A 25-year-old man fatally shot Friday afternoon while playing dice in the Back of the Yards neighborhood has been identified as Jeremy Clark.
He was playing dice about 4:30 p.m. on the sidewalk in the 5000 block of South Elizabeth when another male walked up, pulled a gun and opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The shooter then ran away.
Clark, of the 5700 block of South Loomis, was shot in the neck, and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:11 p.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A man fatally shot last week in West Englewood has been identified as Eric Burgin, and police and prosecutors say the man who shot him and another man is Camron Howard.
Camron Howard | Chicago Police
Burgin, 28; and a 38-year-old man were sitting on Burgin’s grandmother’s porch about 10:30 p.m. Thursday in the 6400 block of South Damen when Howard walked up to them and asked to buy some marijuana, police and Cook County prosecutors allege.
When Burgin said he did not have any, Howard pulled a gun and started shooting, Chicago Police said at the time.
Burgin was shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene 10:56 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived on the same block where the shooting happened.
The older man was shot in the left leg, and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition was stabilized, police said.
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A man who was found shot to death in a car in the Austin neighborhood early Sunday has been identified as 41-year-old Frederick Johnson.
Officers responding to a call of shots fired at 5:08 a.m. in the 900 block of North Massasoit found Johnson in the driver seat of a car with two gunshot wounds to the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:34 a.m., authorities said. Johnson lived in the 5300 block of West Crystal.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Wondale Collier was killed in a shooting near a party early Sunday in the East Garfield Park neighborhood that also left two women wounded.
Police investigate after a fatal West Side shooting early Sunday. | Network Video Productions
Officers responding about 1:30 a.m. to a call of a shots fired in the 700 block of North Ridgeway found two people with gunshot wounds. Both said they heard shots and felt pain, according to Chicago Police.
Collier, 55, was shot twice in the chest; and a 35-year-old woman was shot in the left leg, authorities said.
Collier, of the 700 block of North Lawndale, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:09 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
An East Garfield Park neighborhood block is decorated for a party near the scene of a fatal shooting early Sunday. | Network Video Productions
The woman’s condition was stabilized at Stroger Hospital, police said.
Another woman, 19, later showed up at Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the ankle, police said. She was listed in good condition.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A man who was shot to death early Sunday in Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood gas station has been identified as 30-year-old Selton Ellis.
Ellis was standing near the front counter of the station near 72nd and Chicago at 4:27 a.m. when a male entered and shot him multiple times in the torso, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 5:18 a.m., authorities said. Ellis lived in the 7300 block of South Greenwood Avenue.
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Bond was denied Saturday for a man charged with fatally stabbing Jessica Renee Hampton as the two argued on a CTA Red Line train Thursday afternoon in Greater Grand Crossing.
Arthur S. Jones | Cook County Sheriff’s Dept.
, 29, faces first-degree murder charges for the slaying of the 25-year-old Hampton about 12:30 p.m. on a southbound train near 47th Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Jones stabbed her repeatedly during an apparent argument over a child, police allege. Hampton, of the 6600 block of South Laflin, was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:15 p.m., authorities said.
Passengers on the train called 911 to report the stabbing, and an officer was already near the 47th Street Red Line stop as the train pulled up, CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. The suspect stepped off the train, saw the officer and surrendered. He was taken to St. Bernard Hospital with minor injuries suffered during the attack, police said.
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Trayvon Wilson was washing his car behind his home in the Gage Park neighborhood Saturday evening when someone with a gun shot him multiple times.
The 20-year-old Wilson was washing the car about 7:15 p.m. in an alley in the 5800 block of South Maplewood, authorities said.
That’s when someone came up to him and fired a gun repeatedly, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Wilson, who lived on the same block as the shooting, suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the back, authorities said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:41 p.m.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested for the death of 311 operator Yvonne Nelson, shot last month outside a Starbucks near police headquarters at 35th and State.
Yvonne Nelson | Facebook
The boy was arrested by Chicago police and the U.S. Marshals Service acting on a warrant issued last month, police said. The charges first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm.
The boy was 15 on May 20, when the murder was committed, and will initially appear in juvenile court. Authorities are trying to have him charged as an adult.
The boy has a criminal history, including arrests for several armed robberies, and was on probation at the time of the shooting, police said.
Police said Nelson was leaving Starbucks after buying coffee, when the teen got out of a car a block away and started chasing a man, a documented gang member, down the street with a gun.
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A 17-year-old boy has been charged with fatally shooting Latrell McMahon and wounding another man earlier this month in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
Latrell McMahon | Facebook
faces one felony count each of first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm for the June 18 shooting, according to Chicago Police
McMahon, 18; and a 19-year-old man were in the first block of South Springfield about 1:30 a.m. when they were shot, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
McMahon was shot in the abdomen and was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:56 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 1800 block of South Fairfield.
The other man was shot in the right leg and was taken in good condition at Mount Sinai Hospital, police said at the time.
Freeman was ordered held on a $200,000 bond Saturday, according to court records. He is next scheduled to appear in court Monday.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A 19-year-old man charged with shooting Kenneth Renaldo Brown to death in March in Englewood is behind bars without bond.
Marcus Harris | Chicago Police
was charged with one felony count of first-degree murder for the March 15 shooting, according to Chicago Police
Brown, 31, was standing outside with a group of people in the 7000 block of South Morgan about 11:30 p.m. when several males walked up and someone opened fire, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
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