Homicide Watch Chicago

Kenneth Noble was killed and another man wounded in a shooting early Wednesday in the South Side Englewood neighborhood.

The men, ages 34 and 59, were getting into a van about 2:30 a.m. in the 5700 block of South Morgan when someone in another vehicle shot at them, police News Affairs Officer Ronald Gaines said.

The older man, identified as Noble, was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene at 2:56 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Noble lived in the 11000 block of South Wentworth.

The 34-year-old was shot in the shoulder and was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition, Gaines said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Laquan McDonald (left) and Jason Van Dyke

Less than 30 seconds.

That’s how long Cook County prosecutors said Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke was on the scene before he repeatedly opened fire on a knife-wielding Laquan McDonald, who neither lunged toward Van Dyke nor uttered a word when he asked to drop the weapon.

Sixteen shots in 14 to 15 seconds—and for all but one or two of those seconds, McDonald was already lying wounded on the pavement that night, Oct. 20, 2014.

Van Dyke started shooting his semi-automatic pistol at the 17-year-old just six seconds after he got out the passenger side of his squad car on Pulaski Road and 41st Street, Assistant State’s Attorney William Delaney said. Van Dyke was standing 10 feet away from McDonald.

None of the other seven police officers who were there had fired a shot, Delaney said.
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Authorities identified the man shot to death Monday evening in the Portage Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side as 24-year-old George Carrero.

About 6 p.m., Carrero was walking in the 5600 block of West Byron when he heard gunfire and realized he’d been shot, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Carrero, who lived in the 3500 block of North Linder Avenue, was shot in the back and was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead, authorities said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Tamar Moore died Sunday evening, less than an hour after he was shot in the West Side Austin neighborhood.

Moore, 35, was sitting in a vehicle parked in the 5400 block of West Race Avenue about 7:35 p.m. when someone walked up and started shooting, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Moore, of the 5400 block of West Haddon Avenue, was shot repeatedly in the body and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:34 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Alexander Scott | Cook County sheriff’s office

A man has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for the fatal shooting of Eric Woods last year in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
Alexander Scott, 31, was found guilty on Feb. 12 of first-degree murder after a bench trial before Judge Charles Burns, according to Cook County court records.

Scott confronted the 25-year-old Woods at Woods’ home in the 900 block of South Springfield Avenue and shot him in the chest on Feb. 27, 2014, authorities said at the time. Woods died at 5:02 p.m. that day at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Eric Woods

Judge Burns sentenced Scott to 55 years in prison during a hearing Monday, according to court records. He will receive credit for 635 days served in the Cook County Jail, where he has been held without bond since his arrest.

Lamar Battle was killed in a drive-by shooting Saturday night in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

The 26-year-old Battle was outside in the 6200 block of South Rockwell Street about 8:30 a.m. when a small gray car drove by and someone inside fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The car took off southbound after the shooting.

Battle, who lived on the same block, was shot multiple times in the head and neck, and was dead at the scene, authorities said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Juan Harris was shot to death early Saturday morning in the South Side West Englewood neighborhood.

Harris, 37, was talking to his girlfriend in the 1200 block of West 71st Place at 1:10 a.m. when three people walked up and someone shot him in the left armpit, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Harris, of the 5500 block of South Peoria, was taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:37 a.m., authorities said.

He died of multiple gunshot wounds, according to an autopsy.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By JEFF MAYES
Homicide Watch Chicago

At least seven people were the victims of gun violence in Chicago last week, but an eighth death that was at first called a homicide by Chicago Police has now been reclassified.

Police initially launched a homicide investigation after 23-year-old Quina L. Jackson died following a report of a domestic disturbance at her Chicago Lawn apartment Friday afternoon

Shortly after noon, officers were called to the building in the 6300 block of South Fairfield, where they found Jackson unresponsive on a couch, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Jackson was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she was died less than two hours later.

Police did not say how she died, and final autopsy results were pending further investigation. But on Sunday, police said they homicide investigation has been reclassified as an ongoing death investigation, and a 34-year-old woman taken into custody at the scene was released without charges.

A man died after he was shot Sunday evening in the West Side Austin neighborhood.

Tamar Moore, 35, was sitting in a vehicle parked in the 5400 block of West Race Avenue about 7:35 p.m. when someone walked up and started shooting, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
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The investigation into the death of 23-year-old Quina L. Jackson inside her Chicago Lawn apartment building Friday afternoon has been reclassified as a “death investigation” after police initially considered it a homicide.

Officers were called about noon to a domestic dispute in the building in the 6300 block of South Fairfield, where they found Jackson unresponsive on a couch, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Jackson, who lived in the building, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she was pronounced dead at 1:51 p.m., authorities said.

Police did not say how she died, but initially said a homicide investigation had been launched. Final autopsy results are pending further investigation, the medical examiner’s office announced Saturday.

Late Sunday, police said the investigation had been reclassified as an “ongoing death investigation.” The 34-year-old woman who had been taken into custody at the scene Friday was released without charges.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Jacques Barnes was shot to death when someone jumped out of a car and started shooting Sunday afternoon in Englewood.

The 20-year-old Barnes was in a vehicle in the 1000 block of West 71st Street at 2:50 p.m. when another vehicle pulled up and someone got out and fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Barmnes was shot in the head and body, and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 5:28 p.m., authorities said.

Barnes lived in the 4700 block of South Wabash.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire