By JEFFMAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
At least eight people died from gun violence last week in Chicago, including a man who passed away six months after being shot on the West Side.
A ninth homicide occurred when a German woman was fatally struck by a vehicle on Lake Shore Drive, an incident that led to the motorcyclist being charged with reckless homicide.
Perry Burrell was fatally shot early Sunday in West Garfield Park.
Burrell, 26, was found with a gunshot wound to the head about 2:45 a.m. in a vehicle that had crashed into a tree in the 4500 block of West Adams, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Burrell, of the 2300 block of North Avers, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the medical examiner’s office.
By JEFFMAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
At least 9 people were killed in gun violence last week in Chicago, including a 3-year-old boy who died after being accidentally shot by his 6-year-old brother while playing cops and robbers with their dad’s illegal gun. Michael Santiago told a judge he bought the gun to protect himself after the former gang member was tagged with a “snitch” label for testifying at the murder trial of another gang member. But Santiago’s 6-year-old son got his hands on the gun and accidentally shot his brother while the toddler ate a bowl of macaroni and cheese, Cook County prosecutors said at Santiago’s bond hearing.
Santiago said he warned his elder son that the Smith & Wesson .32-caliber revolver—bundled in pajamas atop the refrigerator in the family’s garden apartment in Humboldt Park—was to be handled “only by adults,” but the boy got the weapon and shot his brother, Eian H. Santiago, in the head just after 9 p.m. Saturday, prosecutors said. Police said the older boy was playing cops and robbers.
A family member carried Eian to Norwegian American Hospital. He was later transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died at 11:48 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy ruled his death a homicide.
Santiago, 25, admitted he bought the gun off the street, and had no carry permit or FOID card, prosecutors said. He was charged with felony child endangerment causing death, and ordered held on a $75,000 bond.
Two people were shot—one fatally—in the Gresham neighborhood Sunday afternoon.
Brianna Jenkins, 19, and a 20-year-old man were sitting in a car about 4:30 p.m. in the 7800 block of South Honore when someone walked up and opened fire, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Read more
By JEFFMAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
At least 8 people died from gunshot wounds in Chicago last week, including three teenage boys—two of them 15 and one 17.
Fifteen-year-old Kiyon Evans was shot to death Friday afternoon in Austin. Police discovered the boy’s body in a rear yard in the 4900 block of West Congress at about 12:45 p.m., according to Chicago Police.
Evans suffered gunshot wounds to the legs and torso, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Evans, who lived in the 700 block of East 50th Place, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Another 15-year-old, Davion Funches, was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon in Chicago Lawn. Read more
At least 11 people died from violence in Chicago last week, including five who died in mass shootings Monday night and Tuesday morning; and a 20-year-old man who died after six years in a coma. A 12th person died when they were fatally struck by an alleged drunk driver on the Eisenhower Expressway.
Jeremy Gonzalez died Thursday night, nearly six years after he was shot in the head while walking with his mother in Logan Square.
Jeremy, known as Kiko, was 14 when he and his mother were walking in the 3400 block of West Armitage shortly after 9 a.m. on Dec. 8, 2009, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
That’s when a man or teenager with short, dark hair and a dark blue sweatshirt walked up, yelled gang slogans, and shot Gonzalez in the back of the head, police said at the time.
He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center and later transferred to Lurie Children’s Hospital; he spent the last six years in a coma, according to authorities and family members. Read more
At least 11 people died from violence in Chicago last week, including four killed over a bloody weekend during which more than 50 other people were wounded by gunfire.
The week’s latest homicide was a man shot Sunday afternoon in North Lawndale, one of at least 57 people shot over the weekend.
About 3 p.m., Quinton D. Goins, 25, was inside a car in the 3900 block of West Roosevelt Road when another car drove by and people from inside both cars began shooting at each other, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Goins, of the 3000 block of West Flournoy Street, was shot in the back and shoulder, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was died at 2:42 p.m., authorities said.
A man was shot to death early Sunday in Longwood Manor on the South Side. Read more
At least 16 people died from violence last week in Chicago, including a 14-year-old boy and a former star basketball player at a Southwest Side high school.
Eight of those were fatally shot over an especially bloody weekend, during which at least 45 other people were wounded by gunfire.
The 14-year-old was shot to death and another teenage boy injured in a drive-by shooting Saturday night in Kenwood. The boys were outside in the 4400 block of South Greenwood at 7:30 p.m. when a car drove by and someone inside started shooting, according to Chicago Police.
The 14-year-old, identified as Tyjuan Poindexter of the 1200 block of East 46th Street, was shot in the head and died at the scene at 8:01 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The 15-year-old suffered two leg wounds and was taken to the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, police said. Read more
At least 6 people were homicide victims last week in Chicago, though one was ruled self-defense. And the body of a woman murdered months earlier was found dismembered and packed in suitcases in the Little Calumet River, a grisly crime for which two men are being held without bond.
There were two fatal shootings over the weekend, just hours apart in the South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
Ashton Simpson was fatally shot Sunday night. The 36-year-old was inside a building in the 8300 block of South Wood when he heard gunshots and went outside to check about 9:10 p.m., according to Chicago Police.
Police said he was then shot in the chest, face and arm. Simpson, who lived on the same block, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
About two hours earlier, a 19-year-old man was fatally shot, also in Auburn Gresham. Akim Gaddis was standing outside in the 8400 block of South Loomis at 6:53 p.m. when a vehicle pulled up and someone inside opened fire, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Read more
At least 22 people were homicide victims last week in Chicago, including 9 on Wednesday, the single highest homicide total in one day in over 10 years.
And that number does not include an 11-year-old boy who died of a gunshot wound that police have called accidental; nor the remains of a young child found in lagoon in Garfield Park.
Reba M. Wagner was killed in a shooting that left another man injured Sunday morning in Englewood. Officers responded to a call of shots fired in the 7200 block of South Green at 7:45 a.m. and found two people shot, police said.
Wagner, 20, was shot multiple times, at least once in the abdomen, and pronounced dead at the scene at 8:20 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. A 34-year-old man was shot in the leg and taken in good condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
Former Mt. Carmel football star Lavell Southern was killed and another man was injured in a drive-by shooting early Sunday on the Near West Side. Read more
At least 11 people were homicide victims in Chicago last week, including a 66-year-old man fatally struck by a vehicle as the driver was speeding away from a traffic stop.
And that number could go up as authorities investigate a suspicious fire that claimed two lives in Garfield Ridge, and the death of an elderly woman in the same incident that killed the pedestrian.
In the latest fatal incident in a weekend in which 3 people were killed and another 31 injured by gunfire, a 16-year-old boy was killed and a 17-year-old boy injured in a shooting in Chatham early Sunday, Chicago Police said.
The teenagers were standing on the sidewalk in the 8200 block of South Ingleside about 1 a.m. when someone approached on foot and fired shots at them, police said.
DeJaun Pitchford, 16, suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 2:05 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived on the same block where he was shot. Read more
At least 13 people died from violence in Chicago last week, including a man who succumbed to gunshot wounds received about a year earlier. Six of the victims died during another bloody weekend across the city.
The latest fatal shootings happened just minutes apart Sunday night on the West and Southwest sides, finishing off a weekend during which more than 40 people were shot.
A 30-year-old man was killed in a shooting in Gage Park. David Caston was found about 8:40 p.m. on the street in the 2400 block of West 58th Street with gunshot wounds to the abdomen, groin and shoulder, Chicago Police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital where he later died.
Moments earlier, 42-year-old James Douthard was shot to death in Austin, according to police. About 8:35 p.m., Douthard was driving in the 1000 block of North Lamon when someone opened fire, striking him repeatedly, police said. His vehicle then crashed into a parked car, and he died at the scene.
Police are investigating whether that shooting was gang-related. Read more
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