Skokie Native Working on Documentary About Murdered Chicago Youth

Skokie independent filmmaker Shaiking Mathis, 26,  ­is working on a documentary about Robert “Yummy” Sandifer, whose gang-related death became national news, Evanston Review reported. 

In 1994, Yummy, a sixth-grader whose nickname referred to his love for cookies, spent three days evading authorities for shooting a 14-year-old girl to death in South Side Chicago, Chicago Tribune reported. 

But before police could arrest him, members of his gang lured him into a car and put two bullets in the back of his head, Chicago Tribune reported. 

Mathis, a television director at the Evanston Community Media Center, says he can identify with Sandifer’s story because he has served time in a Wisconsin prison and hopes the documentary, which hits Ford City theater on Sept. 1, will show Chicago’s troubled youth how to solve conflicts without using violence, Evanston Review reported.