By ALEXANDA KUKULKA
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Phalyon McFarthing | Chicago Police
Sixty-one-year-old man
Algie Ferguson died Thursday after he was assaulted in an elevator in the Rogers Park neighborhood about a week earlier.
At 11:45 p.m. Jan. 23, Ferguson was arguing with 45-year-old Phalyon McFarthing in an elevator in the 6800 block of North Sheridan Road when McFarthing hit, kicked and sodomized Ferguson, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office and the Chicago Police.
Ferguson, of the 6800 block of North Sheridan Road, was taken to Presence Saint Francis Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:43 p.m. Thursday, authorities said. An autopsy found he died from complications from multiple injuries sustained during an assault, and his death was ruled a homicide.
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By RUMMANA HUSSAIN and PATRICK JUDGE
Chicago Sun-Times
Donnell Flora | Cook County sheriff’s office
said he has been like a father to his teenage niece since his brother was gunned down.
But instead of being a role model, Flora, who is paralyzed from the waist down from a 2009 shooting, coaxed the girl toward a life of violence when he handed her the gun Cook County prosecutors said she used to kill 14-year-old Endia Martin.
On Saturday, a jury found Flora guilty of first-degree murder in Endia’s death and of attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of Lanekia Reynolds, who was wounded in the April 28, 2014, incident.
“We believe justice was served today for Endia,” said Kent Kennedy, her stepfather. “And we’d like to give thanks to God that the jury saw what really transpired.”
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Armonte Hooper | Chicago Police
A man was ordered held without bond Saturday for the fatal shooting of
Courtney Taylor last week at a hotel near McCormick Place.
Armonte Hooper, 23, was charged with one count of first-degree murder for the shooting that left the 25-year-old Taylor dead in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place at 2233 S. King Drive, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
About 2:20 a.m. Jan. 23, Taylor and Hooper were among several people fighting in the hotel lobby when Hooper pulled out a gun and shot Taylor in the head, authorities said.
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By MITCHELL ARMENTROUT
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Carlos Wilson | Chicago Police
Bond was denied Saturday for an Illinois Institute of Technology student charged with fatally beating fellow student
Jermiron “Jay” Morris with a tree branch early Thursday on the school’s Bronzeville campus.
Carlos Wilson, 43, faces first-degree murder charges for the 5 a.m. attack in the 3000 block of South Wabash, according to Chicago Police.
Wilson was returning to campus with 3the 6-year-old Morris when they got into a fight that turned fatal, authorities said. A police source said Wilson used a tree branch to kill the younger man.
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Damon Allen Jr. was shot to death in West Englewood early Saturday.
Officers found the 19-year-old lying on the ground in the 5900 block of South Bishop about 1:05 a.m., Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He was shot in the head and chest.
Allen, who lived in the 1400 block of North Central, was taken to St. Bernard Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Charneise SIlas | Chicago Police
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MITCHELL ARMENTROUT
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A woman has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of her neighbor, 62-year-old Robert Howard, on Tuesday in University Village. And police say more arrests may follow,
Charneise Silas, 45, faces one felony count of aggravated battery for the Tuesday attack in the 1000 block of West Maxwell, according to Chicago Police.
Howard was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head about 6:40 p.m. near his home on the block, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
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A man who was fatally shot in the Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side on Monday has been identified as 39-year-old Torrance Dortch.
He was shot in the 1000 block of East 100th Place at 4:37 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office and Chicago Police.
Dortch, who lived on the same block, suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 5:56 p.m., authorities said.
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Seventy-one-year-old Allen R. Levin was found beaten to death Wednesday afternoon in his Albany Park neighborhood home on the Northwest Side.
Officers conducting a well-being check about 2 p.m. at the home in the 4800 block of North Ridgeway found Levin lying on the ground with visible signs of trauma to the head, neck and body, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Levin, who lived in the home, was dead at the scene, authorities said. An autopsy found he died of multiple injuries suffered in an assault, and ruled his death a homicide.
As of Friday afternoon, no one was in custody and police were continuing to investigate.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Donald Arrington | Chicago Police
By
JEFF MAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
What started out a sexual hookup between two men last summer in the Irving Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side ended with Lloyd A. White bludgeoned and stabbed to death, then later burned and robbed, prosecutors claimed on Friday.
Donald Arrington, 31, is charged with first-degree murder for the death of 50-year-old White on Aug. 31, 2015, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
White’s body was found in the basement of a building around 11 a.m. in the 3900 block of North Spaulding Avenue, police said. An autopsy showed he died of multiple sharp-force and blunt-force injuries.
In court Friday, assistant state’s attorney Karisa Flores said the two men met at a Golden Nugget restaurant in Irving Park three days prior to the body being found. They had dinner together, and agreed to meet again the next night.
On Aug. 29, after another dinner at the same restaurant, the men returned to White’s home and had sex, Flores said.
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By DANIEL BROWN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Donald Arrington | Chicago Police
A South Side has been charged with murder for allegedly bludgeoning Lloyd A. White to death and then setting him on fire last summer in the Irving Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Donald Arrington, 31, of the 6900 block of South Dorchester Avenue, is charged with first-degree murder for the death of the 50-year-old White on Aug. 31, 2015, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
White’s body was found in the basement of a building around 11 a.m. in the 3900 block of North Spaulding Avenue, police said. Arrington had fatally struck White with a blunt object during an altercation before setting him on fire and fleeing the scene, according to police.
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