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Teen Shot with Mom in Drive-By Gives Kidney to Grandmother
Police search for two brothers in slaying
Updated: Thursday, 29 Sep 2011, 12:37 PM CDT
Published : Thursday, 29 Sep 2011, 8:16 AM CDT
FOX Chicago News and Sun-Times Media Wire
Chicago - The grandmother of a West Side teen killed in a drive-by shooting has received her grandson's kidney while police are seeking two brothers in the incident.
Antonio Johnson, 15, was shot Sunday on the porch of his home in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. He was declared brain dead later that night, but was kept on life support so he could be an organ donor.
According to the Tribune , the teen's kidney was transplanted into his grandmother Wednesday.
She'd been sick for awhile, and the family said that earlier this year the teen offered to donate his kidney.
There have been no arrests in the case, but Thursday, police said they were looking for two brothers in a white Cadillac.
A police News Affairs statement said the two, 26 and 28, are wanted for the murder that happened Sunday in the 700 block of North Springfield Avenue. They may be driving a white 2000 Cadillac STS with Illinois license plates, according to the police.
The Police Department is not identifying them publicly because they have not been arrested or charged with any crime at this time, according to the statement.
The teen was shot in the head and his 37-year-old mother was hit in the arm about 4 p.m. Sunday as they exited a vehicle and walked up to the front porch of their home, police said.
Someone in the Cadillac fired “numerous shots” then fled north on Springfield, police said.
The boy’s mother, who was also taken to Mount Sinai, was listed in good condition, police said.
Detectives do not believe Johnson or his mother, Annette Johnson, were the shooter’s targets, a police source said.
Antonio, a student at Marshall Metro High School, was talking to his mother on the porch as she unloaded some groceries when someone yelled from a passing car and opened fire, his shocked girlfriend Diamond Carr said.
He turned for the door and was hit in the side of the head, she added, describing Antonio as “a happy, funny person.”
Harrison Area detectives are investigating.
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Goodness he was sooooo young! So tragic! But his life will live on in his grandmother! She will always be saddened of his death at such an early age'
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