Rep. Davis (D-IL) has been the Congressman for the Chicago area since 1997.
Via Chicago Tribune:
The 15-year-old grandson of U.S. Rep. Danny Davis was fatally shot in a home invasion Friday evening on the South Side, according to Davis and police.
“It was unbelievable, unbelievable,’’ said Davis, who was reached by phone on his way to the police station to be briefed on the incident.
His grandson, Jovan Wilson, was at his home in Englewood with an uncle, his 16-year-old sister, 14-year-old brother and 8-year-old brother when two teenage assailants broke into the home and began arguing with Jovan, police and Davis said. The teen’s mother had left the home to pick up food.
At some point during the argument, one of the assailants, a 15-year-old boy, pulled out a gun and shot Jovan in the head.
He was dead on the scene in the 5600 block of South Princeton Avenue, said Officer Michelle Tannehill, a Chicago police spokeswoman.
A 17-year-old girl was the other assailant who was with the 15-year-old boy, Davis said.
The offenders were still at-large as of Saturday, said Anthony Guglielmi, spokesman for the Chicago Police Department. He said the incident was not random, and there was a history between the offenders and the teen.
Jovan, a sophomore at Perspectives Charter High School, loved sports and rap music, Davis said.
“He was a typical 15-year-old,’’ the congressman said. “He liked basketball. If you listened to him he was a basketball star, but he liked basketball and music. All those kinds of things. He was an avid sports fan, he knew all about, you know, the stats of different players.”