Lavaris “Goose” Johnson was shot to death early Friday in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, just hours after he was reportedly wounded in another shooting less than a mile away.
Officers investigate after a fatal Lawndale shooting early Friday. | Network Video Productions
Officers responding to a call of a person down at 1:07 a.m. found the 30-year-old Johnson with multiple gunshot wounds in the 1600 block of South Millard, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The circumstances of the attack were unknown.
Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:28 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 4100 block of South Berkeley.
About three hours earlier, a 30-year-old man was shot in the 1800 block of South Pulaski. About 10:05 p.m., he was driving when someone in a light colored car pulled up and opened fire, according to police. The victim was shot in the left arm and drove himself to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was treated and released.
Police said investigators were looking into the possibility that the two shootings were related, but would not confirm media reports that Johnson was the victim in the earlier shooting.
However, a friend posted on Facebook that Johnson had been shot in the arm and taken himself to the ER just hours before being killed.
Known to friends as “Goose,” he attended Westinghouse Area Vocational High School and Chicago State University.
—Homicide Watch Chicago and Chicago Sun-Times Wire