Kenneth Whitney died Monday, more than five weeks after he got into a fight with his wife and ended up stabbed in the chest in their Auburn Gresham home, according to authorities.
About 10 p.m. July 28, a fight escalated between the 59-year-old Whitney and his wife at the home in the 7800 block of South May, and the 52-year-old woman stabbed him in the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Whitney was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 5:05 p.m. Monday, authorities said. An autopsy Tuesday did not rule on cause or manner of Whitney’s death, with final results pending further investigation.
Yvette Davis was arrested at the time of the stabbing, and investigators recovered the weapon, police said. She was charged with a misdemeanor count of domestic battery, but charges may be upgraded after Whitney’s death.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A 20-year-old man has been charged with murder for the fatal shooting of 44-year-old Albertano Medrano, shot as he and his wife drove to the grocery Sunday afternoon in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.
Victor Vazquez | Chicago Police
Victor Vazquez faces one felony count of first-degree murder, according to Chicago Police.
About 4 p.m., Medrano was driving in the 4500 block of South Hermitage when three people in a white van began to harass him, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
A family member said Medrano and his wife had just left home to go the store to buy food.
Medrano kept driving away from the van, when one of the passengers inside opened fire, striking him in the head, neck and back, authorities said. His vehicle then crashed into three other vehicles before coming to a stop. Read more
About 7:15 p.m. near Ogden Park in the 1200 block of West Marquette, Hamilton, 47, was walking his dog when someone in a vehicle started shooting, striking him in the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The shots also struck the 24-year-old Reavley in the chest as he ran away from the gunfire. Police said the shots were fired from Elizabeth Street and into the park, where the victims were struck on Black Drive west of the tennis courts.
Both men were taken to Stroger Hospital, authorities said. Hamilton, of the 6600 block of South Loomis, died at 8:01 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. Reavley died at 8:40 p.m. He lived in the 9600 block of South Calumet. Read more
A man shot to death Sunday evening in the Back of the Yards neighborhood has been identified as 19-year-old Korry Rogers.
Officers responding at 6:07 p.m. to a call of a person shot in the 5200 block of South Sangamon found Rogers suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the body, according to Chicago Police.
He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:24 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Rogers lived in the 5600 block of South Throop.
An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds, and his death was ruled a homicide.
LaShawn Carr, a 33-year-old father, was shot to death just three blocks from his home in the Englewood neighborhood Monday evening.
Carr was on a sidewalk in the 900 block of West 58th Street when a light-colored car pulled up and someone inside it shot him in the back about 6:45 p.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Carr, known to friends as “Ducky,” was taken to St. Bernard Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:07 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the 5900 block of South Emerald.
By JEFFMAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
At least 16 people died from gunshot wounds in Chicago last week, capped by a bloody Sunday during which five were killed. And the murder total could rise, pending autopsy results on two bodies found inside a burning van on the Southwest Side.
The week’s final homicide was a 17-year-old boy shot to death Sunday night in the South Shore neighborhood. Jamel Rollins was standing outside about 10:30 p.m. in the 7800 block of South Cornell when two males walked up and opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Rollins was shot in the back, and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about 90 minutes later, according to the medical examiner’s office. An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds.
Korry Rogers was shot to death Sunday evening in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Officers responding at 6:07 p.m. to a call of a person shot in the 5200 block of South Sangamon found the 19-year-old suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the body, according to police. Rogers was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:24 p.m. An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds.
Roommates found 22-year-old Enrique D. Morales shot to death Monday afternoon in the driveway of their Brighton Park neighborhood home.
Morales was found about 1:30 p.m. lying in their driveway in the 4500 block of South Whipple with a gunshot wound to the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:45 p.m., authorities said.
David Baldwin was killed and another man wounded in a shooting Monday morning in the Englewood neighborhood.
Baldwin, 24, was shot in the head in the 6800 block of South Emerald about 9:30 a.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 2:58 p.m., authorities said. Baldwin lived in the 1100 block of West 67th Street.
A 26-year-old man was shot in the thigh and grazed across the head. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized. Police said he was not cooperating with investigators.
A SWAT team was called after a report that a person involved in the shooting may have run into a building on the block, police said. The SWAT team cleared the building by 12:30 p.m. but no one was inside.
A 44-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday afternoon in the Back of the Yards neighborhood as he and his wife drove to the store to get groceries.
About 4 p.m., Albertano Medrano was driving in the 4500 block of South Hermitage when three people in a white van began to harass him, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
A family member said Medrano and his wife had just left home to go the store and buy food.
Medrano kept driving away from the van, when one of the passengers inside opened fire, striking him in the head, neck and back, authorities said. His vehicle then crashed into three other vehicles before coming to a stop.
Medrano, who lived in the 1800 block of West 46th Street, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:30 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help with funeral expenses for Medrano, a Mexican immigrant who worked at Las Palmas restaurant in Wicker Park.
Seventeen-year-old Jamel Rollins was shot Sunday night in the South Shore neighborhood and died about an hour later at a hospital.
The boy was standing outside about 10:30 p.m. in the 7800 block of South Cornell when two males walked up and opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Rollins, of the 5800 block of West Fullerton, was shot in the back and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:46 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.
An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
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