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James Osborne also jumped out of a ‘perfectly good airplane’ to celebrate his 70th birthday

Devoureaux Wolf told the Chicago Sun0Times. “Some of them needed a way to express themselves and Verndell would get that out of them.” Sheila Neal, a mother whose son danced at Smith’s dance studio, called the instructor a “sweetheart” who “cared about those kids beyond recognition.”  Smith founded The Ultimate Threat dance organization ten years ago and created the Greater Grand Crossing dance studio for youth in the community. He also leaves behind his own ten-year-old son. With a complete loss of hearing in one ear and only partial hearing the other, Smith had an extraor...

For a moment, the amount of red and orange balloons lurching in the breeze late Saturday morning behind a Park Manor coffee shop was so great that it appeared the sky was aflame. The balloons were gripped by a crowd of at least 200 people, waiting for the cue from Verndell “Scotty” Smith III, the 10-year-old son of a beloved dance coach who was killed in a shooting earlier this week where they ...

On Saturday, team members, relatives and other loved ones marched from his studio at 460 E. 75th St. to the Dunkin’ for a balloon release before heading back to a grassy lot nearby, where Ultimate Threat carried on Smith’s memory through more dancing.