Solider Killed While on Leave
Written by DJ Special Blend from Chicago on July 13, 2009
HARVEY, IL – A young man comes to visit the crib on furlough from the armed services, and gets killed by a stray bullet.
Sanders joined the armed forces to help pay for Tennessee State. Family members feared he would get killed on duty, but are even more disappointed that his life ended while in his home town.
Family members said Simeon Sanders, 21, escaped the violence of his old neighborhood by going to college and then joining the Army but was shot Thursday in the back after buying fries from a taco stand in his hometown.
Sanders still remembered the hood instinct, but tryna avoid the conflict did not work this time.
The two were crossing the street near the Harvey Community Center to avoid a confrontation between two other men when shots rang out. Sanders was shot in the back, and a bullet pierced his heart. He was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. His death was ruled a homicide. Sanders’ cousin was not injured, said Coleman, 41, also with the Army
The joy of being 21 and coming to the crib to visit ended up being a tradegy. Wow.
