Windows Broken In Home Of South Side Aldermanic Candidate

By Anna Deem in News on Jan 1, 2011 9:00PM

Police are still investigating allegations that someone threw fireworks into the home of Rev. Andre Smith, 42, an aldermanic candidate in the 20th Ward on the South Side. Rev. Smith told police that six of the windows at his home in the 6000 block of South Indiana Avenue were shattered last night. "Somebody threw a bomb through my windows and tried to kill me and my kids," said Smith to the Chicago Tribune.

Smith told the Tribune that his wife and children were in the first floor apartment and he was on the second floor of the building when the devices exploded. He also said that police and bomb and arson investigators had returned to his building this morning after they found another device near his wife's vehicle outside the building.

Chicago police News Affair Officer Daniel O'Brien told the Tribune that police were called to Smith's home at 12:20 a.m. this morning. They issued a criminal damage to property report after Smith found that six of his windows in the front of his home were broken. In the February elections, Smith will face Ald. Willie Cochran, who is running for re-election of the 20th Ward, which includes Woodlawn, Washington Park, Englewood, and Back of the Yards.