Twenty-three-year-old Samuel Williams died Monday, more than 10 hours after being shot on the block where he lived in the Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Officers responding to a call of shots fired just after 7 p.m. Sunday in the 1900 block of North Karlov found Williams unresponsive on the ground with gunshot wounds to the face, chest, back and hand, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Williams was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 5:33 a.m. Monday, authorities said. He lived in the 1900 block of North Kedvale.
Police did not have more details on the shooting as of Tuesday morning.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A northwest Indiana man who died a day after being shot multiple times in the South Side Gresham neighborhood has been identified as 18-year-old Taiwan Fox.
Fox was found unresponsive about 11:40 p.m. Saturday on the sidewalk in the 1100 block of West 81st Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He had suffered gunshot wounds to the back, neck and groin.
Fox, of the 500 block of Rhode Island Street in Gary, Indiana, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 3:44 p.m. Sunday, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
An autopsy showed he died of multiple gunshot wounds.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Jacob Shelton | Chicago Police
Chicago Police say
Jacob Shelton stabbed
Lucius Delaney to death during a “domestic fight” in the victim’s Woodlawn neighborhood home Sunday morning.
Shelton, 37, has been charged with murder for stabbing the 45-year-old Delaney, police said.
The two got into an argument about 8:15 a.m. inside Delaney’s home in the 6600 block of South Vernon, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Shelton then used a knife to stab Delaney in the chest, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:42 a.m.
Lucius Delaney | Facebook
The attack stemmed from a domestic fight, police said, though their relationship was not clear. Shelton’s home address was listed on the same block, but it was not known if he lived with Delaney.
Shelton was arrested after the stabbing and charged with first-degree murder, police said. He was due in bond court Tuesday.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Rashad Xavier Collins-Baker was fatally shot early Sunday in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.
Officers responding about 3:05 a.m. to a call of a person shot in the 2400 block of West Lexington found the 23-year-old lying on the ground, suffering from gunshot wounds to the back, according to Chicago Police.
Collins-Baker was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:45 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 100 block of Elm Street.
An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Jonathan Sanchez was shot near his apartment in Rogers Park early Sunday, and died about two hours later at a hospital.
The 27-year-old walked out of the back door of his apartment in the 7300 block of North Sheridan. Upon returning about 1:50 a.m., Sanchez told friends that he’d been shot, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Sanchez was shot in the back, and was taken to Presence Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead at 3:30 a.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help with funeral expenses for the father of one, whom family members described as a “stay-at-home dad.”
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A man found shot to death early Saturday in a West Garfield Park neighborhood alley has been identified as 37-year-old Sentwali Davis.
Family members say Davis’ life was forever changed more than 20 years ago by the same violence that finally claimed him Saturday.
Officers found Davis suffering multiple gunshot wounds to the head about 1:40 a.m. in the 4200 block of West Wilcox, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Davis, of the 2200 block of West Jackson, was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:02 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
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By ASHLEE REZIN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Chicago Police investigate in the 1500 block of South Christiana, where a 22-year-old man was shot to death early Sunday. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
was shot to death early Sunday in the Lawndale neighborhood, leaving a neighbor thankful that her young son was staying with a relative at the time.
About 2:10 a.m., officers saw shots fired in the 1500 block of South Christiana, where a man was shot in the chest, according to Chicago Police.
Hurley, 22, was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:25 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1300 block of South Lawndale Avenue.
Officers spotted several people leaving the scene of the shooting and a foot pursuit ensued, police said.
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Jason Balboa was found shot early Sunday in the Little Village neighborhood on the Southwest Side, and died about five hours later at a hospital.
Just before 5 a.m., officers responding to a call of shots fired found the 29-year-old lying on the ground in the 2800 block of South Pulaski, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Balboa had suffered gunshot wounds to the head and torso, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:28 a.m., authorities said. His home address was not known.
Area Central detectives are conducting a homicide investigation.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Giovanni Galvan was shot to death Saturday morning in the Southwest Side Little Village neighborhood.
Galvan, 20, was standing on the sidewalk about 10:15 a.m. in the 3100 block of West 24th Street when a vehicle pulled up and someone inside fired at him, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The vehicle then drove away.
Galvan was shot in the chest, abdomen, back and arm; and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, authorities said. He was pronounced dead there at 10:41 a.m.
He lived in the 2200 block of South Trumbull, the medical examiner’s office said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times
Tiera Graves | Chicago Police
A Far South Side woman charged with fatally shooting her cousin,
Marilyn Duffie, during an argument over a messy apartment Tuesday evening at their home in the Eden Green neighborhood has been ordered held on a $1 million bond.
Tiera Graves, 28, faces one count of first-degree murder, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
About 7:20 p.m. Tuesday, Graves and her cousin, the 21-year-old Duffie, got into an argument about Duffie’s lack of cleanliness around the apartment they shared in the 300 block of East 130th Street, and her actions around Graves’s son, prosecutors said.
Duffie cut her hand on a fish tank in the apartment and went next door to clean her wound, prosecutors said. She complained loudly about Graves, who then confronted Duffie in the hallway.
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