Homicide Watch Chicago

By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Dion Robinson | Chicago Police

Dion Robinson faces one count of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, and one count of unlawful use of a machine gun by a felon, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.

Gonzalez, 25; and a 22-year-old passenger were driving around the neighborhood about 6 p.m. March 30 because the younger man was test-driving a car that Gonzalez wanted to sell him, prosecutors said at Robinson’s bond hearing Thursday.

During the test drive, the younger man saw Robinson driving a light-colored car and “mean mugging” them, prosecutors said.
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By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times

Timothy McShane | Cook County Sheriff’s Dept.

Seeing an inebriated patron leave a West Town bar, Stokowski, 33, pleaded with the stranger who got behind the wheel: “You don’t want to do this.”

But Timothy McShane ignored Stokowski’s cries and hit the gas pedal, as Stokowski clung to the SUV in a desperate attempt to stop the intoxicated motorist.

Stokowski died when he crashed onto the pavement and was run over on March 22, 2014.

On Wednesday, Cook County Judge Lawrence Flood sentenced McShane to 16 years in prison, calling the rash actions that led to Stokowski’s death “outrageous and extreme.”
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Lanorris Webster man was shot to death Wednesday afternoon in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side.

Officers responding to a call of a person shot in the 3300 block of West Ohio about 1:40 p.m. found the 34-year-old Webster with a gunshot wound to the left chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Webster was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:15 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the 3500 block of West Belle Plaine Avenue.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Eighteen-year-old Lewis Johnson was fatally shot on the block where he live in West Englewood on Wednesday night.

The teen was shot several times in the abdomen about 8:10 p.m. in the 7200 block of South Marshfield, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Johnson, who lived in the same block, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 8:43 p.m., authorities said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times

Brandon Homan | Chicago Police

First he told detectives the boy may have choked on his own vomit; then he said the baby could have rolled off an air mattress; or that he may have dropped him on the floor and smothered him by accident, Assistant State’s Attorney Matthew Howroyd said.

Holman wasn’t done.

The 34-year-old also proposed that he might have rolled over his son while they were sleeping; or that he may have squeezed Bryson when he was crying; or the baby rolled out of his car seat and fell on the ground.

Bryson suffered a subdural hemorrhage, multiple broken ribs and a bi-lacerated liver, Howroyd said.
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By ASHLEE REZIN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Alicia Johnson | Chicago Police

Harris, 51, was walking in a crosswalk about 11:15 p.m. May 28 in the 7900 block of South Stony Island Avenue when he was struck by a southbound red Chevrolet Impala, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The car sped away after the crash, police said.

Harris, of the 7900 block of South Essex, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died at 2:34 a.m. May 29, according to the medical examiner’s office. An autopsy found he died of multiple injuries due to the crash, and his death was ruled an accident.
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By JORDAN OWEN and RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times

Ross Feiwell | Chicago Police

Ross Feiwell, 59, was charged with first-degree murder for the June 14, 2015, stabbing death of 49-year-old Thomas Sawyer, authorities said at the time.

Feiwell was setting up his makeshift “house” in a bus shelter in the 4400 block of North Broadway when Sawyer approached with a wooden pole, prosecutors said. Feiwell, armed with a metal chain, warned Sawyer to “steer clear” before the two men started fighting around the bus shelter.

After Feiwell was able to move the wooden stick away from Sawyer, he allegedly stabbed him in the neck. Feiwell then hit Sawyer with the stick while he was on the ground lying in a pool of blood, prosecutors said.
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By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Christopher Shoji | Cook County Sheriff’s Department

Christopher Shoji, 28, pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder before Judge Joseph Claps, according to Cook County court records.

Shoji stabbed the 24-year-old Morales to death on the morning of Oct. 8, 2013, authorities said at the time.

Shoji, Morales and a female friend were drinking in the woman’s apartment in the 2000 block of West Warner when Morales and Shoji started arguing about the marijuana plant Shoji was growing in his mother’s backyard, prosecutors said.
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By JEFF MAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Chicago Sun-Times file photo

The week’s latest homicide was a 43-year-old man found shot to death Sunday night in the West Chatham neighborhood and an autopsy ruled his death a homicide. Officers performing a well-being check about 11:30 p.m. found Anreco D. Nichols unresponsive in his home in the 8100 block of South Harvard, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Nichols suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:41 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

A 33-year-old man has been charged with reckless homicide for a hit-and-run crash that left 57-year-old Carmen Maria Vanegas dead and her husband seriously injured Sunday morning in Avondale. Jason Missak was also charged with two counts of leaving the scene of an accident involving injury or death, all felonies, according to police.

Missak was driving a white Jaguar with Illinois plates “DO R DI” in the 3200 block of Belmont Avenue about 7 a.m. Sunday when he ran a red light at Kedzie Avenue, police said. The Jaguar hit a Chevrolet that was northbound on Kedzie, sending it spinning into two other cars in oncoming traffic, police said.
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A man was found fatally shot in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side early Saturday has been identified as 35-year-old Anthony Howard.

Officers responding to a call of a person shot found Howard unresponsive in the alley of the 200 block of North Laramie about 2:50 a.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Howard, of the 100 block of South Parkside, was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:06 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

He died of a gunshot wound from the neck to the head, and his death was ruled a homicide, an autopsy showed.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire