Cyclist Samuel Bell was killed in a River West crash, the Chicago Police Department said. He is being remembered as a devoted volunteer.
Friends remember the joking and the laughter that always followed Samuel Bell, who relished his work on behalf of disadvantaged youth.these children whose brothers and fathers died due to gang violence," said Kevin Klein, a friend who worked with Bell at the Midtown Educational Foundation. "He was able to work with these kids to keep them off the street and keep them on a good path.
The Midtown Educational Foundation works with low-income youth in Chicago by providing programs aimed at academic excellence, virtue development, individual attention and parental engagement, according to the organization's mission statement. Angel Justiniano, 30, was in a program at the organization from 4th grade through high school before he became a program manager for the organization in college and began working with Bell.
"He stayed committed to the organization and the mission, and that was just him," Justinianao said. "He made ithis second home. If you reach out to anyone in the organization who had association with it in the last 12, 13, 14 years, they know who Sam Bell was and what he did.""It's this aura about him, it was genuine," Justiniano said. "He was the guy in the room that everyone gravitated toward.
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