Homicide Watch Chicago

A person was in police custody Wednesday afternoon after 42-year-old Terrell Peterson was found dead following a fight inside an apartment Wednesday morning in the West Side Austin neighborhood.

Officers responding to a report of a battery in progress at an apartment in the 800 block of North Central at 6:30 a.m. found Peterson unresponsive, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Peterson, who lived on the block where he was found, was dead at the scene, authorities said.

A police source said Peterson had gotten into a fight with his fiancee’s son. The son, whose age was not disclosed, was taken into custody at a downtown bus station Wednesday morning.

Police are investigating the death as a homicide.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By MITCH DUDEK
Chicago Sun-Times

he casket for Tyshawn Lee is carried into St. Sabina Church before Tuesday’s service. The church’s pastor, Father Michael Pfleger, waits on the steps (right). | Brian Jackson/ For the Chicago Sun-Times

The 9-year-old was lured into an Auburn Gresham neighborhood alley and executed by a gunman last week. Police said the slaying was gang retaliation against the boy’s father.

Hundreds filed past the red casket in front of the altar to pray over Tyshawn, who wore a white tuxedo and red bow tie. A red fedora was placed next to his head, two basketballs near his feet.

Tyshawn’s mother, Karla Lee, kissed her son goodbye on the forehead and nearly collapsed in grief as she cried out, “Lord have mercy!”
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A man found shot to death in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood early Saturday has been identified as 56-year-old Bernard Howard.

Howard was found lying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound in the 1100 block of North Pulaski about 2:50 a.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Howard, of the 5300 block of West Quincy, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:24 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy found he was shot in the chest and his death was ruled a homicide, the medical examiner’s office said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By JEFF MAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
At least 9 people died in a violent early November week in Chicago, including a 9-year-old boy fatally shot in an alley in Auburn Gresham; and a 14-year-old boy shot down on a sidewalk in Gage Park.

The younger boy, Tyshawn Lee, was shot in an alley in the 8000 block of South Damen at 4:15 p.m. Monday, authorities said.

At a press conference at Chicago Police headquarters Monday night, Dean Andrews, chief of detectives, said the boy suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body.

Andrews said an unknown number of people were arguing in the alley and gunfire followed. Tyshawn, who lived in the 2000 block of West 80th Street, was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:39 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Police Supt. Garry McCarthy later said that Tyshawn was targeted, lured to the alley and “executed” as retribution for his father’s gang activity.

The 14-year-old, J-Quantae Riles, was shot to death late Saturday in the Gage Park neighborhood after recently moving back to Chicago from Virginia.
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By MITCH DUDEK, JON SEIDEL and JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times

Community activist Andrew Holmes (second from left) helps support Franika Marshall, mother of J-Quantae Riles, at a candlelight vigil at the scene of the shooting Sunday evening. | Jon Seidel/Sun-Times

But things in Virginia didn’t work out, so J-Quantae, 14; his mother and 7-year-old sister returned to the Gage Park neighborhood a few weeks ago.

On Saturday night, he was walking home from the store with a group of friends about 9:30 p.m. in the 2200 block of West 59th Street in the West Englewood neighborhood when someone walked up and fired shots, according to Chicago Police.

The teen was found dead on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound in his back, authorities said. They said no one was in custody late Sunday night, and the investigation is ongoing.

Franika Marshall, the boy’s mother, is a hair stylist and rapper who composed and starred in a music video titled “Put the Guns Down.” The video shows Marshall rapping and leading an anti-violence rally.
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By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Fourteen-year-old J-Quantae Riles, who was shot to death late Saturday in the Southwest Side Gage Park neighborhood, had recently moved back to Chicago from Virginia with his pregnant mother and younger sister.

J-Quantae was walking home from the store with a group of friends in the 2200 block of West 59th Street about 9:30 p.m. when shots rang out, according to Chicago Police and anti-violence activist Andrew Holmes, who spoke with the boy’s mother Sunday.

The teen was found dead on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the back, authorities said. Holmes said it’s unclear if the shooting was a drive-by. The teen’s friends ran off when they heard the shots.
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Felix McGhee Jr. was killed and two other men critically wounded in a Humboldt Park neighborhood shooting Friday night on the West Side.

McGhee, 51, and two other men, ages 19 and 27, were outside in the 1400 block of North Kildare about 8 p.m. when two gunmen walked up, started shooting and ran away, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

McGhee, who lived in the same block, was shot in the abdomen and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.

The 19-year-old was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with gunshot wounds to the abdomen, arm and buttocks. The 27-year-old was shot in the leg and arm and taken to Stroger Hospital, police said. Both were listed in critical condition.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Michael A. Johnson was killed in an Englewood neighborhood shooting Saturday night on the South Side.

Johnson, 43, was found with a gunshot wound to the head about 10:45 p.m. sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle in the 700 block of West 59th Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Johnson, of the 2900 block of West 79th Street, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 11:22 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said.

—Chicago SUn-Times Wire

By LUKE WILUSZ
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Terrell Boyd | Chicago Police

Terrell Boyd, 26, is charged with first-degree murder for the shooting death of the 56-year-old Glover on June 26, 2014, according to court records and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Glover was outside his home in the 100 block of North Leamington Avenue at 1:36 p.m. when Boyd and another person got out of a van in the alley behind the home and walked around the corner onto Leamington, prosecutors said.

They walked up to Glover, and Boyd’s accomplice pulled out a gun, threatened Glover and demanded Glover go into his house with them, prosecutors said.
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Jerald Strong was shot and killed during an argument Tuesday afternoon in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.

The 24-year-old was arguing with another man about 1 p.m. in the 3200 block of West 15th Street when the other man pulled a gun and fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Strong, of the 1300 block of South Christiana, was shot in the head, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died within the hour, authorities said.

An autopsy showed he died of multiple gunshot wounds and ruled his death a homicide.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire