By msnbc.com
Chicago police Sgt. Darwin Butler was working his midnight shift on Nov. 27, according to the Chicago?Tribune,?when a routine call came in: A victim had been shot while driving a white Chevrolet.?
Butler drove his squad car to the scene, and briefly shined his flashlight on the driver's face, he told The Chicago Tribune. It was a young African-American man, unresponsive, with a bullet wound to the shoulder in a vehicle that looked vaguely familiar.
"I never looked at the person to be anyone that I knew because I see (gunshot victims) so often working the streets like that," Butler later said to The Tribune. "And my first thought was, 'Wow. Another person potentially lost their life.'"
Suddenly he heard a woman screaming, "That's my sister's boyfriend, Darius!", and it hit him: This was indeed his stepson, Darius Parish, 20, the boy he had raised since he was 8.
"I was shocked. I couldn't believe it. I had to look at him again," Butler told The Tribune.
Parish was home on Thanksgiving break from college when the shooting happened. Four others, including a baby, were in the car at the time. One other friend got shot in the arm, but no one else in the car was hurt, according to The Tribune.
No arrests have been made. A funeral was held on Monday in Chicago.
Efforts to reach Sgt. Butler by msnbc.com were not successful. An operator at his precinct said he was not expected in on Tuesday, but Butler told The Tribune his stepson's death has motivated him to improve his community even more.
"I'm going to keep fighting. I'm going to keep trying to make a difference," he said.
Read the full Chicago Tribune story here.
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