Two Charged in Student's Death

By Margaret Lyons in News on Mar 31, 2008 4:10PM

Two teenagers have been charged as adults in the weekend killing of 18-year-old Chavez Clarke, who was shot on his way out of Saturday classes at Simeon Career Academy. Samuel Hill, 17 (far left), and Roland Little, 19 (left), were charged with first-degree murder; police say Clarke and Hill, the shooter, had on-going beef. Students from Simeon are planning a rally at the State of Illinois building downtown tomorrow to protest against gun violence.

Clarke is the 20th CPS student to die from gunfire this school year, and CPS CEO Arne Duncan attributes at least some of the violence to gangs.

“These young people doing the shootings — these are basically suicide missions,” Duncan said. “Are the gangs going to be with [the shooters] for the next 80 years in jail? Are the gangs going to be with them when they’re being raped in jail?”

Two other teenagers, a 14-year-old girl on 85th Street and an 18-year-old boy in Englewood , survived shootings this weekend.[S-T, CBS 2]