By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Terrance Anderson | Illinois Dept. of Corrections
A South Side man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for fatally stabbing
Aaron Knox during a fight in the New City neighborhood in 2013.
Terrance Anderson, 28, was found guilty of second-degree murder on March 17 after a bench trial before Judge Timothy Joseph Joyce, according to Cook County court records.
Anderson and the 29-year-old Knox got into a fight about 9:30 p.m. June 28, 2013, in the 1000 block of West Garfield Boulevard. At some point, Anderson grabbed a knife and stabbed Knox multiple times, authorities said at the time.
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By LUKE WILUSZ and ASHLEE REZIN
Chicago Sun-Time Wire
Chicago Police investigate in Foster Park after one man was shot to death and four others were injured when someone opened fire on the group, which was filming a rap video at the time. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
What started out as a rap video filming session turned deadly when gunshots rang out, leaving
Damond A. Dawson dead and four other people wounded early Tuesday in a Gresham neighborhood park.
A group was filming a music video in Foster Park in the 1400 block of West 84th Street about 2 a.m. when someone approached and started shooting, police News Affairs Officer Ronald Gaines said. The shooter then ran away.
Dawson, 23, was shot in the back of the head and was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:10 a.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 8400 block of South Justine Street.
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Courtney Copeland, 22, is described as “the glue that kept everyone together.” He was a rising entrepreneur with big dreams and a bigger heart. He was shot March 4 and his mother Shapearl Wells is working endlessly to find his killer. | Photo Provided
By BRITTANY REYES
Homicide Watch Chicago
A knock on the door on the morning of March 4 surprised Shapearl Wells, and when Chicago Police officers told her to call Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center about her son, Courtney Copeland, she knew something was wrong.
“My heart immediately dropped because police don’t just come to your door asking you to call the hospital unless it’s something serious,” Wells said. “When we called the hospital, they said they couldn’t give us any information over the phone, and I completely lost it because I knew it had to be bad.”
When the family arrived at the hospital, they were immediately brought to the family room and Wells said at that point, she knew her son was gone. They sat for 30 minutes awaiting news, and after the doctor came in to confirm Copeland’s passing, the family was told the cause of death: another senseless shooting.
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By JEFF MAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
At least six people were fatally shot in Chicago last week, and a woman died more than eight years after being severely beaten by her boyfriend, who is serving a prison sentence for the attack.
A 32-year-old man was fatally shot early Sunday in the North Lawndale neighborhood. Officers responding to a call of person shot about 1:25 a.m. found Fredrick Lee Blount lying in the street near the corner of West 13th Street and South Central Park Avenue.
The victim had suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Family members said Blount has a 1-year-old daughter, 12-year-old son and three sisters.
Two men were killed and a third wounded when a man who was not allowed inside a party came back and started shooting late Friday in Englewood.
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By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times
Jose Ortiz | Chicago Police
A man charged with the fatal shootings of
Richard Rodriquez and
Jossean Rueda last summer in the West Side Austin neighborhood was ordered held without bond Sunday.
Jose Ortiz, 31, faces two counts of first-degree murder for the June 7, 2015, shootings, according to Chicago Police.
About 3:50 a.m., Rodriquez and Rueda, both 19, were driving in the 1600 block of North Cicero when a light-colored vehicle pulled alongside them and someone inside fired shots, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said at the time.
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By ANDY GRIMM
Chicago Sun-Times
Travion Lockett | Chicago Police
A man charged with the murder of 21-year-old nursing student
Daysha Wright was ordered held without bond Friday.
Travion Lockett, 21, was arrested in Milwaukee on a murder warrant for the March 9 Near West Side slaying of Wright, who had a 2-year-old son, Cook County prosecutors said at a Friday bond hearing.
Wright was riding home with a friend from a memorial gathering around midnight when they spotted Lockett in the 2200 block of West Maypole, prosecutors said.
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By ASHLEE REZIN
Chicago Sun-Times WIre
Chicago Police investigate in the 1300 block of South Central Park Avenue, where a 32-year-old man was shot to death early Sunday, April 17, 2016. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
A woman wailed as she looked out of her third-story apartment window early Sunday where
Fredrick Lee Blount had been shot in the street below in the North Lawndale neighborhood.
Officers responding to a call of person shot about 1:25 a.m. found the 32-year-old lying in the street near the corner of West 13th Street and South Central Park Avenue, according to Chicago Police.
He had suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Family members identified him as Blount, who has a 1-year-old daughter, a 12-year-old son and three sisters.
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Pierre Payne and Andrew H. Haynes were killed, and a third man wounded in a shooting at an Englewood neighborhood party late Friday.
A male, whose exact age was not known, wasn’t allowed into the party, which was held in a garage in the 7400 block of South Eggleston, Chicago Police said.
He came back with a gun about 11:20 p.m. and shot three men, killing one.
The 32-year-old Payne was shot in the chest and was dead at the scene, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1900 block of East 71st Street.
Haynes, 34, was shot several times in the torso was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 2:11 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 0-100 block of West 13th Street.
A 45-year-old was shot in the left hip and was also taken to Stroger Hospital, police said. His condition had stabilized.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Davion Spivey died early Wednesday, two days after he was shot while driving in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
The 19-year-old was driving in the 6000 block of South California Avenue at 7:35 p.m. Monday when someone standing on the sidewalk started shooting. At least one shot went through the back window of the vehicle, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
The shooter then ran off.
Spivey was struck in the head, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:47 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said. He lived in the 7300 block of South Artesian.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By LUKE WILUSZ and DANIEL BROWN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Felix Valentin | Chicago Police
A Logan Square man has been charged with shooting and killing
Angel Ortiz Jr., a bouncer at an Irving Park neighborhood bar, earlier this month.
Felix Valentin, 28, is charged with one count of first-degree murder for the death of the 51-year-old Ortiz on April 2, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Ortiz was working about 11:45 p.m. as a bouncer at Brudder’s Bar and Grill at 3600 North Pulaski when Valentin fired shots from the street into the window, authorities said.
A witness said the bouncer was trying to break up a fight before someone “came around the corner and shot him right in the head–dead point. That’s when everyone started running. The bouncer was, you know, trying to do his job.”
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