By ASHLEE REZIN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Chicago Police investigate a vehicle in the 6400 block of North Rockwell late Memorial Day, after a 39-year-old suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the neck. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Police believe an argument between two women led to the fatal shooting of 39-year-old Johan Jean late Monday in the West Rogers Park neighborhood.
A source said the shooting stemmed from a dispute between two women. One of them has a child with Jean and the other was his girlfriend. Both women were armed, and Jean was eventually shot during the argument.
Officers responding to a call of shots fired about 11 p.m. found Jean lying in a gangway in the 6400 block of North Rockwell, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Jean, who lived in the 100 block of North Ashland in Evanston, was shot in the neck and was taken to Presence Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead at 11:44 p.m., authorities said.
Officers could be seen investigating in an alley and gangway, where a red Jeep was parked within the crime scene. Neighbors reported hearing between four and five gunshots. No weapons were recovered from the scene.
Police said no one was in custody as of Tuesday morning as Area North detectives conduct a homicide investigation.
James Taylor was fatally shot Monday night in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side.
Chicago Police investigate in the 5100 block of South Calumet, where a 44-year-old man was shot to death Monday night. | Network Video Productions
Officers responding to a call of shots fired about 11 p.m. found the 44-year-old lying on the ground near his vehicle in the 5100 block of South Calumet, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Taylor, who lived in the 6500 block of South Ellis, had been shot in the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
Witnesses at the scene were not cooperating as Area Central detectives conduct a homicide investigation.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Ashley Harrison | Chicago Police
Bond was set at $250,000 for a woman charged with returning fire her fiance, Garvin Whitmore, was shot to death Saturday evening in the South Side Fuller Park neighborhood.
Ashley Harrison, 26, was sitting in a the driver’s seat with the 27-year-old Whitmore in the passenger seat about 5:20 p.m. in the 200 block of West Root. Then someone walked up to the vehicle and shot Whitmore in the head, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Whitmore, of the 5800 block of West 63rd Place, was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:29 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said.
Harrison got out of the vehicle, retrieved a weapon and fired it several times in the air as the shooter ran away. She then threw the weapon to the ground, according to court records.
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Damien Cionzynski of northwest suburban Harwood Heights was shot to death in the Portage Park neighborhood Saturday morning.
Cionzynski, 23, was inside a gas station about 5:15 a.m. in the 6300 block of West Montrose when two men walked in. The three men argued, and one of them took out a gun and shot Cionzynski, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
He was hit in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. He lived in the 4400 block of North Nashville Avenue in Harwood Heights.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Garvin Whitmore was shot to death Saturday evening in the Fuller Park neighborhood on the South Side.
Whitmore, 27, was sitting in the driver’s seat of a vehicle with a woman about 5:20 p.m. in the 200 block of West Root. Someone then walked up to the vehicle and shot him in the head, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The woman who had been sitting in the vehicle got out and returned fire as the shooter ran away, police said. No one else was injured.
Whitmore, of the 5800 block of West 63rd Place, was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:29 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said.
As of Sunday morning, charges were pending against the woman because she fired shots, but no one was in custody for the homicide, police said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Kevin Larry was shot to death Friday morning in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side.
The 22-year-old was found unresponsive near 56th and Wabash about 7:30 a.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Larry lived in the 6100 block of South Cottage Grove, authorities said.
Area Central detectives have launched a homicide investigation.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Mark Lindsey was fatally shot late Friday in the Ashburn neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Police said a man was shot to death int he Ashburn neighborhood on the Southwest Side late Friday. | NVP News
Just before 11 p.m., the 25-year-old was sitting in a vehicle parked in the 3700 block of West 75th Place when a gunman walked up and opened fire, according to Chicago Police.
Lindsey, shot repeatedly across the chest and body, tried to drive away, but crashed into another vehicle on the block, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 11:34 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Fifteen-year-old Veronicca Lopez was killed and a man was wounded in a shooting on a busy stretch of Lake Shore Drive in the Lincoln Park neighborhood early Saturday.
A 15-year-old girl and man were shot as they were on Lake Shore Drive near Fullerton early Saturday. The girl died of her injuries, police said. | Sam Charles/Sun-Times
The girl was a passenger in an
SUV being driven by a 28-year-old man in the 2400 block of North Lake Shore Drive just before 1:30 a.m. That’s when a black Nissan pulled alongside and someone inside opened fire, Chicago Police said.
They took themselves to Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, but the girl was later transferred to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 2:59 a.m., authorities said. She lived in the 5100 block of West Fullerton.
The man was shot in the arm and suffered a graze wound to the head, police said. His condition had stabilized.
Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Lopez does not appear to be the intended target of the shooting.
The two people in the car with her during the shooting were documented gang members, and investigators believe the shooting was either gang- or road rage-related.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
Eddie Howlett | Chicago Police
A South Side man was ordered held on $1 million bond Friday for the murder of
Kimberly Schnackenberg, who was found beaten to death in a Back of the Yards alley last month.
Eddie Howlett, 24, was captured on surveillance camera walking with the 42-year-old Schnackenberg and punching her, before she was severely beaten by others, including a man wielding a baseball bat, Cook County prosecutors said.
But defense attorney John Miraglia told Judge James Brown the video from April 21 was “sketchy” and that Schnackenberg’s roommate, who identified Howlett as the man last seen with her, is far from credible.
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By ANDY GRIMM and ASHLEE REZIN
Chicago Sun-Times
Violence erupted inside Powell’s Barbershop, an institution in Englewood. l;eaving one man dead and another injured Thursday afternoon. | Andy Grimm/For Sun-Times
was killed and another man wounded in a shooting at Powell’s Barber Shop, a staple in the Englewood neighborhood, on Thursday afternoon.
The men were inside the shop in the 1100 block of West 63rd Street at 3:11 p.m. when a male suspect outside fired shots into the establishment, according to Chicago Police.
The 38-year-old Sias suffered a gunshot wound to the arm and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:15 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
A relative said Sias, of the Gerald Sias, of the 7200 block of South Carpenter, was the father of five children, several of whom he brought to Powell’s regularly for trims.
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