A 15-year-old standout football player was among the victims of Chicago’s gun violence just three weeks into the new school year.
No one was in custody Saturday morning. Police were reviewing surveillance video from the school grounds.“They took out his right kidney – they took out his large intestines …they took his colon…and also his liver damaged,” said his grandmother Rhonda Matthews."It is heartbreaking, but I am going to be strong in the name of Jesus. The lord going to help us get through this. I don’t understand why people out here shooting innocent kids at a football game, that is ridiculous.
Ferguson was one of several children shot in Chicago over Labor Day weekend -the youngest victim just 6 years old. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, 12 children die from gun violence in America each day and another 32 are shot and injured. A varsity football player at Percy Julian High School, football has been Ferguson's focus, but now he's forced to shift that to healing.
“He motivates, we never have a problem with him, he is a good,” his coach Clifton Cooper told NBC Chicago. “It is a shame something like this had to happen to a kid like himself.”“He cannot attend school – he cannot play football …maybe next year,” she said.
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