Thread: IL-Teen is shot for the 3rd time this year

Teen is shot for the 3rd time this year

By Jeremy Gorner | Tribune reporter
June 19, 2008

A young man was wounded in a drive-by shooting early Wednesday outside his parents' Far South Side home, marking the third time since January that he was shot.

Dominice Hallom, 19, was shot in the buttocks shortly before 2 a.m., his family and Chicago police said. He was treated at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and released.

In January, he was shot in the left calf down the block from his parents' home. He was wounded again in late April down the block, this time in his back and the right calf.

In the latest shooting, Hallom, a former basketball standout at Corliss High School who was profiled in a Chicago Tribune Magazine story Sunday about violence in Roseland, was outside his parents' home when at least one occupant of a car opened fire, police said. Hallom, who was visiting his parents at the time, declined to comment.

According to the Tribune magazine article, some people in the neighborhood imply that the two earlier attempts on Hallom's life are due to gang involvement. But he denies being in a gang.

His mother, Yolanda Hallom, said she heard the gunshots from inside her home, but didn't immediately know her son was shot. Then he ran to their home and pounded on the front door.

"He said, 'Oh my God. I'm shot again,' " Yolanda Hallom said. "He said, 'I'm tired of this.' "

No one was in custody Wednesday and the motive for the shooting was unclear.

"I mean what else? What else could happen?" Yolanda Hallom said, adding that her son told police he didn't know who shot him.

"Roseland is a [dangerous] community. Man, these people are just losing it," said Tracy Hallom, Dominice's father. "The biggest thing is . . . the neighborhood . . . the neighborhood is going to hell, man."

jgorner@tribune.com

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