Mar 16, 2009 5:37 am US/Central
Furious Parents Rally After Teenage Boy's Murder
Gregory Robinson Was Shot And Killed On Friday
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
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Gregory Robinson, 14, of Hazel Crest, was fatally shot Friday while riding with his cousins in a car in the Morgan Park neighborhood.
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Parents fed up with violence will take a stand on Monday, three days afterÂ
a 14-year-old boy died in a hail of bullets while riding in the Morgan Park neighborhood with his family.
As CBS 2's Joanie Lum reports, the group, Mothers Opposed to Violence Everywhere, plans to deliver a letter to Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Ron Huberman on the city's West Side Monday morning.
The group believes the lack of after school programs is partly to blame for a recent wave of gun violence that has killed or wounded teens in Chicago.
Meanwhile, grief counselors will be on hand at Monday morning as Simeon Career Academy, 8235 S. Vincennes Ave. A student at the school, 14-year-old freshman Gregory Robinson, was shot and killed on Friday.
Robinson was riding in the back seat of a car around 110th and Aberdeen streets at the time of the shooting. His cousin, Brittani Orange, was driving the car, and her brother, Brandon Orange, was in the passenger seat. Gregory was sitting in the back with two small children. Brittani was about to make a U-turn so they could park, when a storm of shots rang out.
"I jumped on top of my sister so she wouldn't get hit. And then it was two babies in the back seat. And my little cousin seeing that it was the little babies, so he just jumped on top of the babies. And when he jumped on top of the babies, that's when he got hit," Brandon Orange said.
Robinson's cousins credit him with saving the babies' lives. But a promising future and dreams of being a basketball star was snuffed out.
Robinson's family says although he lived in Hazel Crest, he wanted to go to Simeon for the athletic program and to follow in his older cousin's footsteps. Robinson and his cousins were returning to his aunt's house from a Simeon basketball game at the time of the shooting.
Robinson's family is offering a $2,000 reward for anyone who can provide information that leads to an arrest.
On Sunday, dozens of volunteers from the Roseland CeaseFire anti-violence outreach group joined with Chicago Police for a rally near the scene. They walked the neighborhood to stir neighbors to speak up.
"Somebody needs to step up and take responsibility for what they did," said Robinson's aunt, Rhonda Orange. "He was an innocent kid."
"We really need the community to come forward on this, if they have any leads; any information that they want to share with us, we really could use their help," said Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis.
Brittani Orange says she thinks the person who pulled the trigger was hiding on a bike trail just steps from the car when they opened fire.
Police say the shooting was gang-related, but the boy was not the intended target.
CBS 2's Joanie Lum and the STNG Wire contributed to this report.
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