Devon Butler, a linebacker for Northern Illinois University who was wounded in a drive-by shooting on April 5, announced during a press conference in DeKalb on Friday that will not be playing in 2011. Butler was released from a Rockford-area hospital last Tuesday, but he has a long recovery in front of him, having suffered from a collapsed lung from the shooting. He explained during the press conference that he will start physical therapy in six months, and in the meantime, he will be concentrating on classwork and regaining his strength. "I'm going to take my redshirt year," said Butler, a junior from Pembroke Pines, Florida, via the Chicago Sun-Times. "The doctors have laid out what I need to do to get back to the classroom and also the football team."
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A 79-year old man was critically hurt when an SUV hit the man just after midnight this morning in the Little Village neighborhood. The incident occurred at 4138 W. 31st St. After hitting the man, the SUV fled the scene only to crash into a traffic-control box. The driver then fled the scene on foot and has not yet been apprehended. The victim is in critical condition at Mount Sinai Hospital. [Trib, S-T]
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NIU Football Player Hurt In Drive-By Shooting Out For Season
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- Police have yet to make any arrests in connection with Friday night's drive-by shooting at Dunbar High.
- To Paddle or Not To Paddle. That is the question according to this Trib examination of the still-surviving art of the school-time swat.
- Two snowmobilers died last night after their snowmobiles fell through the ice at Sylvan Lake in northern Indiana.
Morning Crime Round-Up
Mobster Movie Set Scene of Mobster Action
Five public enemies have been nabbed and one charged with unlawful use of a weapon in association with a drive-by shooting that took place near the set of Johnny Depp’s “Public Enemies” movie. The incident occurred about 12:30 a.m. Friday in the 1600 Block of South Blue Island in the Pilsen Neighborhood.
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