Aspiring writer/rapper Justin Bowman was a ‘great father’ who told ‘his life and his story through the pen’

By ELIZABETH CZAPSKI Homicide Watch Chicago When Alexandria Batie looks at her three-year-old son, she sees his father, Justin T. Bowman. “His son is the spitting image of him,” said Batie, Bowman’s fiancée. Her son also shares Bowman’s childhood love of Spider-Man. Bowman was shot to death on April 24, 2016, in the Logan Square … Read more →

Bond denied for 24-year-old man charged with fatal shooting of Justin Bowman in April in Logan Square

A man has been ordered held without after being charged with the April 24 murder of Justin T. Bowman in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Bond was denied Friday for 24-year-old Alfredo Ramos, charged with first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of the 25-year-old Bowman, according to Chicago Police and the Cook … Read more →

Alfredo Ramos

Suspected in the April 24, 2016 death of Justin T. Bowman.

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