{"id":6269,"date":"2011-05-02T16:36:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T20:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6269"},"modified":"2011-05-02T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T20:36:15","slug":"young-soccer-star-killed-after-chicago-bulls-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6269","title":{"rendered":"Young Soccer Star Killed After Chicago Bulls Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bright future of 16-year-old <strong>Kabiru Adewunmi<\/strong> was tragically killed last Tuesday night, as he was walking with friends to a convenience store on Chicago\u2019s South Side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adewunmi<\/strong>, an optimistic, intelligent teen born in Nigeria, had played for the Chicago Fire\u2019s 17-and-under soccer league, where he attracted the attention of Division I scouts from around the country.<\/p>\n<p>But on the night of his death, <strong>Adewunmi<\/strong> was celebrating a different sport. The Chicago Bulls had just eliminated the Indiana Pacers in the NBA playoffs, advancing to the conference semifinals. <strong>Adewunmi<\/strong> and his friends were celebrating that win when they were attacked.<\/p>\n<p>The incident appeared to be gang-related, although <strong>Adewunmi<\/strong> had just moved to the neighborhood and had no connection to gangs.<\/p>\n<p>He was found unresponsive in an alley, and was pronounced dead from multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bright future of 16-year-old Kabiru Adewunmi was tragically killed last Tuesday night, as he was walking with friends to a convenience store on Chicago\u2019s South Side. Adewunmi, an optimistic, intelligent teen born in Nigeria, had played for the Chicago Fire\u2019s 17-and-under soccer league, where he attracted the attention of Division I scouts from around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}