14-year-old promising athlete shot to death in Evanston
BY MARK KONKOL AND NATASHA KORECKI Staff Reporters September 23, 2012 11:38AM
Dajae Coleman, 14, of Evanston was shot to death Saturday night.
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Updated: September 23, 2012 7:05PM
Dajae Coleman was shot dead in Evanston Saturday night. He was 14.
- The Evanston Township High School freshman that everybody called “Dae Dae” was a youth sports standout, a good student and hard worker who landed his first job at the Evanston community center this summer.
- “He wasn’t one of those guys,” Dajae’s father, Richard Coleman. “He wasn’t someone who you’d think would get killed like this. But really, in the society we’re living in he actually was … one of the good ones, the innocent ones that leave early.”
- On Saturday, Dajae asked his father for permission to go to a party with his pals that night.
“He told me where it was. I said, ‘OK, but don’t be sitting around there on the street. Don’t go wandering. Call me after the party. Don’t walk,’ ” Richard Coleman said. “He said, ‘OK, Dad. I’ll call you.’ … And he never called me back.”
At about 10:30 p.m., Dajae was fatally shot in the 1500 block of Church Street. Friends say he was leaving a party when he was shot. About 45 minutes later, Dajae’s mother, Tiffany Rice, called Coleman and told him to come to the police station.
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