Luis Romero was shot Tuesday afternoon in the East Side neighborhood and died at a hospital less than two hours later.
The 22-year-old Romero was outside in the 9400 block of South Ewing about 4:45 p.m. when he heard shots and realized he’d been hit in the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Romero, of the 10300 block of South Avenue L, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:30 p.m., authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Otis Harriel | Illinois Dept. of Corrections
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 James Obbish, according to Cook County court records.
Emery and his sister were walking to a restaurant on April 25, 2014, when Harriel’s daughter asked Emery where she could buy marijuana, prosecutors said at the time.
Emery directed her to a house in the 5400 block of South Winchester Avenue, but when she arrived, she was pistol-whipped and robbed at gunpoint, prosecutors said.
Early the next day, Harriel confronted Emery for information about the robbery and threatened those responsible, prosecutors said. A witness saw a gun inside Harriel’s hooded sweatshirt, and Emery and the witness entered the home where the robbery happened.
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Police believe the shooting that killed 21-year-old Marilyn Duffie on Tuesday in the Eden Green neighborhood was domestic in nature, and say the shooter is in custody.
Duffie got into an argument with the suspect about 7:20 p.m. in her home in the 300 block of East 130th Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
That person then shot her in the chest.
Duffie was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she was pronounced dead at 9:37 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By MITCHELL ARMENTROUT, LUKE WILUSZ and JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Timothy Agnew was killed and four other people, including a 13-year-old boy, were seriously wounded in a West Englewood neighborhood shooting Monday night on a South Side block that was the scene of a similar mass shooting just over a year earlier.
The group was standing in the front yard of a home at 8:50 p.m. in the 6700 block of South Winchester when another group of males walked up and started shooting, according to Chicago Police. The shooters then ran away.
Agnew, 28, was shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:18 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 8100 block of South Maryland.
A 13-year-old boy suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the right thigh, and was taken in critical condition to Comer Children’s Hospital, police said.
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Unless you were a regular at gymnasiums on the North Side, or a local hoops junkie, you may never have heard the name of Gregory Dion Tucker Jr.
Gregory Dion Tucker Jr. and his daughter, Riley. | Facebook
But when the 25-year-old died several hours after he was shot Sunday night in the Uptown neighborhood, there was a collective groan from the area hoops community.
Tucker, who had played ball at local gyms in the Lincoln Park and Uptown areas all his life, was driving south in the 4500 block of North Hazel at 8:35 p.m. Sunday, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Someone fired shots at the car, striking him in the head, police said.
Tucker, who lived in the 4800 block of North Winthrop, was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 11:41 a.m. Monday, according to the medical examiner’s office and family members.
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A fight over a gun led to the fatal shooting of Ronald McBee on Monday night on the block where he lived in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
About 10:40 p.m., the 24-year-old McBee was involved in a fight over a gun with another man in the 7300 block of South Morgan, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The other person eventually gained control of the weapon and opened fire at McBee, authorities said.
McBee suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body, and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:32 p.m., authorities said. He lived on the block where the shooting occurred.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A man shot to death Friday night in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side has been identified as 26-year-old Trasean Stokes.
Stokes was outside at 8:55 p.m. in the 6000 block of North Talman when a group of people walked up and fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Stokes was shot in the chest, and was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead at 9:35 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the 6000 block of North Fairfield.
An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
The death of 15-year-old Demetrius Griffin Jr., whose body was found in a burning trash can last month in the West Side Austin neighborhood, has been ruled a homicide and authorities say he was burned alive.
Demetrius Griffin Jr. | Facebook
At 1:25 a.m. Sept. 17, officers responded to a call of a refuse fire in the 5500 block of West Cortez Street, according to Chicago Police. When officers arrived at the scene, they discovered a burned body inside a garbage receptacle.
The body was identified as Griffin, whose home address was not known, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
An autopsy did not immediately rule on cause and manner of death, but has since found he died of thermal injuries due to the fire in a garbage can, and his death has been ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.
An alert was issued Sept. 19 asking for help locating the suspect, who may have sought medical treatment for burns suffered while setting the fire.
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By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
Elizabeth Diaz | Chicago Police
In retaliation for a gang beating, a 15-year-old boy riding in an
SUV fatally shot 20-year-old
Carlos Ocampo on his bicycle on a Northwest Side street, then got out and repeatedly shot him as he lay on the ground, prosecutors said Friday.
The details emerged Friday in Cook County bond court where a judge set a $1 million bond for 18-year-old Elizabeth Diaz, who is charged with murder because she allegedly drove the shooter to Kelvyn Park on Tuesday to kill the gang member, prosecutors said. The 15-year-old shooter has been charged as a juvenile for shooting Ocampo.
Earlier in the day, Diaz wasn’t happy when she learned her younger brother had been beaten up by some Latin Cobras who believed he was in a rival gang, prosecutors said.
So Diaz and several others, including the gunman, piled in her black Ford Expedition, seeking revenge, prosecutors said.
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Two deaths in an August arson fire at a home in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood have now been ruled homicides—61-year-old Tommie Darling and 58-year-old Danny Darling.
The aftermath of a fatal fire in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on Aug. 27, 2016. | Chicago Fire Department
Two bodies were found after the fire in the 5400 block of South Laflin was extinguished about 2 a.m. Aug. 27, Chicago Fire Department officials said at the time. They were identified as Tommie Darling, who lived in the home; and 55-year-old Doris Anderson, whose home address was unknown.
Autopsy results for Tommie Darling were initially pending, but eventually found he died of thermal injuries and inhalation of products of combustion due to a house fire. His death was ruled a homicide, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Anderson’s cause and manner of death have not yet been released.
A third person who lived at the home, Danny Darling, was pronounced dead at 11:15 a.m. Oct. 8 at Stroger Hospital, according to the medical examiner’s office. An autopsy found he died of complications from thermal injuries from the fire, and his death was ruled a homicide.
Investigators with CPD’s Bomb and Arson Unit determined someone intentionally started the blaze, and have classified the case as a homicide investigation, police said. No one has been charged as of Monday.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
