Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES and LUKE WILUSZ
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Prominent Chicago psychotherapist Dr. Margaret L. Shanahan and her husband, popular retired teacher and therapist Dr. Robert Moore, were found shot to death in an apparent murder-suicide in their Hyde Park neighborhood home Saturday morning.

Associates in the psychology and higher education field were saddened and stunned by the news.

“Chicago Theological Seminary is deeply saddened by the deaths of Dr. Margaret Shanahan and Professor Robert Moore,” a statement from the seminary said. “Professor Moore was a valued member of the Seminary’s faculty from 1977 until his retirement from full-time teaching in 2012.”

A post on the seminary’s Facebook page Sunday read: “The Chicago Theological Seminary community, alumni, and friends are invited to a time of prayer and reflection in remembrance of Professor Robert Moore and Dr. Margaret Shanahan on Monday…”

Officers assisting the Chicago Fire Department with a well-being check in the 1400 block of East 54th Street found a 65-year-old woman and 73-year-old man with gunshot wounds to the head at 9:49 a.m., according to Chicago Police. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
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Eric D. Knox was killed and two security guards were wounded in a shooting in the University Village neighborhood early Saturday that witnesses are blaming on the guards.

The three were shot about 3:40 a.m. in the 1300 block of West Hastings, police said. Witnesses said the security guards pulled up to a large party outside the ABLA-Robert Brooks Homes before shots were fired.

Knox, 24, was shot multiple times in the back, and was driven by friends to University of Chicago Hospital. He was pronounced dead there at 3:50 a.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1300 block of North Keeler.

The car was left outside the emergency room entrance, where a crowd gathered outside the hospital and several people cried and held each other. Others waited together in small groups on the sidewalk.
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Michael A. Brown of south suburban Matteson died after being shot Saturday evening in the Park Manor neighborhood on the South Side.

Just after 6 p.m., someone in the 7300 block of South Champlain heard gunfire and came out to find Brown with a gunshot wound to the chest inside a vehicle, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The 23-year-old Brown had been talking to another male, who pulled out a gun and shot him, police said.

Brown was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 6:58 p.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 3200 block of Holden Circle in Matteson.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Eugene Singleton was shot to death early Monday in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.

Officers responded about 1:30 a.m. to a call of a person shot in the 7300 block of South University. They found the 22-year-old Singleton lying in the gangway, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Singleton was shot in the head and back, and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:18 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 700 block of East 84th Place.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By JEFF MAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

At least 23 people died from gunshot wounds in Chicago last week, including a popular Mexican singer who had moved to the city just three years ago, a young man gunned down a block from his home in front of a church where Mass was being conducted; and a man who seemed to have posted a video of his murder to Facebook as it happened.

The week’s last homicide was a 21-year-old man was shot to death on Lake Shore Drive late Sunday, according to Chicago Police. He was in a vehicle in the 600 block of South Lake Shore Drive when shots rang out and he was struck in the lower back.

He was driven to the first block of East 35th Street, where he was abandoned, police said. Officers responding to that block about 10:40 p.m. found him lying on the ground. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he later died. His name had not been released as of Monday afternoon.

Another 21-year-old man took himself to an Englewood hospital after being shot on the South Side Sunday evening, but died before he was able to tell anyone where the crime occurred.

Otis Richmond showed up at St. Bernard Hospital at 326 W. 64th St. at 6:50 p.m. and was pronounced dead at 7:08 p.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Police said he was shot in the abdomen, but did not know when or where the shooting occurred.

Earlier Sunday, police said a high-powered assault rifle was used to gun down a 22-year-old man outside a Catholic Church that was holding Mass at the time.
Salvador Suarez was walking near 46th and Hermitage when a light-colored vehicle drove up and an individual started firing shots from inside the car, police said. The shooting happened about 1:30 p.m outside Holy Cross Church. Suarez tried to run, but was hit multiple times with gunfire, and pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
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By MITCH DUDEK and SIMONE ALICEA
Chicago Sun-Times

Police believe a high-powered assault rifle was used Sunday afternoon to gun down 21-year-old Salvador Suarez outside a Back of the Yards neighborhood Catholic church that was holding Mass at the time.

The victim “was walking eastbound on West 46th street when a vehicle—described as a light-colored Saturn four-door, possibly green or beige or light colored—drove up and an individual started firing shots at him from inside the car,” Chicago Police Chief of Detectives Gene Roy said at a press conference at the scene of the shooting in the 4600 block of South Hermitage.

The shooting happened about 1:30 p.m outside Holy Cross Church. The victim tried to run but was hit multiple times with gunfire, Roy said.

Suarez, who lived just a block away in the 4500 block of South Hermitage, was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:05 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
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Otis Richmond showed up at a hospital in Englewood on Sunday evening, and died less than 20 minutes later. Now Chicago Police are trying to find where and when the shooting occurred.

The 21-year-old Richmond took himself to St. Bernard Hospital at 326 W. 64th St. after being shot, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He arrived in the ER at 6:50 p.m. and was pronounced dead at 7:08 p.m., according to medical examiner’s office.

Richmond lived in the 5200 block of West Harrison, but as of Monday morning, police did not know when or where the shooting occurred.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Carlton Hall was shot to death Saturday evening in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.

Hall, 30, was riding in a vehicle about 8:20 p.m. southbound in the 7600 block of South Eggleston when another vehicle pulled alongside. Someone inside the other vehicle then opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Hall, of the 7000 block of South Wolcott, suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the torso and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 8:38 p.m., according to authorities.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By MAUDYNE IHEJIRIKA
Chicago Sun-Times

This is a story about a Chicago cop, a mom, an SUV and an Englewood school that’s had to come to grips twice in the past year-and-a-half with the killing of a student off-campus.

Englewood’s Johnson College Prep was left reeling when Demario Bailey, a 15-year-old honor student, was shot to death on Dec. 13, 2014, gunned down when he and his twin brother, Demacio Bailey, who were on their way to school for a basketball game, were jumped and robbed. Authorities have charged four teenagers with first-degree murder.

The school community again was shaken last month by the May 14 killing of 15-year-old track star De’Kayla Dansberry, stabbed to death by a 13-year-old girl whose mother gave her a switchblade for a street brawl, according to police and prosecutors, who have charged both with murder.
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Simone Alicea and Jeff Mayes
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Alejandro “Jano” Fuentes, a popular Mexican singer who moved to Chicago after appearing on Mexico’s version of “The Voice,” died Saturday, two days after he was shot on his birthday during an attempted carjacking in Brighton Park.

Fuentes, 45, died Saturday after being shot in his car in the 4300 block of South Archer at 10:15 p.m. Thursday, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The medical examiner’s office identified him as Alejandro Fuentes-Rosas.

Police initially said he was dead at the scene, but friends later said he placed on life support until family members could arrive from Mexico.
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