CHICAGO — Panic and fury have taken hold of Philip Rega, the father of a developmentally disabled man wounded in a hail of gunfire in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood on Wednesday while he waited for a school bus.
The 21-year-old son, Jesus, remains in critical condition at Stroger Hospital, but is “responding pretty well,” after being shot in the head and shoulder, his father said.
In the attack, about 6:30 a.m., three assailants yelled gang slogans and fired more than 30 times from across the street where Jesus, who is “nonverbal” and has cognitive delays, was waiting for the bus with his dad and brother, 15, who also is developmentally disabled.
