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In this image taken from police video played during the trial of former Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, in Minneapolis, Potters, right, is seen after the traffic stop of Daunte Wright on the April 11, 2021. Potter, who is white, is charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting of Wright, a Black motorist, in the suburb of Brooklyn Center. Potter has said she meant to use her Taser – but grabbed her handgun instead – after Wright tried to drive away as officers were trying to arrest him. | AP
“I grabbed whatever was in the car. I don’t remember if it was a sweater or a towel or something … and put it on his chest like you see in movies and TV shows,” Alayna Albrecht-Payton testified. “I didn’t know what to do.”
MINNEAPOLIS — The woman who was riding with Daunte Wright when he was pulled over by police testified Thursday about the chaos right after an officer shot him, saying she screamed at Wright but that he “wasn’t answering me and he was just gasping.”
“I grabbed whatever was in the car. I don’t remember if it was a sweater or a towel or something … and put it on his chest like you see in movies and TV shows,” Alayna Albrecht-Payton testified. “I didn’t know what to do.”
Albrecht-Payton answered Wright’s cellphone as his mother tried frantically to reestablish contact that she had with him right before the shooting. Wright’s mother, Katie Bryant, testified tearfully on Wednesday that she first saw her son’s apparently lifeless body via that video call.
“I pointed the camera on him,” Albrecht-Payton said. “And I’m so sorry I did that.”
Former Officer Kim Potter, 49, is charged with first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in Wright’s April 11 death in Brooklyn Center. The white former officer — she resigned two days after the shooting — has said she meant to use her Taser on the 20-year-old Wright, who was Black, after he attempted to drive away from a traffic stop as officers tried to arrest him, but that she grabbed her handgun instead.
Albrecht-Payton took the stand on the second day of testimony in Potter’s trial, after opening statements in which prosecutors portrayed her as a veteran cop who had been repeatedly trained in Taser use, with warnings about avoiding such deadly mix-ups.
The defense asserted that Wright had simply made an error. Attorney Paul Engh also said Wright might have averted tragedy if he had surrendered to Potter and the other officers at the scene.
Video dominated the first day of testimony, with officers’ body cameras and the police car’s dashcam that showed Potter threatening to shoot Wright with a Taser as another officer tried to pull him out of his car. After she shot him with her gun, Potter can be heard saying, “I just shot him. … I grabbed the wrong (expletive) gun!”
A car crash can be heard after Wright drives away and Potter — who Engh said had never previously fired her gun or Taser while on duty during her 26-year career — can be heard wailing uncontrollably afterward, “Oh my God. Oh my God!” before she crumples over.
A mostly white jury was seated last week in the case, which sparked angry demonstrations outside the Brooklyn Center police station last spring just as former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was on trial 10 miles away for killing George Floyd.
Engh told jurors that Potter made a mistake when she grabbed the wrong weapon and shot Wright after he attempted to drive away while she and the other officers were trying to arrest him.
The charges don’t require proof that Potter intended to kill Wright, and prosecutor Erin Eldridge noted as much for the jury.
But Engh also told jurors that Potter would have been justified in shooting Wright even if she had consciously chosen to draw her handgun, arguing that deadly force was warranted to protect her fellow officers. He said police had reason to believe that Wright might have a gun and that one of the officers had reached inside Wright’s car and was at risk of being dragged if Wright drove away.
In her opening statement, Eldridge told jurors that Potter violated her extensive training — including on the risks of firing the wrong weapon — and “betrayed a 20-year-old kid.”
“This is exactly what she had been trained for years to prevent,” Eldridge said. “But on April 11, she betrayed her badge and she failed Daunte Wright.”
Potter, who told the court she will testify, was training a new officer when they pulled Wright over for having expired license plate tags and an air freshener hanging from the rearview mirror.
The officer Potter was training that day, Anthony Luckey, testified that during the stop, he smelled marijuana and saw marijuana residue on the car’s console. He also said Wright didn’t have a license and produced an expired proof of insurance that was under another person’s name.
After discovering there was a warrant for Wright’s arrest on a weapons charge and a restraining order against Wright, Luckey said he was going to put Wright in handcuffs and check on the welfare of the woman in the car, and that he asked Wright to get out.
But as Luckey tried to handcuff him, Wright struggled out of the officer’s grip and got back into the car. Luckey said he was reaching into the car when he heard the gunshot, and that he then jumped back and saw Wright put the car in drive before it took off.
Prosecutors say Potter had extensive training, and it included an explicit warning about confusing a handgun with a Taser that also directed officers “to learn the differences between their Taser and firearm to avoid such confusion.”
Eldridge told jurors that officers are required to carry their Taser on their nondominant side and their firearm on their dominant side. Potter carried her gun on her right and her Taser on her left, where it was in a “straight draw” position to be drawn with that left hand.
The most serious charge against Potter requires prosecutors to prove recklessness, while the lesser requires them to prove culpable negligence. Minnesota’s sentencing guidelines call for a prison term of just over seven years on the first-degree manslaughter count and four years on the second-degree one. Prosecutors have said they will seek a longer sentence.
Gov. Tim Walz said Wednesday that he was preparing the National Guard to help with security if needed after the verdict.
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Associated Press writer Tammy Webber contributed from Fenton, Michigan.
Glenbard West’s Braden Huff (34) throws down a dunk against Glenbrook South. | Allen Cunningham/For the Sun-Times
From Derrick Rose vs. Evan Turner to Ayo Dosunmu vs. Talen Horton-Tucker, it is a special occasion when the top two seniors in the state play each other.
What we won’t see Friday night when the state’s top two prospects — Yorkville Christian’s Jaden Schutt and Glenbard West’s Braden Huff — meet is anything that resembles what transpired when the top two prospects squared off 14 years ago. That’s a guarantee.
Back in 2007, Simeon’s Derrick Rose and St. Joseph’s Evan Turner played in front of 7,400 fans at Northwestern. The game was highlighted by one of the most memorable individual showdowns, both on and off the court, in state history. The two stars put on a show and provided news-worthy comments typically provided by NBA rivals.
Behind Rose’s 29 points, seven assists and four steals, Simeon beat St. Joseph 74-66. Turner, who at one point scored 20 straight points for the Chargers, finished with 29 points and 11 rebounds. The two went at each other in what was a true heavyweight high school basketball brawl.
During the heated game, Turner demonstratively let everyone on press row know exactly what he thought of Rose, the top-ranked player in the state.
“Derrick Rose ain’t sh#$@,” Turner barked.
Turner didn’t let up after the game, either, stating in the post-game press conference, “I was better than him. With me guarding him, he didn’t do much. He knows that, and I know that.”
When Rose was told of Turner’s comments, the state’s top-ranked prospect didn’t hold back.
“We both know who is better,” said Rose. “He’s just doing this to get a little bit of publicity. We’ll see who does more at the next level.”
The Schutt-Huff rivalry? Yeah, not so much. There will be no bad-mouthing. The two are friends who stay in contact since playing the past two years on the same Illinois Wolves club basketball team. There is no tension or animosity and it can’t even be called a rivalry.
“It’s definitely a little different playing any AAU teammate — I played against [Glenbrook South’s] Cooper [Noard] this past week, my Wolves teammate — but it’s also a lot of fun,” said Huff. “We are both competitive and expect a battle. It doesn’t matter who I’m playing. I want to play well and do the best I can in every game I play.”
Schutt says the main thing is focusing on and preparing for a Class 1A state championship. And a game like Friday night, facing Huff, the state’s No. 1 team and a Class 4A favorite will certainly help prepare Yorkville Christian. But he does admit “it probably is the biggest game” in the short history of the program.
“I go against him in practice with the Wolves and we’ve faced each other in the summer, so I don’t think it will be that odd playing him,” said Schutt of his matchup with Huff and Caden Pierce, another Glenbard West player and Illinois Wolves teammate. “It’s a game we have really looked forward to.”
But when top prospects in the same class meet it’s always interesting. And when you consider one is going to Duke (Schutt) and one is headed to Gonzaga (Huff), it becomes even more intriguing.
Huff, however, couldn’t offer up a single nugget of bulletin board material. The 6-10 senior was locked in on the team’s approach and ongoing success.
“That’s why I like our high school team so much, because we are all so unselfish and we just aren’t into the individual stuff,” said Huff. “The main focus is getting the next win.”
Here is a look back at a few other individual showdowns featuring the top two prospects in the class over the past 25 years:
A matchup the City/Suburban Hoops Report at the time billed as the “Game of the Decade” lived up to the hype on Valentine’s Day. A pair of future NBA stars went toe-to-toe, back-and-forth, with one clutch basket and big moment after another.
A sold out crowd at Northwestsern’s Welsh-Ryan Arena was treated to an all-timer as Young and Richardson, the No. 1 ranked prospect, beat Fenwick and Maggette, the No. 2 ranked prospect. Both were top 20 national prospects. Richardson put up 28 points and pulled down 19 rebounds in the win. Maggette was magnificent as well with 28 points and 13 rebounds.
Dee vs. Doc. The two best guards and highest ranked players in the Class of 2006 collided in the City-Suburban Showdown at Northwestern.
Julian’s Sean Dockery put up a whopping 37 points in a losing effort as Dee Brown (27 points, eight assists and two steals) and Proviso East prevailed.
This one had everything, including two big men who were both ranked among the top five players in the country in the Class of 2014.
With Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel courtside, a dramatic four overtime city championship game went Curie’s way when Kamar Marshall drained a three in the final seconds for 69-66 win. Alexander finished with 20 points and 12 rebounds; Okafor, who fouled out with two minutes remaining in regulation, finished with 16 points and eight rebounds.
Adding to the drama: Curie was ultimately stripped of its city title due to an academic eligibility scandal.
There was some heat in this one.
First, it’s the Battle of Vincennes. That’s enough right there. But when it came to the two star players, the rivalry was ramped up. The drama centered around club basketball and a recruiting saga from a month earlier where Dosunmu signed with Illinois and Horton-Tucker’s offer was pulled at the last minute.
Simeon and Horton-Tucker beat Morgan Park and Dosunmu 70-57, but it was Messiah Jones who stole the show. While Horton-Tucker scored 17 and Dosunmu 18, Simeon’s Jones went for 23 points, 11 rebounds and put down six dunks.
This was innovative scheduling as the state’s top two prospects met on the opening night of the high school basketball season at Chicago State. The heavy hype fizzled as Miller greatly struggled, shooting 4 of 18 from the field and finished with just nine points. Morgan Park was able to pull off the win, however, beating Young 61-59 as Steward scored 22 points.
The second matchup came in the city quarterfinals. Morgan Park beat Young in another tight one, 78-75, as Miller had a much better game with 22 points. Steward finished with 21 in the loss.
In this Dec. 7, 1941, file photo, part of the hull of the capsized USS Oklahoma is seen at right as the battleship USS West Virginia, center, begins to sink after suffering heavy damage, while the USS Maryland, left, is still afloat in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii. Pearl Harbor survivors and World War II veterans are gathering in Hawaii this week to remember those killed in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack. Those attending will observe a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., the minute the bombing began. The ceremony will mark the 80th anniversary of the attack that launched the U.S. into World War II. (U.S. Navy via AP, File) ORG XMIT: LA902 | U.S. Navy via AP, File
On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese military carried out an attack on Pearl Harbor, an American naval base in Hawaii. This year marks the 80th anniversary, so here’s a look at how Chicagoans honored the 10th anniversary.
As published in the Chicago Daily News, sister publication of the Chicago Sun-Times:
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese military attack the naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii, thus bringing the United States officially into the Second World War. Over 3,000 people died in the attack.
On the 10th anniversary in 1951, both the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News marked the occasion in vastly different ways. Both papers ran prominent essays focusing on the state of the country in 1941 versus 1952, but from there, their coverage diverged.
The Sun-Times sent staff correspondent Oscar Katov to Hawaii to file a report, and he found a story that had yet to be told — the battle of Niihau.
Niihau sits about 110 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor, Katov wrote in his Dec. 7, 1951 report, and was owned at the time by Aylmer Robinson. About 200 native Hawaiians lived on the remote island and worked for him.
At about 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, a Japanese plane crash-landed on Niihau. A resident named Hawila Kaleohano “ran to the wreckage and disarmed the pilot as he tried to draw a pistol,” Katov reported. Residents questioned the pilot about an attack and called the island’s two Japanese residents, a caretaker named Harada and a beekeeper named Sintani, to interpret, but the pilot denied any attack.
The islanders decided to hold the pilot captive and take his papers until Robinson arrived with weekly supplies the following day, but something delayed him, Katov said. On Friday with still no news, Harada helped the pilot escape.
The next morning, the pilot and Harada captured Beni Kanahele, who had helped steal Japanese ammunition the night before, and his wife, the reporter wrote. “Harada threatened to kill Beni’s wife. Enraged, Beni lunged for the pilot. The pilot fired three shots. Slugs ripped into Beni’s stomach, groin and leg, but Beni kept charging. He grabbed the pilot by the neck and leg — like he picked up sheep — and dashed his head against a rock.”
Harada then shot himself, the reporter said. Robinson returned to the island soon after to learn that the battle of Niihau had already ended. Kanahele survived and received “a personal decoration from President Roosevelt for his heroism.”
Over at the Chicago Daily News, the coverage of the anniversary focused on the ceremony in Hawaii and stories from survivors (none of them from Chicago). The paper ran copy from an Associated Press reporter and included before-and-after photos of the harbor. Several days later, Chicagoan Jennie Posner wrote to the paper to share her recollections of that day.
“Pearl Harbor — a day I will never forget. We had tickets for the travel talk given by the Daily News at the Palmer House. A clear cold day, I and my daughters were looking forward to a very beautiful afternoon.
“The ballroom was packed. Came 2:30 p.m. but no sign of the curtain going up. A short time later the room was dimmed, on the screen the words were flashed — we were bombed at Pearl Harbor by the [Japanese].
“Where there had been laughter, not a sound was heard for a few seconds: then like a sudden storm a great sob was heard throughout the room — a sound I can still hear.”
A board where community members can share words of support alongside the memorial outside of Oxford High School on December 7, 2021 in Oxford, Michigan. One week ago, four students were killed and seven others injured on November 30, when student Ethan Crumbley allegedly opened fire with a pistol at the school. Ethan Crumbley, 15, has been charged along with his parents James and Jennifer Crumbley who have been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter | Getty
The lawsuits were filed in federal court in Detroit by Jeffrey and Brandi Franz on behalf of their daughters, Riley, a 17-year-old senior who was shot in the neck Nov. 30, and her sister Bella, a 14-year-old ninth grader who was next to her at the time, attorney Geoffrey Fieger said.
Two lawsuits seeking $100 million each have been filed against a Michigan school district, its superintendent and others after four students were fatally shot and others wounded at Oxford High School, a lawyer announced Thursday.
The lawsuits were filed in federal court in Detroit by Jeffrey and Brandi Franz on behalf of their daughters, Riley, a 17-year-old senior who was shot in the neck Nov. 30, and her sister Bella, a 14-year-old ninth grader who was next to her at the time, attorney Geoffrey Fieger said.
They’re the first known civil suits filed in connection with the shooting. Named in the suits are the Oxford Community School District, Superintendent Tim Throne, Oxford High School principal Steven Wolf, the dean of students, two counselors, two teachers and a staff member.
The Associated Press sent an email Thursday seeking comment from the district.
Ten students and a teacher were shot at the school in Oxford Township, roughly 30 miles north of Detroit.
Ethan Crumbley, a 15-year-old sophomore at the school, was arrested at the school and has been charged as an adult with murder, terrorism and other crimes. His parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, later were charged with involuntary manslaughter and arrested.
Personal-injury lawyers have expressed doubt that the school district could be successfully sued for letting Crumbley stay in school. That’s because Michigan law sets a high bar to wring liability out of public schools and other arms of government.
“You have to show that the administration or faculty members were grossly negligent, meaning they had a reckless disregard for whether an injury was likely to take place,” said attorney A. Vince Colella.
The gun used in the shooting was bought days before by James Crumbley and their son had full access to it, prosecutors said.
The morning before the shooting school officials met with Ethan Crumbley and his parents after the school after a teacher found a drawing of a gun, a bullet and a person who appeared to have been shot, along with messages stating “My life is useless” and “The world is dead.”
The Crumbleys “flatly refused” to take their son home, Throne has said.
The Franz family lives in Leonard, just northwest of Oxford. One of the lawsuits criticized school officials for not expelling, disciplining or searching Crumbley prior to the shooting which allowed Crumbley to return to his classroom “and carry out his murderous rampage.”
The lawsuit also said the school district “knew or should have known that the policies, procedures, training supervision and discipline” staff members named in the suit “were inadequate for the tasks that each defendant was required to perform.”
On Wednesday, a statement posted on the district’s website by Throne said that after all the facts have been obtained and released through the course of the prosecution, he will recommend to the Oxford Board of Education that the district initiate a review of its entire system “as other communities have done when facing similar experiences.”
“Our goal with all of this is to bring together all of the facts of what happened before, during and after this horrific incident,” he wrote. “We are committed to doing this in a way that allows our community to move forward and does not re-traumatize our community members, who are reeling and suffering from this horrible event.”
The criminal cases against Ethan Crumbley and his parents are being overseen by the Oakland County prosecutor’s office, and Michigan’s attorney general said Tuesday her office will review events that occurred before the mass shooting, despite the district’s rejection of her offer to be its third-party investigator.
The district’s lawyer told the attorney general’s office Monday it was fully cooperating with local law enforcement.
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Associated Press reporter David Eggert in Lansing, Michigan, contributed to this story.
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Star quarterback LeMarcus James (Stephan James) boycotts a crucial college football game in “National Championship.” | STXfilms
He’s fighting for compensation for other student athletes, but other meandering, arbitrary plotlines keep slowing the story’s momentum.
Perhaps my favorite blatant product-placement moment of the 2021 movie year comes in the well-intentioned but uneven college sports drama “National Champions,” when a group of football players scarf down a half-dozen pizza pies (the labels on the boxes prominently displayed) — a scene which is followed by an authority figure bursting into the now-vacated room and wondering out loud:
“WHO BOUGHT ALL THIS PIZZA HUT!”
That’s just ahead of my second–favorite blatant product-placement moment of the 2021 movie season, which also occurs in “National Champions,” when a player sits on his hotel room bed and we see a pile of popular candy bars scattered around him and he says:
“Thank God Snickers sponsored this game and not an insurance company.”
Shew. Thank God.
Based on the stage play of the same name and directed by stuntman turned filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh (who helmed last year’s terrific thriller “Greenland”), this is a curiously disjointed film that often loses momentum as we follow some meandering storylines and developments that feel arbitrary and, in some cases, superfluous. There’s no disputing the talent of the cast, starting with Stephan James (who played Jesse Owens in 2016’s “Race”) as LeMarcus James, the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback and soon to be No. 1 pick in the NFL draft, who just days before the national championship matchup in New Orleans announces he’s boycotting the game to fight for all college athletes, from the biggest football and basketball stars to the last men and women on the swimming and lacrosse and volleyball teams, to be compensated fairly as paid employees of the multi-billion dollar “amateur athletics” complex rather than be classified as student-athletes.
Along with his best friend and teammate Emmett Sunday (Alexander Ludwig), LeMarcus hides in plain sight and takes his case to social media, even as his head coach (J.K. Simmons) and various conference and college football executives (played by Uzo Aduba, Jeffrey Donovan and David Koechner, among others) scramble to get this thing under control before more players join the boycott and the game is canceled. Nearly every scene in “National Champions” features a welcome and familiar face: Hey, there’s Lil Rel Howery as an assistant coach! Isn’t that Timothy Olyphant hidden behind that beard as a college professor? What is happening now with Kristin Chenoweth as the head coach’s wife, who seems to be in a movie of her own as she indulges in an affair that everybody seems to know about? And what in the world is Tim Blake Nelson up to as a seedy school booster with some nefarious intentions?
They’re all veering this way and that, and just about every character gets a Big Speech Moment. (LeMarcus has three or four, and his best buddy Emmett actually recites Samuel L. Jackson’s entire “Ezekiel 25:17” soliloquy, for absolutely no good reason.) As we count down to the big game and LeMarcus must decide what’s best not only for him but for the good of all amateur athletes, “National Champions” continually invokes a heavy-handed, angelic choir score more befitting an apocalyptic sci-fi film than a sports drama. The ruling on the field is this is an incomplete pass.
Nine people were shot, one fatally, December 8, 2021 in Chicago. | Sun-Times file photo
The fatal attack occurred in the 4300 block of West Flournoy Street in Lawndale.
One person was killed and eight others were wounded in shootings across Chicago Wednesday.
A 39-year-old man was shot to death around 8:30 p.m. in Lawndale on the West Side. He was walking on the sidewalk in the 4300 block of West Flournoy Street when someone fired at him, police said. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital. His name hasn’t been released.
A 61-year-old woman was shot while sitting inside a home in Rogers Park around 3 p.m. The woman was was shot in the arm and thigh in the 1300 block of West Pratt Boulevard, police said. She was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston in good condition, according to police.
A 22-year-old woman was robbed and shot around 9:50 p.m. in the Logan Square neighborhood. She was walking to her car behind a store in the 2700 block of North Milwaukee when someone fired a shot and took her phone, police said. She was hit in the arm and was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center in fair condition, police said.
Late Wednesday, a 27-year-old man was critically wounded in a shooting in Chatham on the South Side. The man was standing in an alley in the 8000 block of South Drexel Avenue when someone fired shots about 11:10 p.m., police said. He was struck in both legs and was taken in critical condition to the University of Chicago Medical Center, police said.
At least five others were wounded in citywide gun violence Wednesday.
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The chief of detectives says police are looking at other seemingly random shootings to see if they are linked to the suspect.
Chicago police say they don’t know why a gunman shot and killed a 71-year-old man as he walked to get a newspaper in Chinatown earlier this week.
Alphonso Joyner, 23, refused to talk to investigators when he was arrested moments after Woom Sing Tse was gunned down around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 200 block of West 23rd Place, a fews blocks from Tse’s home, according to police.
Joyner has been charged with first-degree murder. He has a record of gun charges, and Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan said police are looking at other apparently random shootings to see if they’re linked to Joyner.
“Detectives from the North Side have already reached out to these detectives, and we’re comparing everything we possibly can from those cases to this case or any other case that may appear to a random act of violence,” Deenihan said at a news conference Wednesday night announcing the charges.
“We don’t know at this time but we’re definitely investigating that based on what happened here,” he said.
In Tuesday’s attack, Tse can be seen on surveillance video walking down 23rd Place, dressed in a hooded coat. A car pulls up and the driver fires shots at Tse, then gets out of the car, walks up to the curb and fires again.
Deenihan said the first shots from the car did not hit Tse. “You can see how startled he is,” he said of Tse.
Joyner fired a second volley of shots while still in the car, and Tse was struck this time and fell, Deenihan said. Joyner then got out and stood over Tse and fired more rounds,
Joyner got back into his car and drove away, but police were able to track him down with quick help from the community, police said.
The commander of the police district said the Chinatown Community Watch called him on his cellphone within minutes. Cmdr. Don Jerome said information from the scene was relayed to the department’s strategic support center and Joyner was soon spotted driving on the Kennedy Expressway.
He was pulled over at Jackson Boulevard and arrested. Joyner immediately invoked his right to silence. Police found a gun with an extended magazine in the car gunshot residue on Joyner’s hands, Deenihan said.
Tse’s family said he moved to the Chicago area from China 50 years ago and worked as a cook until he saved enough money to open a restaurant and then another.
“He was a man who came to this country with just a few dollars in his pockets and through hard work and his spirit, achieved the American dream,” Chicago police Supt. David Brown said Wednesday night. “Mr. Tse built a home and provided for his family. He was a father, a husband, a grandfather, a man of the community, a Chicagoan.”
Joyner is expected in court Thursday.
