If It Predictable, Its Preventable

Phil Andrew, who was injured by school shooter Laurie Dann in Winnetka 30 years ago, is speaking Wednesday night on a panel at Evanston Township High School about getting communities to work together to prevent gun violence. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

He was targeted by school shooter Laurie Dann. Now he's teamed up with high school students to prevent more bloodshed.

It was 1988, and Laurie Dann opened fire at Hubbard Woods School, killing an 8-year-old boy and injuring five other children, part of a violent, daylong rampage that ended after Dann walked into the family home of Phil Andrew, 20 years old at the time, and held him hostage, along with his parents, for hours. As police closed in on the house, Dann shot Andrew in the chest before killing herself.

Andrew survived and went on to serve as executive director for the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence and, for 21 years, as an FBI agent. In February, Cardinal Blase Cupich appointed Andrew to a newly created position of director of violence prevention for the Archdiocese of Chicago.