Homicide Watch Chicago

Aaron Marquise Brown was shot to death early Tuesday in the Lawndale neighborhood.

Brown, 21, was found at 3:57 a.m. lying on the ground unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the back in the 3800 block of West Roosevelt, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Brown, of the 3300 block of of West Madison, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:49 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

Area North detectives are conducting a homicide investigation.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Mikel Maragh was fatally shot while sitting in a vehicle Tuesday afternoon in the River West neighborhood.

Maragh, 26, was inside a vehicle at 5:12 p.m. in the 1400 block of West Carroll when someone walked up and shot at him, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Maragh, who lived in the 2000 block of West Jackson, was shot in the head, and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:45 p.m., authorities said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Kenneth Carrington was killed and a 13-year-old girl was wounded in a shooting Tuesday night in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.

About 10 p.m., the 40-year-old Carrington and the girl were standing on the sidewalk in the 7300 block of South University when shots rang out and both were struck, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Carrington was shot in the neck, and was taken to Jackson Park Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:22 p.m., authorities said. He lived on the same block as the shooting.

The girl suffered a graze wound to the left leg and was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where she was listed in good condition, police said.

She appears to have been struck by a stray bullet, according to police.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By MITCHELL ARMENTROUT
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

From left: Lithia Henderson, Marhsalla Kelly, Marshall Henderson | Cook County Sheriff’s Dept.

Jackson died five days after the Aug. 4 beating in the 4600 block of West Gladys, according to Cook County prosecutors and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Lithia Henderson, 41; Marshall Henderson, 21; and Marshalla Kelly, 23, have been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery.

About 9:30 p.m. Aug. 4, Jackson went with a 20-year-old relative to confront another man that he had been feuding with on Facebook over their respective girlfriends, prosecutors said.

They met his rival, who was accompanied by the Hendersons and Kelly, who was one of the girlfriends at the center of the feud, prosecutors said.
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A man shot to death during an armed robbery in the West Garfield Park neighborhood Monday morning has been identified as 33-year-old Chavaris D. Guider.

Guider was found lying in the street with a gunshot wound to the head about 4 a.m. in the first block of North Kilbourn, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died at 10:31 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 1700 block of North Parkside.

Police said he was walking on Kilbourn with a 49-year-old man when someone walked up and announced a robbery. The robber took money from the 49-year-old before shooting Guider.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Kirino Fabian man was stabbed to death by his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend early Tuesday in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood, authorities said.

About 3:30 a.m., a 19-year-old Fabian was picking up his ex-girlfriend from her new boyfriend’s house in the 5000 block of West Dickens when the boyfriend stabbed him, according to Chicago Police.

The 19-year-old suffered multiple stab wounds and was taken to Community First Medical Center, where he died at 4:55 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Fabian lived in the 2900 block of North Mango.

A 20-year-old man was stabbed in the right arm while trying to defend Fabian, police said. He was taken to the same hospital in good condition.

Police said a man in his 20s was arrested for the stabbing, and charges were pending Wednesday morning.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help the family with funeral expenses.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By JEFF MAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Sun-Times file photo

By the time it was over, at least 28 people were killed in Chicago violence last week.

The week got off to a violent start with nine people shot to death on Monday, the single highest death toll in the city for one day since July 5, 2003.

And with at least nine more people shot over a weekend that saw more than 60 people shot, it ended up the bloodiest week in Chicago this year, bringing the 2016 homicide total to at least 440.

• The son of a Chicago Police officer was killed and another man wounded in a shooting early Sunday in the Wrightwood neighborhood. Arshell Dennis III, 19, was a journalism student at St. John’s University in New York City who was home for his mother’s birthday and planning to return to school on Sunday.
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A man shot to death early Sunday in the Austin neighborhood has been identified as 24-year-old Ladrell Brown.

Officers responding at 5:11 a.m. to a call of a person down in the 5200 block of West Ferdinand found Brown lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Brown was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:41 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 500 block of North Leclaire.

No one was in custody for the shooting as of Tuesday morning.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A man found shot to death Sunday morning in the Park Manor neighborhood has been identified as 21-year-old Anthony Nelson.

Officers responding to a call of a person down about 9:05 a.m. in the 6700 block of South Wabash found Nelson with multiple gunshot wounds, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Nelson, of the 1400 block of West 78th Street, was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:30 a.m., authorities said. An autopsy ruled the death a homicide.

No one was in custody for the shooting as of Tuesday morning.

A 16-year-old boy was killed on a same block nine days earlier.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help with funeral expenses.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Vincent Winkfield died Monday morning, three days after he was shot in the head in the Austin neighborhood.

Winkfield, 28, was standing on the front porch of a home in the 400 block of North Lavergne at 1:09 p.m. Friday. A man got out of a dark-colored SUV and shot him in the head, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Winkfield, who lived in the 1100 block of North Monticello, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:19 a.m. Monday, the medical examiner’s office said.

Police said Tuesday morning no one has been charged in connection with the shooting as Area North detectives conduct a homicide investigation.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire