Hobart man, a security guard, among dead in Chicago shootout - Post-Tribune

Hobart man, a security guard, among dead in Chicago shootout - Post-Tribune

Sun-Time Media November 3, 2011 8:20PM

CHICAGO — A security guard from Hobart was fatally shot along with three others during an attempted robbery that turned into a shootout Wednesday night in Chicago. Two others were wounded in the melee.

Suspected robber Alex Spikes, 17, was fatally shot after Michael Banks, 30, of Hobart, returned fire around 9:30 p.m., authorities said. Banks died at the scene.

Store worker Weam “Weezy” Salem, 25, of Worth, Ill., was also killed, as was father-of-five Ihab Arafen, 45, of Lansing, Ill.

Arafen was making a delivery of cell phones to the store in the city’s the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood on the Far South Side when he was caught in the middle of the gunfight, his son Zaid said.

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