Jury convicts man in 2018 slaying of Northwestern PhD student in Rogers Park: ‘The law doesn’t allow a shooter to be a bad shot’

Vicente Colores-Chalmers sat on the floor of the Leighton Criminal Courthouse Thursday afternoon and pulled up a September 2018 video of his fiancee, Shane Colombo, on his phone. Colombo had just walked into a condo the couple had purchased in Evanston for the first time, and sent Colores-Chalmers a video of himself there, laughing and saying hello. About two hours after he sent the video to Colores-Chalmers, Colombo, 25 and an incoming doctoral student at Northwestern University, was shot to death in Rogers Park. Instead of coming to Chicago to celebrate a dissertation defense and graduation, his family returned to […]