Homicide Watch Chicago

By JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times Wire A 50-year-old man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for fatally shooting Martavian Emery, who allegedly directed the killer’s daughter to a Back of the Yards home, where she was beaten and robbed at gunpoint in 2014. Otis Harriel pleaded guilty Oct. 5 to murder before Judge … Read more →

Martavian Emery, 21, was fatally shot April 26, 2014, in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Prosecutors said Emery directed a woman to a nearby home, where she was beaten and robbed, and her father came back and shot him. Reader Carla Coleman posted this about Emery: I disagree he didn’t know anything was about … Read more →

Otis Harriel / Photo from Chicago Police BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor A 47-year-old father fatally shot a man who allegedly directed his daughter to a Back of the Yards home, where she was beaten and robbed at gunpoint in April 2014, prosecutors said. Martavian Emery and his 20-sister were walking to a … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Eight people were murdered throughout Chicago last week, raising the city’s homicide total to nearly 100. Five of the eight killings happened over the weekend, which also saw 35 other people wounded by gunfire. The most recent murder happened when 40-year-old Cicero resident Benito Juarez was stabbed during … Read more →

Martavian Emery was killed and another person was wounded in an early Saturday shooting in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Emery, 21, was inside the kitchen area of a home in the 5400 block of South Winchester Avenue when somebody opened fire from outside, authorities said. Emery, of an unidentified home address, was struck … Read more →