As news spread of the shooting Wednesday, tributes to Bankston from former classmates, students, players, friends and community members mounted online.
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 Tim Bankston, a local basketball star who led Chicago’s Simeon Career Academy to a state title back in the ‘80s and went on
to coach at Thornton Fractional North High School in Calumet City, was found with a gunshot wound to his abdomen inside an Auburn Gresham residence just before 10 a.m., per Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Related articles: | | | |
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