Overview
- Eric Billups, 16, was shot multiple times at a CTA stop by the South Side YMCA around 3:30 p.m. April 15, and he died minutes later at University of Chicago Medical Center while a 16-year-old girl with him survived a leg wound.
- Chicago police say the case is open with no arrests, and a report obtained by the Tribune says another Hyde Park student was identified as a suspect after witnesses described a planned fight that ended in gunfire.
- Relatives say a school dispute earlier that day, reported as an argument over a vape pen, may have led to the attack.
- A GoFundMe is helping pay for his funeral and a family move, as his mother recalls an AP student already getting college letters and urges an arrest.
- His killing is the third student death tied to Hyde Park Academy since March 21, and no arrests have been made in any of the three cases.