Community honors Chicago anti-violence advocate killed on Halloween night
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Andre Thomas, 57, of Matteson, dedicated his life to preventing the very violence that claimed his own. What happened to Andre Thomas? Just before 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 31, Chicago Heights police responded to the 400 block of West 14th Street after receiving a gunshot detection alert.
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Andre Thomas, 57, of Matteson, dedicated his life to preventing the very violence that claimed his own. What happened to Andre Thomas? Just before 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 31, Chicago Heights police responded to the 400 block of West 14th Street after receiving a gunshot detection alert.
On Halloween night, Patricia Davis was on the phone with Andre Thomas, her partner of six years, asking him to come home when the line went dead. He'd just been gunned down at his office in Chicago Heights . The killing devastated her. She lost her brother to gun violence 20 years ago.
