Authorities have officially ruled the death of a 2-year-old boy, believed to be Kyrian Knox of Rockford, found dismembered in the Garfield Park Lagoon in September a homicide.
Kyrian Knox | Rockford police
The Cook County medical examiner’s office is still awaiting
DNA tests to formally identify the toddler, whom detectives have named as Kyrian Knox, but an office spokeswoman announced Friday that his death was ruled a “homicide by unspecified means.”
In late November, investigators said they’d hit a wall in the investigation as the last known people to have seen the boy alive were not cooperating with police.
The body parts were found in the lagoon Sept. 5, about two weeks before Kyrian was reported missing from a residence in Rockford where he’d been staying with Kamel Harris, a male friend of his mother; and Harris’ girlfriend, Danyelle Foggs. Kyrian’s mother, Lanisha Knox, told investigators she left her son there went to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to start a new job.
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Frankie Gutierrez was found with fatal gunshot wounds Saturday morning in a vehicle in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side.
Officers found the 25-year-old unresponsive in the passenger’s seat of a vehicle shortly after 7 a.m. in the 800 block of North Avers, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Gutierrez was pronounced dead on the way to Mount Sinai Hospital, authorities said. He lived in the 6900 block of West Medill.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Brandon Miles was shot and killed Sunday morning while driving in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side.
The 29-year-old Miles was driving a car when someone opened fire from another dark-colored car about 6:15 a.m. in the 1000 block of West 50th Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Miles was taken to Stroger Hospital with gunshot wounds to his back and neck, and died there at 7:11 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 7900 block of South Ingleside.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A 23-year-old man fatally shot Friday afternoon in what police called a domestic incident in North Lawndale has been identified as Lamont Alexander.
Alexander was fighting with two people on a sidewalk in the 4100 block of West 21st Street just before 4 p.m. when one of the other two pulled out a gun and shot him in the head, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Alexander, who lived on the same block, was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:24 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. He died of a gunshot wound to the head and his death was ruled a homicide.
Police called the shooting domestic-related, but gave no other details.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By MITCHELL ARMENTROUT
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Leevert Anderson | Chicago Police
Bond was denied Saturday for a Southwest Side man accused of shooting and killing 24-year-old
Jerald Strong last month in North Lawndale.
Leevert Anderson, 28, faces first-degree murder charges for the Nov. 3 attack in the 3200 block of West 15th Street, according to Chicago Police.
Anderson got into an argument with Strong about 1 p.m. that day, pulled a gun, and shot Strong in the head and neck, authorities said at the time.
Strong was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died within the hour, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1300 block of South Christiana.
Anderson, of the 1500 block of South Sawyer, was ordered held without bond, according to Cook County Circuit Court records. He is due back in court Dec. 17.
Sixty-four-year-old Jose Arreola was killed in a Gage Park neighborhood shooting Friday evening on the Southwest Side.
Officers found Arreola unresponsive on a sidewalk at 7:09 p.m. in the 5100 block of South Troy. He had been shot multiple times in the abdomen and legs, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Arreola, who lived in the 5100 block of South Albany, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he later died, authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Gabriel Claudio died Tuesday, one day after being shot in the head near the CTA’s Kimball Brown Line station Monday evening in the Albany Park neighborhood.
The 22-year-old was standing outside in the 4700 block of North Kimball about 5:30 p.m. when someone walked out of an alley and started shooting, striking him in the head, arm and thigh, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Claudio was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he died at 6:43 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. His home address was unknown.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Anthony Bowers was found shot to death Thursday morning in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.
The 63-year-old Bowers was found with a gunshot wound to the head about 6 a.m. in the 12000 block of South Michigan Avenue, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Bowers, who lived on the same block, was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Sixteen-year-old Tysean D. Rollins Smith was shot to death early Tuesday in the East Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.
Tysean was found unresponsive at 1:07 a.m. in the hallway of an apartment building in the 800 block of East 83rd Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He had been shot in the chest and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 1:52 a.m., authorities said.
He lived in the 8000 block of South Ingleside.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Antoine Thorne | Chicago Police
A man faces a murder charged and his brother is on the run for the fatal shooting of
Alston Ronnie McNeal in October in Austin, an incident prosecutors say started after McNeal’s girlfriend was inappropriately touched at a party.
Antoine Thorne, 25, was charged with first-degree murder Wednesday, according to Chicago Police.
McNeal and Thorne were at a birthday party at an apartment in the 1100 block of North Lawler in the early morning hours of Oct. 10 when Thorne grabbed the butt of McNeal’s girlfriend, Cook County prosecutors said in court. McNeal and Thorne argued briefly, then McNeal walked away.
Thorne’s brother walked up and asked what happened, prosecutors said.
Thorne then walked up to McNeal with a gun, prosecutors said. They started wrestling over the gun, which went off without striking anyone.
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