An 18-year-old man has been charged with the fatal shooting of Joshua Rayborn, a father of two and rising hip-hop star, killed outside his home in the Bridgeport neighborhood on the South Side.
Emilio Chavez | Chicago Police
Emilio Chavez, 18, is charged with first-degree murder for the Sept. 18 slaying of 28-year-old Rayborn, who performed under the moniker Rate YK, according to authorities.
Rayborn was standing on the sidewalk in front of his apartment in the 2900 block of South Arch Street at 11:34 p.m. that night, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Shots were fired and Rayborn was struck in the chest, authorities said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Read more
Elizabeth Kennedy was killed and two men were wounded in a stabbing attack Saturday night in the Marquette Park neighborhood, an incident police called a “domestic altercation” on the block where she lived.
The 36-year-old Kennedy was stabbed in the chest at 5:42 p.m. in the 3300 block of West Marquette, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
She was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she was pronounced dead at 7:40 p.m., authorities said.
Kennedy lived on the same block, a generally quiet area on the Southwest Side. A source said Kennedy may have been trying to break up the altercation when she was stabbed.
A 34-year-old man was stabbed in the arm and was taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where his condition was stabilized, police said. Another man, 75, also suffered a stab wound to the arm, but declined to be taken to a hospital.
Police said charges are pending against a “male offender,” who ran away after the fight but was taken into custody a short time later.
Area Central detectives are conducting a homicide investigation.
Edward Duling was found shot to death late Wednesday in a parking lot on the block where he lived in the South Shore neighborhood.
Officers responded at 11:15 p.m. to a call of a person shot and found the 29-year-old lying in a parking lot in the 7800 block of South Cornell, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Duling had suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the head and body, and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. He lived on the same block.
Area South detectives are conducting a homicide investigation.
At least 16 people were killed during the week of October 9-15 in Chicago, including two school employees who died in separate incidents in the Far South Side Rosemoor and Far North Side Rogers Park neighborhoods.
Soimone ‘CoCo’ Mckay | Facebook
Simone D. McKay, 26, was shot to death early Sunday morning on her porch in the 9600 block of South Forest in the Rosemoor neighborhood, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. She was shot in the head and was pronounced dead at 12:13 a.m., authorities said.
McKay was a part-time employee of the CPS Office of Early Education and was a senior biology major at Chicago State University. She was also a single mother of two young children.
Another shooting victim, Cynthia Trevillion, 64, was caught in gang crossfire in the 6900 block of North Glenwood in the Rogers Park neighborhood at about 6:30 p.m. Friday, authorities said.
Cynthia Trevillion | Chicago Waldorf School Community
Trevellion and her husband were walking to meet friends for dinner when she was struck in the head and neck. She was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where she died at 7:18 p.m.
Tevellion was a math teacher at the Chicago Waldorf School, where she had taught for the last 14 years.
Other homicides last week included:
A 26-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday afternoon in the South Side Gresham neighborhood. Reno D. Wooldridge suffered gunshot wounds to the chest and arm at 12:33 p.m. in the 8300 block of South Justine, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Wooldridge was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died half an hour later. He lived on same block as the shooting.
Terrence Lipsey was fatally shot Monday night in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
The 19-year-old Lipsey was standing on the sidewalk in the 200 block of North Mason when another male walked up and opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Lipsey was struck in the head, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died at 4:37 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said.
He lived about a block away from where he was shot.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Justin Gilbert and Trevail ‘Trey’ Ridgell were shot to death Saturday night when someone in a passing vehicle opened fire on their van, which was parked in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.
The 17-year-old Ridgell and 19-year-old Gilbert were sitting in the parked van about 10:25 p.m. in the 8900 block of South Union, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examioner’s office.
Someone fired shots at them from a passing gray sedan and both were struck multiple times. They were pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.
Both victims lived about a block away from the scene of the shooting.
Devon “Bam Bam” Caffie was walking Sunday morning in the South Shore neighborhood when two men got out of a car and started shooting, leaving the 22-year-old dead.
Caffie was walking about 11:10 a.m. on the sidewalk in the 6700 block of South Jeffery, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Two male suspects got out of a Ford car nearby and opened fire, police said.
Caffie suffered gunshot wounds to the chest, arm and back of his head; and was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:38 a.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.
The shooters were described as black males in gray clothing, police said. No one was in custody as Area Central detectives investigate.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Simone ‘Coco’ Mckay | Facebook
Simone D. McKay, a young mother of two, was found shot to death early Sunday on the front porch of her home in the Rosemoor neighborhood, just blocks away from Chicago State University, where she was a student.
Officers responded to a call of a person shot shortly after midnight and found the 26-year-old unresponsive on the porch of her home in the 9600 block of South Forest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
She had been shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:13 a.m., authorities said.
Her neighbors described hearing a single loud shot. Some thought it could be thunder or a lightning strike, but soon after, the block was filled with police vehicles and investigators began knocking on doors.
One man, who watched the scene from his porch, said he couldn’t believe that the victim was the “clean cut, put together woman” he frequently saw coming and going. Read more
Valentino Cockerham, was shot to death Saturday afternoon in the South Shore neighborhood.
Police responded to shots fired in the 7000 block of South Chappel at 2:29 p.m. and found the 24-year-old Cockerham unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:46 p.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Cockerham lived in the same neighborhood as the shooting.
Reno D. Wooldridge was fatally shot on the block where he lived in the South Side Gresham neighborhood Sunday afternoon.
The 26-year-old Wooldridge was shot in the chest and arm at 12:33 p.m. in the 8300 block of South Justine, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was transported to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 1:10 p.m., authorities said.
Area South detectives are conducting a homicide investigation.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
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