CHICAGO — A Humboldt Park shooting that left a high school basketball coach paralyzed has resulted in a sentence of 59 years in prison for two men convicted of the crime.
The coach, Shawn Harrington, was shot in January 2014 as he tried to shield his daughter Naja from the bullets fired by Cydryck Davis and Deandre Thompson, according to the Tribune.
The shooting occurred while Harrington was at a stoplight in the 3900 block of West Augusta Boulevard while taking his daughter to school. Harrington is an assistant coach at Marshall Metropolitan High School and was profiled in the documentary "Hoop Dreams" when he was a teen.
In February 2014, Harrington told DNAinfo that he quickly moved to shelter his daughter when he heard the gunshots.
"Nothing else matters. Period," he said.
He theorized the shooters were targeting someone who drove a similar car.
"We were just on our way to school and work," said Harrington, 39. "The guys were looking for a white car."
The players at Marshall, 3250 W. Adams St., helped him recover, he said in 2014.
"The boys don't know how much they did for me. The outpouring has been overwhelming," he said.
A book about Harrington, "All the Dreams We've Dreamed: Hoops, Handguns and Hope on Chicago's West Side," will be published this year.
