'He was killed within four hours of being in the city,' mother says of PhD student fatally shot by stray bullet in Chicago

By BILL HUTCHINSON Sep 5, 2018, 10:35 AM ET

A Northwestern University doctoral student who beat cancer was one of six people shot to death over the weekend in Chicago, gunned down by a stray bullet when he walked into the middle of a gunfight just four hours after arriving in the city to start school, police and his mother said.

Shane Colombo, 25, was killed Sunday in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago while on an errand to buy clothes hangers, said his mother, Tonya Colombo of Menifee, California. ... "He was a bright, beautiful, amazing son. And he was so loving," the tearful mother told ABC News in a phone interview minutes after identifying her son Tuesday afternoon at the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office in Chicago.

Shane Colombo was fatally shot about 8:25 p.m. on Sunday, when he got caught in the crossfire of a gun battle between two people, according to officials at the Chicago Police Department. He was shot once in the abdomen and taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, where he died, police said.

Police were working Tuesday to identify suspects in Colombo's killing, but no arrests were made.
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09/02/2018, 10:05pm

Northwestern doctoral student from California killed in Rogers Park crossfire

By Luke Wilusz @lukewilusz | [link:lwilusz@suntimes.com|email]
By Tom Schuba [link:tschuba@suntimes.com|email]

A promising Northwestern University graduate student left his new condo in north suburban Evanston Sunday evening to go shopping and grab a drink, but his ordinary night would soon take a tragic turn.

About 8:25 p.m., 25-year-old Shane Colombo was walking in the 7600 block of North Clark Street in the North Side Rogers Park neighborhood when two other people started shooting at each other, according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Colombo was caught in the crossfire, and one of the stray bullets pierced his abdomen.

He was rushed to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead less than an hour later, authorities said. Area North detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.

Colombo, who was from Sun City, California, had recently moved to Evanston to join Northwestern University’s Ph.D. program as an incoming student this fall, according to a statement from university officials.
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