By JEFF MAYES
Homicide Watch Chicago
At least 13 people were shot to death last week in Chicago. The death toll included two men who where struck when gunshots were fired in separate incidents on a West Side expressway about six hour apart; and a 17-year-old girl who was killed by a stray bullet when two groups started shooting at each other in Back of the Yards.
One man was shot and killed on the Eisenhower late Thursday morning. Troopers responded to shots fired about 11:50 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of I-290 at Central Avenue, according to Illinois State Police. A passenger in a vehicle, 23-year-old Devon Almon, was shot and the driver took him to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, authorities said.
Almon was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later. The female driver was not wounded. The ramp from I-290 eastbound to Central Avenue was closed for more than two hours after the shooting.
And just a few hours earlier, a man was killed and a woman wounded in another shooting on the Ike on the West Side. The victims were shot about 5:30 a.m. on westbound I-290 near Laramie, according to state police. They were found a few minutes before 6 a.m. at Flournoy and Lockwood and taken to Stroger Hospital, police said.
Jonathan Ortiz, 22, was pronounced dead at the hospital at 6:18 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. The woman was initially listed in critical condition, but was later released from the hospital. Police closed all westbound I-290 lanes in the area for more than four hours to investigate.
- Seventeen-year-old Naome Zuber, a Curie High School student, was fatally shot while riding in a car in the Back of the Yards neighborhood early Saturday. Family members and police do not believe she was the intended target.
The teen was in the backseat of a vehicle traveling north in the 4500 block of South Wood about 12:30 a.m. when a male on the sidewalk and shot her in the head, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office and Chicago Police. She was taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where she was pronounced dead 20 minutes later.
- A young graphic artist/musician was killed and another man wounded in a shooting Sunday morning outside a CTA Pink Line station on the Southwest Side. Officers responded to a call of a fight outside the California station in the 2000 block of South California at 7:38 a.m., according to police.
Corvus “Chrono” Humphries, 20, was shot in the neck and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the medical examiner’s office. Friends said he was not involved in the fight, and had just been dropped off after work. A 24-year-old man was shot in the buttocks and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
- A 35-year-old man was shot to death early Saturday while driving in the Chatham neighborhood. Just before 1 a.m., Jean Vital was going west on 79th Street when he heard gunshots near the intersection of Champlain and realized he’d been struck, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. His car crashed nearby and Vital was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about 90 minutes later.
- A 28-year-old man was man killed in a drive-by shooting in Englewood on Thursday afternoon. At 2:36 p.m., Byron C. Walker was walking in the 1100 block of West 57th Street when a vehicle drove by and someone inside opened fire, striking him in the head, according to police. Walker was pronounced dead at the scene.
- A man fatally shot another man who police say was trying to rob him Wednesday night in the Bronzeville neighborhood. A 22-year-old man was sitting in a vehicle with another man about 8:20 p.m. in the 4300 block of South State when two men armed with handguns walked up and announced a robbery, according to police. The man then pulled a gun and shot one of the would-be robbers in the head, while the other ran away, authorities said. Treamel Gray, 23, was pronounced dead at the scene. The 22-year-old man had a valid concealed carry license, and police said no charges will be filed. Gray’s friend’s, however, do not believe the police version of the story.
- A man died Tuesday evening, three days after he was shot in Englewood. Alvonta Pinex, 27, got into an argument with another man at 2:24 a.m. Saturday in the 7200 block of South Aberdeen, when the suspect pulled a gun and fired shots, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Pinex, of south suburban Riverdale, suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the torso and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died.
- A man was found shot to death in the kitchen of his Ashburn neighborhood home Tuesday afternoon. Emergency crews were called at 4:29 p.m. to the home in the 3800 block of West 84th Place, where they found 32-year-old Arian J. Smith dead on the floor with a gunshot wound to the head, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Smith was pronounced dead at the scene.
- A man was shot to death early Tuesday in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Jevon O’Brien, 26, was shot in the head at 4:05 a.m. in the 1500 block of West Jonquil Terrace, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. O’Brien was taken by friends to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead at 5:50 a.m.
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A man was killed in a West Pullman neighborhood shooting Monday afternoon. About 4:30 p.m., 18-year-old Reginald Fleming Jr. was walking through a vacant lot in the 12000 block of South Prairie when a dark car pulled up nearby and someone inside shot him in the head, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Fleming, who lived in south suburran Lansing, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead about three hours later.
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