The two were on "walk and talk" duty, building bonds with folks outside Cabrini-Green on the North Side, when sniper fire from a high-rise of the public housing complex struck and killed both men as they walked across a grassy field.
The family had urged LaSalle to not come around the neighborhood so much, but he grew up in a now-closed part of the Cabrini-Green rowhouses ... He doesn’t plan to return to Cabrini-Green ever again ... Cabrini-Green “had its day,” in her words.
JamesSeverin and OfficerAnthony Rizzato were each struck in the back as they walked across Seward Park and killed instantly by bullets fired by snipers using high-powered rifles inside a Cabrini-Green high-rise on July 17, 1970.
Illinois Appellate Court records state that Carter was a longtime drug dealer in the Cabrini-Green rowhouses and was previously shot in the neighborhood in 2007.