Jontae Hunt
Age 17
Chicago, Illinois
The Sunday roundup missed his story
On a Saturday night, a boy ventured out onto his block as light rain trickled through the branches of the large, overhanging trees.
Online, the boy was described as “very intelligent, thoughtful” and “beautiful” by his friends. In the newspaper, he would be one of nine names in a Sunday roundup of weekend shootings.
Jontae Hunt, 17, was shot in the hip at around 8:20 p.m. on Feb. 24, 2018, just down the street from his home in the Chatham neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Initially expected to recover, Hunt died at 9:32 p.m.
