Man convicted of killing Northwestern graduate student Shane Colombo in Chicago

CHICAGO (CBS) — A man was convicted Thursday night of six counts of murder in a 2018 shooting in Rogers Park that killed a Northwestern University graduate student who had just moved to Chicago at the time.

A jury convicts Diante speed in the murder of a 25-year-old Shane Colombo.

Colombo was shot while waiting for a bus on Clark Street near Howard Street around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 2, 2018. He was shot in the chest, lower back and wrist and pronounced dead at Ascension St. Francis Hospital in Evanston.

Colombo had left his house to run an errand and was caught in a crossfire between two other men. Police said he was not the target of the shooting.

At the time, Colombo had only lived in Chicago for six hours after moving from California.

Colombo had come to Northwestern with impressive credentials in psychology.

Speed ​​was arrested in August 2019 after police said he was found to have fired a handgun multiple times during the incident.