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A grieving family in Chicago is desperately seeking answers over a month after their loved one was tragically gunned down in the downtown area.
According to the Chicago Police, Princeton Miller was involved in a dispute with two individuals in the West Loop last month, which escalated when one of the men shot him.
Miller, who was known as both a DJ and a model, has left his family urging anyone with information about the incident to come forward. They shared their heartfelt plea in an exclusive interview with ABC7 Chicago on Friday.
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The incident took place in a lively section of the West Loop, bustling with people. The tragic event unfolded as Miller was out celebrating his younger brother, Robert Hunter’s birthday, when a sudden confrontation ended in gunfire, taking Miller’s life.
“My brother would often joke, saying, ‘You’re not ready for the world, baby bro,'” Hunter recalled. “I never imagined I would have to face a world without him.”
Soon after a picture was taken of them, the unexpected loss followed.
At night time, she cries for her daddy. ‘I want my daddy. Why my daddy is not here? Why is he with God?
Irma Miller, victim’s widow
“A night that was filled with joy just turned into tragedy,” Hunter said.
Hunter’s birthday celebration ended in bloodshed after his older brother, Miller, was gunned down right in front of their cousin as Hunter waited for them at a nearby bar. It happened in the early morning hours of September 21 near Halsted and Lake in the West Loop.
Miller’s family says he was standing outside, waiting for an Uber ride, when he got into an argument with two men, he did not know, who were in a car. One of them then pulled out a gun.
“Had it been the person he had the altercation with it may have been different, but the driver was not in danger of Princeton,” his grandmother Odessa Johnson said. “He’s the one that pulled the trigger. He endangered his passenger as well as shooting Princeton.”
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“You didn’t have to do that,” his sister Paris’sa Boston said. “He was not an imminent threat to you, or anybody. And, you had no regard for life at that point.”
Police say the two drove off while the 38-year-old was shot in his chest and later died at the hospital.
The victim leaves behind his 3-year-old daughter and two stepdaughters, wife, younger siblings, and parents, just as his passions for modeling and DJing were flourishing. His family home is now left hollow.
“At night time, she cries for her daddy. ‘I want my daddy. Why my daddy is not here? Why is he with God?,’” his widow Irma Miller said.
A spokesperson for CPD confirmed to ABC7 Friday that two men were taken in for questioning but were later released without charges as the investigation continues.
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