Teen Slain Less Than A Year After Brother Died In Shooting
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Two teenagers were killed and a third was critically wounded in a shooting in the Roseland neighborhood Wednesday night. For the mother of one of the victims, it was the second son she has lost to gun violence in less than a year.
Shamari Salter, 19, was sitting in a parked car with two other 19-year-olds around 8 p.m. Wednesday, when another vehicle pulled up alongside them in the 200 block of West 107th Street, and someone in that car opened fire.
Salter was shot in the head, and was pronounced dead at the scene. Terrance Canady, 19, was shot in the head and abdomen, and died at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. A third 19-year-old man was shot in the chest, and was in critical condition at Christ Medical Center.
"I want whoever seen what happened to my child today to turn them in. I just lost my other son not less than a year ago, and they still haven't brought his murderers to justice yet, and I just want them to turn theyselves in," said Salter's mother, Stephanie Franklin.
Franklin said her son had just graduated high school, and was getting ready to go to prom this weekend.
"He just graduated out of high school, so he was still trying to figure out what he wanted to do with his life. They took that from him, just like they took my other son's life away from him. I didn't get kids through grammar school and high school graduation to die on the streets of Chicago like dogs" she said.
Salter's grandmother, Lorraine Franklin Hemphill, said the family also lost a cousin who died in a bus accident.
"This is ridiculous, someone tell who these monsters are," she said. "To shoot someone that cold-blooded, for no reason?"
No one was in custody Thursday morning.
