Michael Cunningham and another men died after being shot Monday morning in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.
The men were in the 3000 block of West Jackson at 11:47 a.m. when a gunman walked up, pulled out a gun and fired multiple times, according to Chicago Police.
Both men were shot multiple times and were taken to Stroger Hospital, police said.
Cunningham, 35, died at the hospital at 1:05 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 4000 block of West Wilcox.
The other man, 26, was also taken to Stroger, where he was later pronounced dead, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. His name had not been released as of Tuesday afternoon.
Sixteen-year-old Eddy Brooks was killed and another teenager injured in a shooting Friday morning in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
Brooks and a 17-year-old boy were sitting on a porch in the 3500 block of West Chicago about 10:30 a.m. when someone walked up and opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Brooks, who lived in the 6300 block of South Morgan, was shot in the head and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:49 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.
The other teen suffered gunshot wounds to the thigh and calf, police said. He took himself to Norwegian American Hospital, where he was treated and released.
Fifteen-year-old Ladarrius Jackson died early Monday, about 10 days after being shot in the Englewood neighborhood.
Jackson was walking in the 6800 block of South Sangamon about 8 p.m. April 29 when someone walked up and opened fire, striking him repeatedly in the leg and abdomen, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Family members said he was walking to visit his god brother who had just moved in nearby when he was shot 12 times.
Jackson was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 4:05 a.m. Monday, authorities said. He lived in the 6900 block of South Elizabeth Street.
No arrests have been made for the shooting, police said Monday night.
A Crowd Rise page and a GoFundMe page have been started to help the family pay medical and funeral costs.
At least 21 people, including four boys 16 and younger, died as a result of violence last week in Chicago. Eight of those died over a Mother’s Day weekend during which more than 50 people were shot, in spite of pleas from women’s and church groups to put down the guns.
And the number of homicides could go up. The body of woman was in the back of a car in an auto impound lot on the Far South Side on Saturday, and officials have yet to release name of autopsy results.
Mother’s Day did not prove to be a deterrent to violence as many were hoping, with four fatal shootings reported.
A 16-year-old boy was shot to death Sunday afternoon in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. Nathan Hicks, 16, was found in the street about 3:20 p.m. in the 3400 block of West Arthington with multiple gunshot wounds, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4 p.m. He lived in the 4700 block of West Gladys.
A man was killed and a woman injured in a shooting Sunday afternoon in West Garfield Park. Deshawn Thompson, 20, and a 19-year-old woman were sitting on a porch just before 1 p.m. in the 200 block of South Karlov when someone walked up and opened fire, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Read more
Deshawn Thompson was killed and a woman was injured in a Mother’s Day shooting in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
Thompson, 20, and the woman were sitting on a porch just before 1 p.m. in the 200 block of South Karlov when someone walked up and opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Thompson was shot multiple times and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:45 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the same block as the shooting.
The woman was also taken to Mount Sinai with a graze wound to the back, police said. She was in good condition Sunday.
Thompson was one of four people to die in shootings in Chicago on Mother’s Day.
Kourtney Young was shot and killed in the Chatham neighborhood Sunday morning on the South Side.
The 21-year-old suffered multiple gunshot wounds about 8:45 a.m. in the 7600 block of South Prairie. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:35 a.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Young lived in the 7300 block of South King Drive, authorities said. He was one of four people to die in shootings on Mother’s Day in Chicago.
Police did not have further details about the shooting.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Keon Lewis was shot to death while riding in a vehicle on Lake Shore Drive early Sunday on the North Side.
Officers responded at 5:08 a.m. to a crash in the northbound lanes near Foster and found the 35-year-old Lewis in the back seat with a gunshot wound to the lower back, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he died at 5:46 a.m., authorities said. His home address was unknown.
Lewis was riding in the car with two other people when another vehicle pulled alongside them and someone inside opened fire, authorities said. He was the only person shot.
Devan Watson died last week of injuries he suffered in an Avalon Park neighborhood drive-by shooting nearly two weeks ago that also left two other people wounded.
About 10:45 p.m. April 21, Watson, 24, was riding in a vehicle in the 7600 block of South South Chicago Avenue when someone opened fire from a passing vehicle, according to Chicago Police.
Watson was shot in the head and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Aanother man, 27, was shot in the chest, was also taken to Northwestern and listed in critical condition, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Watson was pronounced dead at the hospital at 3:10 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said. He lived in the 1000 block of East 41st Place.
A 21-year-old woman suffered a graze wound to the right arm and was taken to Jackson Park Hospital. Her condition stabilized, police said.
No one was in custody for the shooting as of Monday morning.
Najee WIlliams was found shot to death late Saturday on a sidewalk in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
Officers responding to a call of a person shot about 10:50 p.m. in the 400 block of South Cicero found the 27-year-old lying on the sidewalk, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Police said he was 26.
Williams, who lived in the 1000 block of North Austin, was taken to Loretto Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:45 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.
An autopsy found he died of a gunshot wound to the back, and his death was ruled a homicide.
Carl Handley who was found fatally shot in the back seat of car early Saturday in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
The 30-year-old was found shot in the chest in a car in the 7400 block of South Union about 1:40 a.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Handley, who lived in the 100 block of East 115th Street, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 2:14 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.
An autopsy found he died of a gunshot wound to the chest and his death was ruled a homicide.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
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