Two men have been convicted of attempted murder and aggravated battery for a shooting that paralyzed a Chicago high school basketball coach who played on one of the teams featured in the 1994 documentary "Hoop Dreams."
Shawn Harrington was driving his then-16-year-old daughter to school in Jan. 2014 when he was shot multiple times while stopped in the city's Humboldt Park neighborhood.
Authorities said the attackers mistook his car for another that had been involved in an earlier shooting, and opened fire on the vehicle from a corner at the intersection of W Augusta Blvd and N Hamlin Ave.
Evidence technicians found a bullet lodged in the head rest where his teenage daughter was sitting, who was uninjured in the shooting, prosecutors said at the time.
A spokesperson for prosecutors, Tandra Simonton, said a jury on Friday convicted Cedryck Davis and Deandre Thompson in the attack, which left Harrington paralyzed from the waist down. Their sentencing is set for Feb. 28.
Harrington is an assistant basketball coach at John Marshall Metropolitan High School in the city's East Garfield Park neighborhood. He played for the team when "Hoop Dreams" was being filmed.
