Carlos Cortez was shot to death early Saturday on the street where he lived in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood.
Officers found the 22-year-old Cortez unresponsive about 2:15 a.m. on the street in the 5300 block of South Seeley, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He had been shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at Holy Cross Hospital at 2:37 a.m., police said. He lived on the same block as the shooting.
The circumstances of the shooting were not known as Area Central detectives conduct a homicide investigation.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Patrick A. Thompson Jr. was found shot to death inside a car early Friday in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood.
Officers found the 30-year-old Thompson with a gunshot wound to the head about 2:30 a.m. in the 1100 block of South Troy, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was pronounced dead at the scene,
The circumstances of the shooting were not known, and no one was in custody, according to police.
Thompson lived near the United Center on the Near West Side.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Erick Louis Charles Jr. of northwest suburban Mount Prospect was shot to death Wednesday night in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
The 25-year-old Charles was standing on a porch about 9:45 p.m. in the 6300 block of South Carpenter, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Shots were fired and Charles suffered a gunshot wound to his head. He was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
No one was in custody as of Friday morning.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
James Posey Jr. was shot to death early Wednesday during a fight in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
The 21-year-old was involved in some type of confrontation about 5:17 a.m. in the 5200 block of West Gladys, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Posey was was shot in the head when another man pulled out a gun and fired shots, police said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
No one was in custody Thursday as Area North detectives conducted a homicide investigation.
Posey lived in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
His aunt wrote on Facebook: “21 years gone, the smile and pure heart gone, the ambition and funny sense of humor gone, gentleman respectable young man gone, supportive and helpful brother and man gone, quiet chill dude gone, his life taken so it’s gone. But what I can and will say is all the good bad happy sad proud moments and memories and milestone he achieved in life and we received will never be gone.”
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
At least 8 people were killed in Chicago the week of August 28-Septmerber 03, including four on the first three days of the long Labor Day holiday weekend.
Sun-Times file photo by Ashlee Rezin
The final homicide of the week was also the 470th in the city this year, well below the same date in 2016, when the 500th homicide of the year was recorded on Sept. 4, according to Chicago Sun-Times records.
This year’s 470th homicide came Sunday night, when one man was killed and another wounded in a shooting in the Belmont Central neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Felipe Bautista Jr., 26, and a 29-year-old man were standing on the sidewalk about 10:40 p.m. outside Bautista’s home in the 5900 block of West Belden when a male suspect walked up and opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Bautista was shot in the torso, and was pronounced dead at the scene less than 20 minutes later, authorities said. He lived about a block away from the shooting. The older man was shot in the abdomen and taken in critical condition to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, police said.
In other homicides last week:
- Another man was shot to death Sunday night in a vehicle in the Washington Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side. Former Julian High School football player Jeremy Tang, 20, was found suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest about 8:40 p.m. in the driver’s seat of a vehicle in the 800 block of West 102nd Street, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Tang, who lived in the Beverly neighborhood and attended Miles College in Alabama, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 9:53 p.m.
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The first day of school turned out to be the last for a popular South Side boy when Melvin Jameswas fatally shot Tuesday afternoon in the South Chicago neighborhood.
At 5:02 p.m., the 14-year-old was standing on the sidewalk in the 8000 block of South Manistee, according to Chicago Police.
Another person walked up to him, pulled out a weapon, and fired shots, police said.
Melvin suffered gunshot wounds to the abdomen and left leg. He was taken Comer Children’s Hospital, where he died at 2 a.m. Wednesday, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
He lived just a couple of blocks away in the same neighborhood where the shooting occurred.
Police believe the shooting was gang-related. Family members said Melvin was never in a gang, but the A and B student had been harassed by gang members in the neighborhood.
A popular boy, Melvin was known for working around the neighborhood and rescuing stray animals, friends said.
No one was in custody as of Thursday morning.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Gregory McDaniels Jr. was shot and killed Monday night in the LeClaire Courts neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
The 38-year-old McDaniels was on the sidewalk at 10:55 p.m. in the 4400 block of South Lawler, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Two people walked up to him and started shooting, police said.
McDaniels was shot in the chest, head and leg; and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:29 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the Vittum Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
McDaniels, a father of two, was a Corliss High graduate who also attended Olive-Harvey College and worked as a truck driver.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By NADER ISSA
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Ashley Shanta-Nicole Harrison | family photo
was shot to death by a man who then turned the gun on himself Monday evening in the West Side Austin neighborhood, authorities said.
Both shootings occurred at 6:36 p.m. in the 4900 block of West Washington, according to Chicago Police.
The woman, identified as the 26-year-old Harrison of the Lawndale neighborhood, was shot multiple times, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
“Ashley was a beautiful person inside in out,” her sister, Shawanda Harris said.
The man, identified as 34-year-old Brian A. Jones, suffered an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, authorities said. He lived in the same block where the shooting occurred.
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Fifteen-year-old Antwon Green was shot to death Monday evening during an argument in the Southwest Side Lawndale neighborhood.
The boy was on the sidewalk at 7:49 p.m. in front of a home in the 1500 block of South Drake, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He got into an argument with a group of people, and during the encounter, 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.
He lived in the Far South Side Pullman neighborhood, and would have been returning to classes starting Tuesday at Corliss High School.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By ANDY GRIMM
Chicago Sun-Time
Tororicius Berry | Cook County Sheriff’s Dept.
On a sunny afternoon two weeks ago,
Tororicius Berry walked up to
Kejuan Thomas on a South Side basketball court and shot the 16-year-old in the head, then stood over Thomas and continued firing, prosecutors said Friday.
Multiple witnesses, some as young as 10, told police they saw Berry walk out from behind the Bradley Park fieldhouse toward the courts on the afternoon of Aug. 16, Assistant State’s Attorney Jamie Santini said at a bond hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
Berry fired at Thomas from close range, striking the teen in the head, the prosecutor said.
“As Kejuan Thomas lay mortally wounded on the basketball court (Berry) stood over the victim and continued to fire bullets directly into the 16-year-old, unarmed victim as multiple victims looked on,” Santini said.
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