Homicide Watch Chicago

At least 12 people were killed last week in Chicago, including a pair of teenage boys, and three people who were killed while standing out a home on the Far South Side.

A 14-year-old boy was fatally shot Tuesday afternoon in the South Chicago neighborhood. Just after 5 p.m., he was standing on the sidewalk in the 8000 block of South Manistee when another person walked up, pulled a weapon and fired shots, according to Chicago Police.

The boy, identified as Melvin James, suffered gunshot wounds to the abdomen and left leg, and was taken Comer Children’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2 a.m. Wednesday, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He lived in the same neighborhood where he was shot.

A day earlier, a 15-year-old boy was shot to death during an argument in the Southwest Side Lawndale neighborhood. Antwon Green was on the sidewalk at 7:49 p.m. in front of a home in the 1500 block of South Drake when he started arguing with a group of people, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

During the argument, someone pulled out a gun and shot him in the back, police said. Green was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later, authorities said.

The mass shooting occurred Saturday night when two women and a man were shot to death in outside one of the victim’s homes in Roseland. The group was standing behind a parked vehicle about 11:40 p.m. when two people came out of an alley near the 11400 block of South Yale and fired multiple shots, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
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Jawon Jermaine Garrett, known to friends as “Doola,” was fatally shot early Wednesday on the Near West Side.

Just after midnight, the 40-year-old Garrett was with a group of men in the 2300 block of West Madison, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Two male suspects walked up and began firing shots, police said.

Garrett suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body, and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:41 a.m., authorities said.

He lived in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.

No one was in custody early Friday as Area Central detectives conduct a homicide investigation.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Isaac L. Hughes-Allen was found shot to death early Tuesday in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.

Officers responding to reports of a person down at 4:42 a.m. in the 5000 block of West Monroe found the 32-year-old lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the face, according to Chicago Police and the Cook county medical examiner’s office.

Hughes-Allen was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:55 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the Northwest Side Belmont Cragin neighborhood.

The circumstances of the shooting were not known as Area North detectives conduct a homicide investigation.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Angelo Terrell of west suburban Bellwood was fatally shot Tuesday afternoon in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.

The 25-year-old Terrell was standing outside at 3:38 p.m. in the 300 block of South Kilbourn, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A male suspect walked up, pulled out a handgun and opened fire, police said. The shooter was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt.

Terrell was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead less than 30 minutes later at 4 p.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

No one was in custody early Wednesday as Area North detectives conduct a homicide investigation.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Seventeen-year-old Antonio Monteza was shot to death early Tuesday in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side.

The boy was hanging out with friends at a gas station about 2:40 a.m. in the 7500 block of North Sheridan, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A male suspect walked up and pulled a gun, according to police. Monteza tried to run, but was shot in the head and abdomen in the 1400 block of West Howard.

He was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead at 3:26 a.m., authorities said.

He lived a few blocks away in the same neighborhood.

No one was in custody early Wednesday as Area North detectives conduct a homicide investigation.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN and JACOB WITTICH
Chicago Sun-Times

Raymond Boyle (left) and Dalton Stropes | Cook County Sheriff’s Dept.

Raymond Boyle, 23, and Dalton Stropes, 22, both pleaded guilty second degree murder for the June 29, 2015, fatal stabbing, according to Cook County court records. They were initially charged with murder, mob action, and aggravated battery with a weapon, all felonies, but accepted a plea deal with the 8-year sentences.

Boyle allegedly enlisted his friends, Stropes and Escamilla, to help lure a 19-year-old man he feuded with over Facebook into an alley in the 2100 block of West Windsor Avenue in Lincoln Square so they could beat him, according to prosecutors.

Boyle allegedly approached their target in the street, and Escamilla and Stropes emerged once they ended up in the alley, prosecutors said during a previous court hearing.

The man who was cornered took out a 2-inch pocketknife to scare them but put it away, prosecutors said. Escamilla then punched the man, and Boyle and Stropes followed.
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Tyson White, Jacquell Mosley and Dominic N. Morris were standing near a vehicle Saturday night near Morris’ home in the Far South Side Roseland neighborhood when the gunfire started.

Witnesses reported hearing dozens of gunshots and when it was over, all three friends were dead in the street.

They had been outside about 11:40 p.m. when two people came out of an alley near the 11400 block of South Yale and fired multiple shots, according to Chicago Police.

White, 36, whose home address wasn’t known, suffered a gunshot wound to his neck, authorities said.

The 26-year-old Mosley and 30-year-old Morris were both struck multiple times, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.

Morris lived on the same block as the shooting, while Mosley lived in the West Pullman neighborhood.

All three were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

There was no one in custody as of Tuesday as Area South detectives conduct a homicide investigation.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Steven Reid was fatally shot Sunday night in the Far South Side Roseland neighborhood.

The 22-year-old Reid was found about 8 p.m. with a gunshot wound to the head by officers responding to a report of a shooting in the 11100 block of South Michigan Avenue, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Reid was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 11:03 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the West Pullman neighborhood.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By BLAIR PADDOCK
Homicide Watch Chicago

Darius Gavin | photo courtesy Angie Bowie

“He was going to go back to school—he was about to have his birthday,” Bowie said. “This all happened right in front of my door.”

Four days before his 21st birthday, Darius Gavin was shot to death on July 24 in the Park Manor neighborhood. Another sister was grazed by the bullet.

The pair were standing in the 7100 block of South Rhodes around 10:20 p.m., according to Chicago Police. A silver Nissan Altima pulled up and three males got out, then opened fired.

Gavin suffered a gunshot wound to the head and both siblings were taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Gavin was pronounced dead at 11:06 p.m., while his sister’s condition was stabilized, authorities said.
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A man who was shot to death Thursday morning in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood has been identified as 18-year-old Terrence Johnson.

Officers responding to reports of shots fired at 7:24 a.m. found Johnson in the 3800 block of West Flournoy, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He had suffered gunshot wounds to the arm and neck.

He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 7:53 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. Johnson lived in the West Side Austin neighborhood.

Police said the shooting was believed to be related to the selling of narcotics.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire