CHICAGO, March 30 (UPI) -- Chicago police are investigating the shooting death of a 17-year-old high school student who may have been killed for his $110 Nike Air Jordan athletic shoes.
Officers found Steve Terrett in a South Side alley Tuesday night. He was shot in his back and died later at a hospital.
Terrett's mother said the teenager was wearing month-old Air Jordan "Solidify" shoes when he left home to visit a girlfriend. A wallet and cell phone also were missing, WMAQ-TV, Chicago, said.
Terrett's mother had given him money for the white shoes with a small logo of Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan in flight because he was doing well at Robeson High School.
"You work so hard, your kid do good and you buy him what he asks you to buy him and then someone takes his life over a gym shoe. It hurts so bad," said his sobbing mother.
Robberies involving Air Jordan's were common when the Bulls were winning NBA championships during the 1990's but no one was killed over a pair of gym shoes.
