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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


The Justice for Bobby Russ petition page. Russ was shot and killed by a police officer on June 4, 1999, while driving to visit his mother. He would’ve graduated later that month.

Students share petition calling to reopen investigation into shooting of NU student Bobby Russ by police 21 years after his death

June 5, 2020

Twenty-one years ago, a Chicago police officer shot and killed Bobby Russ — a black Northwestern senior less than three weeks away from graduating — as he drove down the Dan Ryan Expressway to visit...

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