycle to the shop however left on foot, police mentioned.
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Authorities are calling this an tried theft as a result of finally nothing was taken.
Chicago hearth crews took the clerk to St. Francis hospital in vital situation, however police mentioned he later died.
The Cook dinner County Medical Examiner’s Workplace recognized him as Salim Khamo. He died simply earlier than 11:45 p.m., the workplace mentioned.
Now, his household in Des Plaines is grieving, however they’re additionally in search of justice.
Khamo lived for his household; his son mentioned nothing gave him extra happiness.
“He simply cared a lot about us. I do know he did,” Siefar Khamo mentioned.
His seven grandchildren have been his satisfaction and pleasure.
He was fatally shot in his personal retailer, simply two months earlier than he was set to retire.
“He wished to retire to a farm on the outskirts of Chicago, increase chickens, have his grandkids come. He simply wished to have a spot for his household,” his son mentioned. “We got here from Iraq, you recognize. We ran as a result of we have been refugees, have been Christian Assyrians from the Center East. And he was only a proud man. He was not gonna let, you recognize, somebody bully him.”
Salim Khamo opened the shop together with his brother again in 2006 after he saved up sufficient cash.
“My dad has completed nothing improper his entire life. He is completed the whole lot proper. He deserves this. He deserves his justice,” his son mentioned. “We simply need him, whoever this man did it, we simply need him to get caught, OK?”
Household mentioned the shop had surveillance video.
However police had not launched any suspect descriptions as of Tuesday morning.
Space Three detectives are investigating.
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CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago hearth officers mentioned two ladies have been discovered lifeless in an Englewood house after a home hearth.
The fireplace broke out Tuesday night at a home within the 7200-block of South Wolcott, Chicago hearth officers mentioned.
The fireplace was struck out at about 9:10 p.m., CFD mentioned.
After the fireplace was out, firefighters discovered two grownup feminine victims lifeless within the wreckage.
It was not instantly clear if the ladies died within the hearth or earlier than the fireplace. No additional particulars have been launched.
The Chicago Hearth Division has not but commented on any potential causes for the fireplace or mentioned in the event that they consider it was suspicious.
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ailing. (WLS) — Three ladies and their households had been good strangers up till the second tragedy introduced them collectively within the aftermath of Highland Park’s July 4th parade.
As Thanksgiving approaches, they’re united in goal and in gratitude for probably the most primary of all issues: life.
“I believed I used to be going to die,” Highland Park capturing survivor Liz Turnipseed mentioned. “That I used to be going to put there and I used to be going to bleed out and I used to be going to die.”
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“I used to be on the parade with my three grownup kids, my son-in-law and my 2-year-old grand child,” mentioned Debra Baum, with the Highland Park Gun Violence Mission. “Our complete household may have been worn out.”
“July third I had 70 folks at my home and the following day our life bought flipped the other way up,” capturing survivor Lindsay Hartman mentioned. “So I simply know for me, I am attempting to take pleasure in it and never spend an excessive amount of time previously.”
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For Lindsay, not spending an excessive amount of time previously means internet hosting Thanksgiving for 30. Liz, who was one of many almost 50 folks injured that day, nonetheless wants a cane to get round, so she’ll be catering the meal and having her complete household fly in. Debra shall be coming along with the identical household she was with on July 4.
“There are numerous households in Highland Park that do not have folks with them this Thanksgiving due to what occurred,” Baum mentioned. “It is a very weighty realization.”
However there’s additionally gratitude for random issues and other people, like for the proper strangers who took in Liz’s 3-year-old daughter for a few hours after she was shot. And the neighbor she’d by no means met earlier than who lent her a step stool for her mattress.
Turning ache into goal is what unites these ladies now as they foyer for an assault weapons ban in Congress. As a result of whereas life for them won’t ever be the identical, it does transfer on.
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WASHINGTON D.C. — The Biden administration is but once more extending the pause on federal scholar mortgage funds, a profit that started in March 2020 to assist individuals who have been struggling financially because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a supply conversant in the plan mentioned.
The Division of Training will announce it’s extending the freeze one other six months with the primary funds due two months after June 30, the supply mentioned, until a Supreme Courtroom resolution on the president’s scholar mortgage aid program comes first.
The administration had beforehand mentioned the latest extension could be the final, and funds have been scheduled to restart in January.
However the administration had additionally meant for its scholar mortgage forgiveness program to start canceling as much as $20,000 in debt for low- and middle-income debtors earlier than January. This system has but to be carried out because it faces a number of authorized challenges.
This story is breaking and can be up to date.
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