Homicide Watch Chicago

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Chicago rapper Young Pappy, who had previously been the intended target in at least two shootings that left bystanders dead, was himself fatally shot early Friday in the Uptown neighborhood. Shaquon Thomas, 19, was in the 4800 block of North Kenmore Avenue when gunfire erupted about 1:35 a.m., authorities … Read more →

BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times When 15-year-old Denzel Burke received an order from an older Conservative Vice Lord to shoot at a rival they spotted on a sidewalk in Rogers Park, he and his teenage pal dutifully got out of the car they were traveling in and chased their prey, Cook County prosecutors alleged Friday. … Read more →

BY MITCH DUDEK Chicago Sun-Times To feel closer to him, every day Maria Lewis visits the bus stop where her husband, Wil, was killed by stray gang gunfire last month in Rogers Park. She sits against a building, beneath a bullet hole in a window frame — the last remnant of the afternoon Wil died, … Read more →

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Photographer Wil Lewis was fatally shot by an errant bullet while waiting for a bus in the Rogers Park neighborhood this month, prosecutors said. Reader “cerajae” posted this about him: Wil was an example of a truly genuine, awesome human being and will be missed dearly. We were born 3 days apart on two separate … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Eric Vaughn was sentenced to seven years in prison for a 2004 attempted murder conviction. Now he is being held without bond on murder charges for his alleged role in a Saturday afternoon shooting on the North Side that left innocent bystander William Lewis dead. Vaughn, a purported … Read more →

BY MITCH DUDEK Chicago Sun-Times Wil Lewis escaped poverty in Guatemala when he was adopted at age 7. Loving parents raised him in Wisconsin, where he found his two passions: photography and the woman who would become his wife. He attended art school in Milwaukee and moved to Chicago two years ago. He was looking … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Twelve people died last week from shootings throughout Chicago. Three of the shootings happened early last Monday at the end of a bloody Independence Day weekend that saw 13 people killed and 58 others wounded by gunfire. The last shooting of the week happened when a gunman walked … Read more →

William Lewis was shot to death Saturday afternoon on the North Side. Lewis, 28, was standing in the 1300 block of West Devon Avenue when a gunman walked up and shot him in the back about 3:20 p.m. Saturday, authorities said. Lewis, of the 4700 block of North Hermitage Avenue, died at Presence Saint Francis … Read more →