Seventeen-year-old Demarius Roseman was fatally shot in the South Chicago neighborhood Thursday night.
Roseman was in the 8000 block of South Escanaba about 10:40 p.m. when someone in a nearby vacant lot shot him, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Roseman, of the 6800 block of South Sangamon, was taken to South Shore Hospital, where he was pronounced dead 25 minutes later, authorities said.
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Demetrius Paskel, known to friends as Meechie, died Thursday, one day after he was shot in the head in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
Officers responded to a person shot in the 4000 block of West Van Buren at 2:26 p.m. Wednesday and found the 19-year-old Paskel with a gunshot wound to the head, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Paskel was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:43 p.m. Thursday, according to the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 7400 block of Washington Street in west suburban Forest Park.
Police said Paskel was standing on the sidewalk when someone walked up, pulled out a handgun and fired shots. The shooter then ran away eastbound.
He was a musician who produced rap videos performing as Money Makin Meech.
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Taylon Hughes was killed and a woman was injured in a shooting last week in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
About 11:05 p.m. Friday, the 26-year-old Hughes was sitting with a 40-year-old woman in a vehicle parked in the 4400 block of West Jackson. That’s when a light-colored van pulled up and someone in the back seat opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Hughes was shot in the head and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6 p.m. Sunday, according to the medical examiner’s office. An autopsy Thursday ruled his death a homicide.
The woman was also shot in the head and later showed up at Stroger Hospital, where her condition was stabilized, police said.
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Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Two people were killed and two more were wounded in a shooting early Thursday in Back of the Yards. | Daniel Brown/Sun-Times
At 12:18 a.m., an altercation broke out in the 800 block of West 50th Place, and someone started shooting, according to Chicago Police.
Childs, 25, was shot in the neck, head and chest; and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:20 a.m., police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. His home address was not known Thursday morning.
Armond, 34, was shot in the neck and was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:34 a.m., authorities said. She lived in the 10900 block of South Vernon.
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Vincent Davis Sr. was killed and a woman was critically injured in a shooting Monday afternoon in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.
Davis, 43; and a 22-year-old woman were sitting in a vehicle at 4:24 p.m. in the 6600 block of South Michigan when someone opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Davis, known as “Vinny,” lived in the 7500 block of South Evans. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 5 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said.
The woman suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was taken in critical condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said at the time.
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Authorities have identified a man who was shot to death last week in the Englewood neighborhood as 24-year-old Kashawn Johnson.
Officers responding at 11:48 p.m. July 18 to a call of a person shot in the 6300 block of South Parnell found Johnson lying in the street with a gunshot wound to the head, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Johnson, who lived in the 400 block of East 109th Street, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:43 a.m. July 19, the medical examiner’s office said. His death was ruled a homicide.
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By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
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William Hill didn’t pull the trigger, but he pointed out 27-year-old Jeremy Rogers to the gunman before Rogers was shot in the head on June 5, Cook County prosecutors said in court.
Rogers, an aspiring rapper who performed as Jay Roc, died more than 10 days later on June 16 at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. An autopsy Friday found he died from a gunshot wound to the head.
The single father of two lived in the 1800 block of South Springfield.
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Keyon Boyd was killed and two other teenagers were wounded in a shooting Tuesday morning in the Austin neighborhood.
The group was standing on the sidewalk, one on a bicycle, in the 100 block of North Laporte Avenue about 11:10 a.m. That’s when at least two males emerged from an alley and fired more than a dozen shots, according to Chicago Police and witnesses. The suspects ran northbound after the shooting, police said.
Boyd, 18, was shot in the shoulder, and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:59 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 200 block of North Leamington Avenue.
A 17-year-old boy was shot in the left shoulder and was also taken to Stroger, police said. A 13-year-old boy was shot in both legs and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. Both of their conditions were stabilized.
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Africa S. Bass, a young mother of two, was shot to death early Wednesday, the day after moving into the South Chicago neighborhood.
Chicago Police investigate a fatal shooting early Wednesday in the 8700 block of South Burley. | Network Video Productions
Bass, who lived on the same block as the shooting, was shot in the back, and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 12:51 a.m., authorities said.
Bass, who neighbors said had just moved into an apartment in the neighborhood Tuesday, leaves behind a 2-year-old daughter and a boy who turned 5 on the day she was killed.
She was reportedly walking to the store when the gunmen opened fire on someone walking ahead of her.
Police said a possible suspect was in custody early Wednesday, but that person was later released without charges as Area South detectives investigate.
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By JEFF MAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
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Unofficially, there have been 378 homicides in the city, according to statistics compiled by the Chicago Sun-Times Wire. If that pace continues, the year’s total could top 700 for the first time since the mid-1990s.
Last week was capped by a weekend in which more than 40 people were shot, five of them fatally.
An uncooperative witness told investigators a newer-model black vehicle approached Chacon and someone inside fired numerous shots, police said. The vehicle then took off northbound after the shooting.
