July 28, 2014
By Hal Dardick
Clout Street
By Hal Dardick
Clout Street
City Hall (click here) would pay out $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the mother of a high school basketball player shot by police four years ago, under a proposal to be considered this week by the Chicago City Council.
Corey Harris Jr. was 17 in September 2009, when he died of a gunshot wound to the back following a short police chase. Harris, the father of an infant daughter, played basketball at Dyett High School, where he was a junior.
He was shot by an off-duty officer near 69th Street and Eberhart Avenue in the Park Manor neighborhood in the wake of a shooting incident about a block and a half away. Police at the time said Harris was seen firing a gun before the chase started.
But according to the family’s lawsuit, Harris was with other students near Dyett when Officer Darren Wright “wildly fired a series of shots at the teenagers.” Harris was unarmed and posed no threat to the officer when he was shot, according to the suit....
