Homicide Watch Chicago

By DANIEL BROWN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

The death of 2-month-old Bryson Lee Micah Holman in the Southwest Side Ashburn neighborhood has been ruled a homicide, and state child welfare authorities are investigating the infant’s father.

Officers responded to a call of an unresponsive baby at Bryson’s home in the 3200 block of West 83rd Place at noon Saturday, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was pronounced dead there at 12:05 p.m.

An autopsy Sunday found Bryson died of multiple injuries from abuse and ruled his death a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.

An abuse investigation is pending against the boy’s father, Department of Children and Family Services spokeswoman Veronica Resa said Sunday night. DCFS has not had prior contact with Bryson’s family, and the baby’s three siblings do not live with his father, Resa said.

No one was in custody as of early Monday.

A South Side man has been charged with a fatal shooting inside a Portage Park neighborhood gas station over Memorial Day weekend that left Damien Cionzynski dead.

Florin Mulosmani, 24, faces one count of first-degree murder for the attack that happened about 5:15 a.m. May 28 in the 6300 block of West Montrose, according to Chicago Police.

Mulosmani and another man got into a fight at a gas station with the 23-year-old Cionzynski, who was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Police did not say if they thought Mulosmani pulled the trigger.

Cionzynski lived in the 4400 block of North Nashville Avenue in northwest suburban Harwood Heights. Mulosmani is from the 1900 block of South Grove Street, police said.

A judge ordered him held without bond at a Saturday hearing, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office. He is due back in court Monday.

Cionzynski was among six people killed and 63 wounded in shootings over the holiday weekend.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Bond was set at $1 million Sunday for a man charged with the fatal stabbing of Eugene Dan Bailey Jr. on Christmas Eve last year in Roseland on the Far South Side.

Jeremy Givens, 26, got into an argument with 42-year-old Bailey about 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 24, 2015, in the 300 block of West 111th Place and stabbed him in the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Bailey, of the 1200 block of West 115th Street, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 7:51 p.m. that night, authorities said.

Givens, of the 200 block of West 111th Place, appeared in bond court Sunday. A judge ordered him held on a $1 million and he was due back in court Monday, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A 19-year-old suburban man man who was fatally shot last Wednesday night in the West Rogers Park neighborhood has been identified as Kaysar Chako.

He was sitting in a parked vehicle in the 3000 block of West Devon about 9 p.m. when someone exiting a store fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Chako, of the 1900 block of Parkside Drive in northwest suburban Park Ridge, was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:39 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide.

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

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

William Palmer was shot and killed early Saturday near his home in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.

The 32-year-old Palmer was sitting in a vehicle near his home in the 6300 block of South Honore about 5:20 a.m. when a gunman walked up and shot him in the head, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:58 a.m., police said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A 38-year-old man who was fatally shot in the South Side Washington Heights neighborhood early Saturday has been identified as Darnell Hardeman.

He was outside in the 900 block of West 96th Street about 3:15 a.m. when two other people walked up and shot him several times, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Hardeman, of the 9600 block of South Halsted, was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:18 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Dontay Murray Jr. was shot to death early Sunday in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side.

Officers responding to a call of shots fired about 12:50 a.m. found the 21-year-old unresponsive inside a vehicle in an alley in the 7600 block of South Drexel, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Murray was shot twice in the neck, and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Kori Sellers was shot to death in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood Saturday evening.

About 6 p.m., the 20-year-old was sitting in the passenger seat of a car, with another person at the wheel, parked in the 8600 block of South Ashland. Someone walked up, reached into the window and across the driver, and fired multiple shots at Sellers, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Sellers, of the 7900 block of South Sangamon, was shot in the chest and arm, authorities said. The driver took him to St. Bernard Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:52 p.m.

The medical examiner’s office said his name was Kori O. Sellers, but his Facebook page identified him as Kori M. Sellers.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Daniel Alcantana was killed and another man wounded in a shooting Friday in the Northwest Side Logan Square neighborhood.

The attack happened at 6:49 p.m. in the 2900 block of West Armitage, according to Chicago Police.

Alcantana, 20, was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene at 6:59 p.m., police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He lived in the 900 block of North Harding.

The other man, 21, was shot in the leg and was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized, police said. He told investigators he heard shots and realized he’d been hit.

An autopsy Saturday found Alcantana died from a gunshot wound to the chest, the medical examiner’s office said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times

Babette Miller told Chicago Police last spring that her boyfriend had threatened her with a gun after she refused to have sex with him and a neighbor.

While she was filing the domestic abuse report on April 1, Miller also told officers that Robert Keith Simon had slapped her in the face the night before for not performing her “womanly duties,” Cook County prosecutors said in court Friday.

Miller’s bullet-riddled body was found by her parents a few days later, lying face down in bed in the two-bedroom Avalon Park apartment she shared with Simon.

Simon fled to Minnesota following the deadly shooting and turned himself to authorities there soon after, Assistant State’s Attorney Jamie Santini said.

The 45-year-old former Uber driver was brought back to Chicago this week to face charges in Miller’s death.
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