Death By Chicago. Stray gunfire cuts short new life for Northwestern student: 'He was going to have a brilliant career'

The Chicago Tribune reports:

Labor Day weekend was going to be a turning point for Shane Colombo.

The 25-year-old Southern California native had just moved into a condo close to Northwestern University, where he had been accepted into a prestigious psychology doctorate program. After a long-distance relationship with his fiance — Colombo in New York, his future husband in California — the couple were going to have a home together for the first time in three years.



“He got a full ride to the Northwestern Ph.D. program in psychology and biology, and we bought a condo together,” fiance Vincent Perez said.

Colombo was walking toward the Howard "L" station Sunday evening, apparently headed for his new home, when stray gunfire ended the dreams of the couple who had met as fraternity brothers.

Hours after Colombo chatted with Perez on Facetime, a GPS app on Perez's cellphone showed Colombo was at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston. Perez said he grew increasingly worried as he tried for close to an hour to find out whether his fiance had been admitted.

Finally, Perez spoke to an emergency room doctor who gave him the crushing news. "The doctor told me that he had shortly passed not too long ago from gunshot wounds to his abdomen."

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