Luis Corona was shot to death Saturday night by two men who tried to rob him in the Archer Heights neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Corona, 19, was in a parked vehicle at 8:05 p.m. in the 4800 block of South Karlov when two male suspects announced a robbery, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He tried to escape but was shot in the chest, and then crashed his vehicle into two parked vehicles at the end of an alley, police said.
Corona, who lived in the 6100 block of South Moody, was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:25 p.m., authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Tyrice Anderson was shot to death late Friday on the block where he lives in the South Shore neighborhood.
Officers responding to a call of a person shot just before midnight found him near 78th Street and South Shore Drive with a gunshot wound to the head, Chicago Police said.
Anderson, 30, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 1:03 a.m. Saturday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office and police. He lived in the same block as the shooting.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
After being shot several times Friday morning while sitting in a car in the West Englewood neighborhood, Steven Cowan died Friday night at a hospital.
Cowan, 29, was sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle at 11:31 a.m. in the 6400 block of South Damen, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office,
Someone walked out of a gangway, fired several shots at him, then ran away through the same gangway, according to police.
Cowan suffered gunshot wounds to the back, chest and both arms. He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 9 p.m. Friday, authorities said. His death was ruled a homicide.
Cowan lived in the 8500 block of South Hermitage.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Hernando Lamont Caster was shot to death in the Austin neighborhood Friday night on the West Side.
The 38-year-old Caster was on a sidewalk in the 4900 block of West Huron about 9 p.m. when two gunmen walked up and shot him in the back and thighs, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Caster was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died at 10:58 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the 5300 block of West Washington.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Martell Turner was shot to death while sitting in a car early Saturday about a block from his home in the South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
At 12:04 a.m., the 25-yar-old Turner was sitting in a vehicle in the 1200 block of West 79th Street when someone walked up and fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Turner was hit in the chest and abdomen, and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m., authorities said. He lived just a block away in the 7900 block of South Throop.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Chicago Police investigate a homicide in the 1000 block of North Willard Court early Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Chicago Police believe the fatal shootings of
Phillip Lewis and
Lawrence Washington — about five hours and a block apart in the Goose Island neighborhood on the Near North Side — are related, but they aren’t sure how.
Early Thursday, a man was found shot to death in the 1000 block of north Willard Court, according to Chicago Police.
The 35-year-old was found in the driver’s seat of his car with a gunshot wound to the head at 12:18 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was pronounced dead at the scene, but the medical examiner’s office had not released his name as of Thursday afternoon.
However, the Illinois Department of Corrections identified him as Washington, a correctional officer with the department since 2003. He worked at the Stateville Correctional Center and lived in south suburban Markham.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Kimberlynn Bolanos | Cook County Sheriff’s Dept.
A young mother was sentenced to 38 years in prison Wednesday after she pleaded guilty but mentally ill in the stabbing death of her 5-month-old son
Isaac Bolanos.
“To say this case is chilling is an understatement,” Cook County Judge Charles Burns said.
Burns noted that Kimberlynn Bolanos has suffered from bipolar and obsessive compulsive disorders, and has substance abuse problems.
The judge said he believed what happened on May 30, 2013, was an isolated incident and urged the 24-year-old to better her life while she is behind bars.
Bolanos admitted to authorities that she stabbed Isaac because she had premonitions something bad would happen to him and was afraid authorities would take the infant away because of her crack cocaine habit, prosecutors said at the time.
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By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
Mahdi Herring | Facebook
A 17-year-old boy was ordered held without bond Thursday for a gang-related shooting that left 19-year-old
Mahdi Herring dead and two others wounded on the South Side over the summer.
Herring and a 16-year-old boy were standing outside the 71st Meat Market, at the corner at 71st and Rhodes, on the afternoon of Aug. 27 when someone who was aware of on-going gang conflicts told them Jarvis Hayes and another person were approaching, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Jamie Santini said.
Herring and the boy ended up walking across the street to the porch of a nearby residence. But Hayes and his friend kept approaching their rivals, taunting them for walking away, Santini said.
The two groups started fighting and Hayes threw a punch at the 16-year-old boy who was with Herring, Santini said.
Herring then stepped into the fight, Santini said. That’s when Hayes and his friend pulled out their guns and start firing, Santini said.
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DeAndre Walton was shot to death Thursday evening in the Homan Square neighborhood on the West Side.
About 6:40 p.m., someone walked up to the 41-year-old Walton in the 3500 block of West Polk and started shooting, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Walton was struck several times, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:56 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the first block of North Latrobe.
Friends said on Facebook that Walton had moved out of Chicago, but was back in the city to attend a funeral and visit friends.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Khan Butler, who was shot Saturday night in the South Chicago neighborhood, died later the next day.
Butler, 31, was a passenger in a van traveling the 8200 block of South Houston about 8:35 p.m. Saturday when someone on foot nearby fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Butler, of the 8100 block of South Coles, later showed up at Trinity Hospital, authorities said. He was transferred to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 1:23 p.m. Sunday.
An autopsy Thursday showed he died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to the medical examiner’s office.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
