By JARED LANSMAN and TRISTAN SIMS
Homicide Watch Chicago
At least 9 people were killed in Chicago violence this past week, though police say one may have been a case of self-defense; and a 10th person may have been a homicide victim, though an autopsy has proven inconclusive.
In the latest homicide, 20-year-old Chris Green was found shot and killed in an alley on the Far South Side early Sunday.
Green, of the 12000 block of South Parnell, was discovered unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds at 5 a.m. in the 11700 block of South LaSalle, police said. He was dead at the scene.
Vaughn King Jr. died and another man was critically wounded in a lakefront shooting early Sunday in the Oakland neighborhood on the South Side.
King, 21; and and a 31-year-old man were sitting on the lakefront near 43rd Street about 3:15 a.m. when two gunmen walked up and started shooting, police said.
King was shot in the abdomen and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
The older man was shot four times in the abdomen and once in the arm, and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was still listed in critical condition late Sunday.
Elton Buie died Monday, two days after he and two teenagers were shot in University Village.
Buie, 21, of the 1400 block of West Morgan, died at Stroger Hospital at 1:42 p.m. Monday, according to the medical examiner’s office. Police said he was shot in the head.
Buie and two 17-year-old boys were standing outside about 2:45 a.m. Saturday in the 1000 block of West 14th Street when a light-colored car drove up, police said. Two males exited the vehicle and fired shots before jumping back in the car and speeding away.
All three gunshot victims were taken to Stroger Hospital, police said. One teen was shot in the arm and leg, and the other was shot in the leg. Their conditions had stabilized.
Spencer Stewart, 22, was killed early Sunday outside a house party in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
About 1 a.m., Stewart was shot in the head and pronounced dead near a house in the 4800 block of West Kamerling, where four others people were wounded when two males approached and fired shots at the crowd outside the home, police said.
A 21-year-old man was shot in the back and chest, and was in critical condition, police said. A 20-year-old man was shot in the abdomen and his condition was stabilized. Another man, 19, was shot in the thigh; and a 24-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the arm.
The first victim of gun violence this past weekend was 23-year-old Honorio Hernandez, shot early Friday near his home in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood, and he later died of his wounds Sunday.
Hernandez was on the sidewalk in the 4300 block of South Wood about 4:50 a.m. when a vehicle drove up and someone inside shot him multiple times in the chest and neck, police said.
He was discovered unresponsive at the scene, and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the same block as the shooting.
Taylor J. Lewis was killed and another person injured in a drive-by shooting near his South Chicago neighborhood home late Thursday.
Lewis, 35, and a 19-year-old man were standing outside in the 8900 block of South Houston at 11:40 p.m. when a vehicle drove by and someone inside opened fire, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
Lewis was shot in the upper left part of his chest and was dead at the scene, authorities said. The younger man was shot in the leg and his condition was stabilized.
Police were investigating the scene while mourning family members stood outside Lewis’s home, which was on the same block of the shooting.
Earlier Thursday, 21-year-old Jesse M. Diaz was shot to death in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Diaz, of the 12000 block of Artesian in Blue Island, was shot in the head, back and arm in the 12000 block of South Prairie at around 3:45 a.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office. He was pronounced dead 15 minutes later at a hospital.
The most talked-about killing was that of 40-year-old Alprentiss Nash on the Near West Side on Tuesday.
Nash was shot in the chest in the 400 block of South Paulina at 2:20 p.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office. He died at Stroger Hospital.
Nash was best known for spending 17 years in prison for a murder conviction that was overturned in 2012. He had been convicted of the murder and robbery of a man on the South Side in 1995, but was later exonerated by DNA evidence.
However, two days after he was fatally shot, police said the man who shot Nash may have acted in self-defense.
Nash tried to rob 30-year-old Mount Prospect resident Paul Vukadinovic, “with whom he had a long drug history,” according to a police statement released Thursday.
Both men were armed and they exchanged gunfire, police said. The shooting is “being explored as a possible self-defense case,” police said.
Vukadinovic was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and carrying a loaded gun without a concealed carry permit. His bond was set at $100,000 Friday.
Corey Wallace was stabbed to death in the Ashburn neighborhood on the Southwest Side on Monday night.
Wallace, 21, was stabbed in the chest at 7:20 p.m. near his home in the 7700 block of South Kedize, according to Chicago Police and the medical examiner’s office. He died 30 minutes later at a hospital.
There may have been one additional homicide last week, and police are conducting a death investigation after a 20-year-old woman was found dead in an Austin neighborhood home Wednesday afternoon.
About 12:50 p.m., officers found Brooklyn Ashby of the 5000 block of West Concord dead in a house in the 4900 block of West Kamerling.
The body showed signs of head trauma, but an autopsy Thursday was inconclusive, with results pending further studies.