A Chicago community is mourning the death of a popular dance instructor who was fatally shot near his studio last week.
Verndell Smith, 32, was walking out of a Dunkin’ Donuts near his studio in the Park Manor neighborhood last Wednesday morning. Without warning, a silver SUV pulled into a parking lot and gunshots rang out. According to the Chicago Sun Times, Smith was hit in the leg, forehead and torso.
Paramedics arrived at the scene and rushed Smith to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead.
According to Fox 32 Chicago, Smith leaves behind a 10-year-old son. His close-knit family is mourning his loss — and members of his community say that his work impacted the life of countless students.
“He opened up a way to let these boys and girls be comfortable,” fellow dance instructor Devoureaux Wolf tells the Chicago Sun Times. “Some of them needed a way to express themselves and Verndell would get that out of them.”
Smith was partially deaf, and his sister Latoya tells the Sun Times that he “found his voice” through dance.
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no one is shot 3 times in a drive by unintentionally, there is more to this story, obviously.
Wasn’t killed by a white cop, no reason to care obviously.
He was a drug dealer
This is a damn shame. But you’re right, since this didn’t involve a white cop, it will be forgotten. Black people are black people’s worse enemy.