'I am a living, breathing, walking miracle,' Whitney Young High School Principal Rickey Harris told ABC7.
'I am a living, breathing, walking miracle,' Whitney Young High School Principal Rickey Harris told ABC7.Moments after his car was hit by a hail of gunfire in his Washington Park neighborhood on Friday night, the principal of Whitney Young High School drove directly to a police station.
He says he feels incredibly fortunate to be alive. Dozens of shots from an automatic weapon rained down on Rickey Harris' white car as he drove down Throop from 95th Street. Inside the car, Harris had no idea what was going on until one of the bullets shattered his rear window."While driving, I'm shaking, realizing these were gunshots, multiple gunshots," Harris said. The vehicle's passenger side was left riddled with bullets. One shot went through the front windshield and another through the passenger rear window. Somehow, the shots missed Harris in the driver's seat.Moments after the shooting, security camera video shows the gunman walking across the street. Thirty seconds later, he opens fire again, in the opposite direction, toward a school building. What he may have been aiming at was not immediately clear.Harris has devoted his career to educating young people and improving their lives. He says he cannot imagine any reason why he might have been targeted.His car is likely a complete loss, but he is just grateful to be alive. CPD acknowledged a report of the first shooting would make no mention of the second. They say the incident is still under investigation.
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