Rashad Taylor was shot to death while driving in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side Friday evening.
At 7:43 p.m., the 24-year-old Taylor was driving southbound in the 7000 block of South Calumet Avenue when two gunmen fired shots from a sidewalk, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Taylor was shot twice in the right ribcage but was able to keep driving two blocks south, where he stopped and his passenger flagged down police.
Taylor, of the 8200 block of South Buffalo, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 9:08 p.m., authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Nienteen-year-old Antonio Williams was shot to death Sunday night in Englewood on the South Side.
Officers responding to a call of a person shot about 8:40 p.m. in the 5700 block of South Union found Williams unresponsive on a sidewalk with gunshot wounds to the leg and chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Williams, of the 6900 block of South Carpenter, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 9:21 p.m., authorities said.
Another man was gunned down in the same neighborhood less than six hours earlier.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Police believe domestic violence may have taken the life of 23-year-old Quina L. Jackson, who was found dead after police responded to a disturbance Friday afternoon in Chicago Lawn.
Authorities launched a homicide investigation after Jackson died following the domestic disturbance at an apartment in the 6300 block of South Fairfield.
Shortly after noon, officers were called to the building and they found Jackson unresponsive on a couch, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Jackson, who lived on the block where she was found, 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. An autopsy was scheduled for Saturday.
A 34-year-old woman was taken into custody at the scene, police said. No charges have been filed.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By RUMMANNA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
Mubashra Uddin | Cook County sheriff’s office
has been depressed since she was accused of dropping her
newborn baby from a window of her family’s eighth-floor Uptown apartment, her lawyers said in court Thursday.
A close friend also said Uddin may have been overwhelmed by the pressure that comes with being raised in a pious immigrant family.
“At that moment she probably wasn’t thinking and she cracked … because the Mubashra I know wouldn’t do something like this if she was in right state of mind,” Uddin’s childhood friend “Nina O” wrote in a letter to Cook County Judge James Brown.
As Uddin stood with her head bowed in court Thursday, her attorney Barry Sheppard urged the judge to set bail for the 19-year-old.
“Standing before you is someone who is heartbroken and sad. … She is a confused, older teenager,” Sheppard said. “She’s extremely contrite. She’s saddened. She’s been crying.”
But after hearing the details of the baby girl’s death, Brown ordered Uddin remain held without bond in Cook County Jail while she awaits trial for murder.
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By ASHLEE REZIN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
An 18-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder for an August shooting in the Altgeld Gardens that left Marlin J. Dixon III dead.
Kimon Johnson | Cook County sheriff’s office
is accused of fatally shooting the 20-year-old Dixon on Aug. 11, authorities said.
At 10:55 p.m., Dixon was walking with a group of people in the 700 block of East 131st Street, while Johnson was on the other side of the street, Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Molly Donnelly said during a bond hearing Thursday.
A vehicle drove down 131st Street and, while it was passing between Johnson and Dixon, Johnson pulled out a gun and fired shots in the direction of the vehicle, authorities said. Dixon and the other people on the street tried to run away, but Johnson continued firing shots.
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By FRANK MAIN and RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
Corey Morgan | Cook County sheriff’s office
A person of interest in the murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was ordered held on a $1 million bond Wednesday on an unrelated charge of being a felon in possession of a gun.
Corey Morgan, 27, of the 7800 block of South Hoyne, was arrested Monday afternoon after he left a Hilton hotel near 95th Street in Oak Lawn, authorities say. Arrested with him was Dwight Boone-Doty, 21, of the 7300 block of South Vernon.
They were stopped in a car on 87th Street in nearby Evergreen Park.
Police allegedly recovered two handguns from the men. Both were ordered held on $1 million bonds Wednesday to the sounds of gasps in the courtroom.
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By SAM CHARLES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A surveillance photo of a person wanted in the Nov. 1 Little Village murder. | Chicago Police
Chicago Police have released a surveillance photo of the person suspected in the fatal shooting Eric T. Jones in Little Village earlier this month, and are asking the public for help in identifying them.
Police did not specify what role the person played in the shooting, but said he drove off in a late model red or maroon GMC Terrain SUV.
The shooting happened about 8:35 a.m. Nov. 1 in the 4100 block of West 31st Street, according to police.
Jones, 23, was walking down the street when a man with a weapon fired shots in his direction, then took off in the SUV, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Jones, of the 0-100 block of Hickory Trace Drive in southwest suburban Justice, was shot in the chest. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:33 a.m., authorities said.
Noel Burrell was shot to death late Tuesday in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
Police investigate after a man was shot to death in the 1200 block of West 73rd Place. | Network Video Productions
The 39-year-old Burrell was standing on the street in the 1200 block of West 73rd Place at 11:55 p.m. when he heard shots and felt pain, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Burrell, known as “Rocko,” lived just a block away in the 1300 block of West 73rd Place.
He was shot in the left shoulder and taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 12:37 a.m., authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By KRISTEN TORRES
Homicide Watch Chicago
Academy and Grammy award-winning artist Common encourages Chicago’s youth to #PutTheGunsDown in a new video with other rappers. | Leo Burnett
A rising number of fatal shootings on the West and South sides has made Chicago almost synonymous with violence.
Homicides have become almost commonplace, and have led to activists trying just about anything to get the city’s youth to put the guns down.
Some have blamed the problem, at least partly, on often-violent lyrics in rap songs, which sometimes glorify the violence. But one new effort is trying to turn that theory around.
“Gun violence is increasingly becoming a problem in the U.S.,” said Brian Shembeda, creative director at the Leo Burnett advertising agency. “We realized we needed to take small bites, and focus on our community first and foremost.”
In partnership with Chicago Ideas Week, the advertising giant has released a music video featuring local rap artists advocating non-violence. The idea is that the most effective solution might be from those same artists whose lyrics are often blamed for promoting or inciting violence.
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By JEFF MAYES
Homicide Watch Chicago
At least 6 people died from violence in Chicago last week, including a newborn baby girl, whose mother is charged with dropping her from an 8th-floor window shortly after giving birth on the North Side.
The newborn, being called Baby Jane Uddin was found dead outside an Uptown building Wednesday night.
About 11:20 p.m., she was found in the yard in the 800 block of West Eastwood, the same block where the suspect lives, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The baby was taken to nearby Weiss Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 12:57 a.m.
Bond was denied Saturday for 19-year-old Mubashra Uddin, who police say gave birth to the girl, then dropped her from the 8th story of a high-rise.
Uddin faces faces first-degree murder charges, according to police.
A 25-year-old man was shot to death Saturday afternoon in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side.
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