CHICAGO (CBS) — A man was convicted Thursday evening of six counts of murder in a 2018 shooting in Rogers Park that killed a Northwestern University doctoral student who had just moved to Chicago at the time.
A jury convicted Diante speed in the murder of a 25-year-old Shane Colombo.
Colombo was shot on Sunday, September 2, 2018 around 8:30 PM while waiting for a bus on Clark Street near Howard Street. He was shot in the chest, lower back and wrist and was pronounced dead at Ascension St. Francis Hospital in Evanston.
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Colombo had left his house to run an errand and was caught in a crossfire between two other men. Police said he was not the intended target of the shooting.
At the time, Colombo had only lived in Chicago for six hours after moving from California.
Colombo had come to Northwestern with impressive results in the field of psychology studies.
Speed ​​was arrested in August 2019 after police said he shot a gun multiple times during the incident.
