The teen had plans, to graduate from St John's University in New York City and become a writer, to channel what he'd learned about poetry and struggle into words that might make something shift. "You do not want to hear a mother's cry for her son," a neighbour, who would only identify herself as Brenda, told the Chicago Tribune. The two young men had no criminal records or personal histories of gang involvement, a police spokesman told the Chicago Tribune, but the shooting could still be gang-related. "I got the phone call, and my heart just fell to my stomach," Smith told the Tribune. In the same weekend Arshell died, nine people were killed and 31 more wounded in shootings across Chicago.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 16, 2016 20:03 UTC