Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Baseball shooting: Coach released from hospital & suspect found

This is certainly good news!
A community league baseball coach shot in an altercation with a player he had pulled from a game was released from the hospital Monday despite having two bullets still lodged in his body, a league official said.

Glynn Hall, 44, was "in good spirits," said J.C. McDowell, president of a Chicago chapter of the National Adult Baseball Association.

McDowell said Hall apologized to him for the confrontation that led to the shooting and even expressed concern for the suspect, who remained at large Monday evening.

"He asked how the shooter was doing," McDowell said. "He's got no ill-will toward him."
And the young man who took the shots well you see in this excerpt that he hasn't been caught. At this moment that's not so good! Interestingly enough the victim appears to be concerned for this young man. Let's hope this troubled young man is found!

UPDATE 10:54 AM Suspect was found!

CBS2:
A suspect was charged Tuesday morning in the weekend shooting of a coach by one of his own players.

Deangelo Williams, 21, of the 10400 block of South State Street, is charged with attempted first-degree murder in the Sunday shooting.
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Witnesses say the pitcher went to his car, got a gun, then came back to the ball field. He chased Hall, firing into him again and again, witnesses said.
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Williams is set to appear in Bond Court later Wednesday.
Someone still had to throw in Abbott Park's relationship with Harlan Community Academy:
At about 2:20 p.m. Sunday, witnesses said a man shot his baseball coach in the arm and back at a baseball diamond near 95th Street and Michigan Avenue, according to police. The baseball diamond is steps away from Harlan Community Academy.
It's great news that this young man was finally found!

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