NEPHEW OF HARVEY POLICE SPOKESMAN FATALLY SHOT
The nephew of a spokesman for multiple suburban police departments was killed in a shooting that also wounded his girlfriend in front of their newborn child Tuesday in south suburban Markham.
Joshua Wright, 18, was gunned down in a parked car with his family, according to a statement from his uncle Sean Howard, a spokesman for Harvey police and other suburban police departments. Wright had just gotten out of work, and they were waiting for a friend to leave their house in the 16200 block of Winchester Avenue.
As they waited, an SUV pulled up alongside and someone inside fired at least 13 bullets, according to Howard.
Wright was shot in the head and pronounced dead at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, Howard said. His girlfriend was shot in the arm and treated at a hospital. The baby was uninjured.
“I’ve been a police spokesman for over 16 years, but today was a reality check for me and my family,” Howard said in the statement. “Today I became the victim that I’ve always had to describe in my job as police spokesman. Gun violence has no limits.”
Wright graduated from Rich Central High School in Olympia Fields, and “was a great basketball player, but moreover an outstanding father to his newborn son,” Howard said.
Markham police did not respond to multiple requests for comment.