Good afternoon, Chicago.
Eric Billops was standing at a bus stop yesterday afternoon as Hyde Park Academy was letting out for the day when witnesses told police another person in a school uniform came up to him, took a gun out of a book bag and started to fire.
Billops, 16, was shot multiple times and was pronounced dead soon afterward, according to a police report obtained by the Tribune. A 16-year-old girl was shot in the calf, per the report.
Grand Crossing (3rd) District police and Wentworth Area detectives later learned that Billops and the possible suspect, another Hyde Park Academy student, had been planning to fight after school, the report stated. That student had been let out of school early and returned to the area around dismissal, according to the report.
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