Who was Niolis Collazo, Waukegan High School volleyball coach killed in shooting?

Niolis Collazo was an associate volleyball trainer at Waukegan Secondary School

She was killed on April 6

No suspects have been found at this point

Niolis Collazo, a Waukegan Secondary School volleyball trainer, was shot and killed over the course of the end of the week.

Who was Niolis Collazo? Born in 2000, Niolis Collazo was an associate volleyball trainer at Waukegan Secondary School. She was killed on May 6, 2023.

Around 10:45 on Saturday night, Collazo was killed in a shooting along tenth Road and Lewis Road in Waukegan. Close to a white car, specialists found various shell housings on the asphalt.

No one has yet revealed the subtleties of the episode, and it is hazy whether anybody has been arrested.

After learning of Collazo’s passing, the school on Monday delivered the accompanying email to its area, which incorporated the accompanying: “It is with extraordinary bitterness that we report the surprising passing of Ms. Niolis Collazo. Ms. Collazo functioned as a partner young men volleyball trainer at Waukegan Secondary School. She was likewise an instructor with Youth Direction’s Chipping away at Womanhood program, where she worked with young women at Smith Center School.”

Collazo drove the young men volleyball crew and moved on from secondary school in 2018, the locale’s representative said. She likewise regulated and directed young ladies at Waukegan Smith Center School and filled in as a guide for the Chicago-based “Dealing with Womanhood” program.

As indicated by an explanation from the school, Monday will see guides present at Smith Center School, Washington and Brookside grounds, and Waukegan Secondary School.

Congratulations to Niolis Collazo for being named to the NSC All Conference girls volleyball team! @boricuaxlovinn

— Waukegan Volleyball (@waukvolleyball) November 2, 2017

She likewise worked with youthful females at Smith Center School as an advocate for Youth Direction’s Chipping away at Womanhood program, which started in February.

As per Waukegan police, officials were called to the crossing point of tenth Road and Lewis Road soon after 10:35 p.m. because of reports of gunfire.

As per police, when they showed up, they found two vehicles that had been taken shots at. Before the shooting, they were going in isolated ways and had no association by any means. In the principal vehicle, which had just been struck once, there was a male casualty. The police expressed that he was safe.

Collazo, 23, of Waukegan was the sole tenant of the Honda Community in the subsequent vehicle and had been shot, as per police. She died at the Vista East Clinical Center.

The post-mortem examination at the Lake District Coroner’s Office is in progress.

Collazo, as per relatives, was restless to help youngsters. She called her sister from North Chicago while venturing out home to Waukegan to tell her she had abandoned her home keys, as per Mia Carani, her sister.

Notwithstanding Smith Center School, the Washington and Brookside grounds of Waukegan Secondary School are facilitating individuals from the school region’s Emotional well-being Reaction Group on Monday. As indicated by the representative, Youth Direction would send more psychological well-being experts to Smith to help students.