A man found shot to death in a car Wednesday night in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side has been identified as 38-year-old James Mitchell.
Mitchell was found with a gunshot wound in the driver’s seat of a car about 10 p.m. after the car crashed into the side of a building in the 100 block of East 127th Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Mitchell, of the 8400 block of South Maryland Avenue, suffered a gunshot wound to the upper back and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Eric Jordan was shot to death Saturday afternoon in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side.
At 12:30 p.m., the 25-year-old was walking in the 1600 block of West Howard when someone walked up and shot him, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Jordan, of the 4600 block of North Racine, suffered gunshot wounds to the chest and back, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
He was taken to Presence Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead at 1:04 p.m., authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A 19-year-old woman gave birth to a girl, then dropped the newborn to her death from the 8th floor window of an Uptown neighborhood high-rise Wednesday night, according to Chicago Police.
Mubashra Uddin | Cook County sheriff’s office
Mubashra Uddin faces first-degree murder charges, police announced early Saturday.
About 11:20 p.m. Wednesday, the girl was found in the yard of the building in the 800 block of West Eastwood, the same block Uddin lives on, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The child, known as Baby Jane Uddin, was taken to Weiss Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 12:57 a.m., authorities said. An autopsy Thursday found she died of multiple blunt force injuries and ruled her death a homicide.
Uddin, who remained hospitalized early Friday, had dropped the girl from the window shortly after giving birth, police said.
On Saturday, a judge ordered Uddin held without bond.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
On Aug. 27, 2014, Hector Rivera waited outside the workplace of a woman he had been dating in Albany Park, and when he saw Erendira Pimentel-Hernandez, he stabbed her more than 20 times.
Hector Rivera | Chicago Police
On Friday, the 56-year-old Rivera was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder for the fatal stabbing, according to a statement from the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
Pimentel-Hernandez, 38, had been dating Rivera when he met her about 8:15 a.m. that summer morning in a stairwell in the 4700 block of North Lawndale, prosecutors said. She was a caretaker for a senior who lived on the block.
A witness said she saw the victim talking to a man in a rear parking lot, according to a police report. The two then walked into the stairwell and closed the door.
Rivera had “stabbed her repeatedly before fleeing,” prosecutors said. “The victim suffered numerous wounds to her face, torso and arms…”
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Dwayne Jones | Chicago Police
An Austin man has been charged with beating his mother’s fiance
Terrell Peterson to death in front of two young relatives who were watching cartoons in a bedroom of the family’s home.
After beating the 42-year-old Peterson, Dwayne Jones took off on one of the children’s bicycles, Cook County prosecutors said Friday in court.
Jones, 20, was angry at Peterson because he thought he had taken his wallet, Assistant State’s Attorney Kim Przekota said.
Jones searched the bedroom and patted Peterson down Wednesday morning before the two started fighting and ended up on the bed, Przekota said.
The bed was where Jones’ 8-year-old half-brother and his mom’s granddaughter, 9, were watching TV, Przekota said. The 8-year-old boy is the son of Peterson and Jones’ mother.
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By RUMMANNA HUSSAIN
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Michael Anderson | Chicago Police
A West Side man was ordered held without bond Friday after being charged with murdering 14-year-old
Marcus McCarty in Austin last summer.
Cook County Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil noted the facial expressions 18-year-old Michael Anderson made in court showed that “he did not care” about the allegations against him in the Aug. 24, 2014, incident.
Anderson is the accused gunman in McCarty’s murder.
Anderson got out of a car in an alley near the 1100 block of North Leclaire and fired at a group of people McCarty was walking with, Assistant State’s Attorney Robert Kline said in court.
The teen was shot in the abdomen and back.
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Lee M. Fields was shot to death in the West Garfield Park neighborhood Thursday morning.
The 33-year-old Fields was found about 10:35 a.m. in the 4400 block of West Monroe Street with two gunshot wounds to the lower abdomen, according to Chicago Police. He ran into a building and collapsed on the stairs.
Fields, who lived on the same block as the shooting, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead less than an hour later, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Between five and six males were seen running westbound in the 4300 block of West Monroe after the shooting, police said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A newborn baby girl found dead outside an Uptown neighborhood high-rise Wednesday night was beaten to death, an autopsy Thursday revealed.
Police investigate after an infant was found dead in Uptown Wednesday night. | Network Video Productions
The girl, known as
Baby Jane Uddin, was found in the grass about 11:45 p.m. outside a building in the 800 block of West Eastwood, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
She was taken to Weiss Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 12:57 a.m., the medical examiner’s office said.
An autopsy Thursday showed the girl died of multiple blunt force injuries, the medical examiner’s office said. Her death was ruled a homicide.
Police could be seen searching for evidence and taking photographs outside a building in that block early Thursday.
Area North detectives are conducting a death investigation and no one was in custody as of late Thursday afternoon.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Antonio Lampley | Cook County sheriff’s office
The man who accidentally shot and killed 23-year-old
Derrius Drakes earlier this year in Roseland has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
Antonio Lampley, 23, pleaded guilty on Oct. 6, according to Cook County court records.
Lampley shot Drakes in the back about 4:30 p.m. Feb. 25 in the 11300 block of South Parnell, authorities said at the time. The shooting was believed to be accidental, police said.
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A man found shot to death Monday afternoon in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side was identified as 23-year-old Mark Anthony Hayes.
At 2:25 p.m., officers responded to a call of shots fired in the 300 block of East 120th Street and found Hayes unresponsive with a single gunshot wound to the arm and torso, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Hayes, of the first block of West Brayton Street, was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 2:52 p.m. Monday.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
