9-year-old Tyshawn Lee shot to death in Auburn Gresham alley


By STEFANO ESPOSITO and ALEXANDRA KUKULKA
Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Police expand the crime scene where a 9-year-old boy was shot and killed in the 8000 block of South Damen on Monday. | Brian Jackson/for the Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Police expand the crime scene where a 9-year-old boy was shot and killed in the 8000 block of South Damen on Monday. | Brian Jackson/for the Chicago Sun-Times

Nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee was fatally shot Monday afternoon in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.

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

At a news 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.
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Reginald Gildersleeve was carrying paintball gun when he was fatally shot during robbery attempt in Gage Park


By FRANK MAIN
Chicago Sun-Times

Police said Reginald Gildersleeve wore a mask Saturday when he announced he was robbing Agencia Mexicana, 2701 W. 51st St., Gage Park. | Sun-Times file photo

Police said Reginald Gildersleeve wore a mask Saturday when he announced he was robbing Agencia Mexicana, 2701 W. 51st St., Gage Park. | Sun-Times file photo

Suspected robber Reginald Gildersleeve was carrying a paintball gun when a customer with a concealed carry permit shot him to death in a grocery store on the Southwest Side, Chicago Police said Monday.

Gildersleeve, 55, was wearing a mask at about 7 p.m. Saturday when he announced he was robbing Agencia Mexicana at 2701 W. 51st in Gage Park, police said.

Gildersleeve was holding the replica gun when he got into a confrontation with a 44-year-old customer speaking with a store employee, police said. The customer shot Gildersleeve, who police said was a convicted felon.
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WEEK IN REVIEW: Elderly woman stabbed and beaten in Washington Park among 6 victims of violence

By JEFF MAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
rockwell-CST-032812-3.JPGAt least six people were killed in violence in Chicago last week, including an 89-year-old woman who was beaten and stabbed to death in her apartment by someone who then set the building on fire, according to Chicago Police.

The elderly woman was found fatally stabbed after an apartment fire early Monday in the Washington Park neighborhood was later identified as Josephine Johnson.

She was found by firefighters about 2:50 a.m. in an apartment in a three-story building in the 5100 block of South Michigan, according to Fire Media Affairs and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The fire appears to have started in her first-floor apartment, where she was found with multiple stab wounds, authorities said. The fire is thought to be suspicious in nature.
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Derek Jones gets 13 years for fatally shooting Lenardo Allison during argument over drugs in 2013

By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Derek Jones | Illinois Dept. of Corrections

Derek Jones | Illinois Dept. of Corrections

Derek Jones was sentenced to 13 years in prison last month for shooting Lenardo Allison to death during a dispute over drugs two years ago in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.

Jones, 32, was found guilty June 18 after a bench trial before Judge James Linn, according to Cook County court records.

Allison 26, was involved in an argument that escalated into a fight just after 4 a.m. Aug. 20, 2013, in the 6200 block of South Ashland, authorities said at the time.

During the altercation, drugs fell to the ground and Jones and the man fighting with Allison picked them up and walked towards a nearby parking lot.
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Damien Williams dies one day after being injured in drive-by shooting in Chicago Lawn


Damien Williams died one day after being wounded in a drive-by shooting Thursday morning in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

Williams, 22, was standing outside in the 2500 block of West 70th Street at 9:21 a.m. Thursday when an SUV drove by with two people inside. Someone inside fired shots and then drove away eastbound on 70th Street, according to Chicago Police.

Williams, of the the 6800 block of Talman Avenue, suffered a gunshot wound to the head, buttocks and thigh. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 2:14 p.m. Friday, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy Monday found he died of complications of multiple gunshot wounds, and his death was ruled a homicide.

Police are investigating whether the shooting was gang-related.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Prosecutor: Fatal shooting of John Short in Back of the Yards started with girls arguing over clothing


By MITCH DUDEK
Chicago Sun-Times

Robert Nathaniel | Chicago Police

Robert Nathaniel | Chicago Police

An argument between two girls over the way one was dressed escalated into a deadly confrontation between adults, one of whom brought a gun and fatally shot John Short last summer, prosecutors said in bond court Sunday.

The argument happened Aug. 26. Shortly thereafter, several adults gathered at a liquor store at 51st and May in the Back of the Yards neighborhood to try to quash the bad blood between the two parties, Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Robert Kline said in court Sunday.

Robert Nathaniel, 25, was with the father of one of the girls during the gathering, which escalated to bloodshed when Nathaniel briefly left and returned armed with a handgun, Kline said.
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Eric Jones of Justice fatally shot in Little Village


Eric T. Jones of southwest suburban Justice was shot and killed Sunday morning in Little Village.

The shooting happened in the 4100 block of West 31st Street at 8:35 a.m., according to Chicago Police.

Jones, 23, was walking down the street when a male with a weapon fired shots in his direction, then took off in a red SUV, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Jones, of the 0-100 block of Hickory Trace Drive in Justice, was shot in the chest and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:33 a.m., authorities said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Police: Reginald Gildersleeve fatally shot trying to rob Gage Park business; no charges expected


Chicago Police say a customer fatally shot Reginald Gildersleeve, who was trying to rob a business at gunpoint Saturday night in the Southwest Side Gage Park neighborhood.

A man walked into a business that included a currency exchange in the 7200 block of West 51st Street about 7 p.m. Saturday and pulled a gun, threatened the employee behind the counter and announced a robbery, police department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.

A customer in the store then pulled his own weapon and fired at the suspect, Guglielmi said. Other customers were in the business at the time, but authorities could not immediately say how many.
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Murder charge filed after Dorian Smith fatally stabbed in South Shore home


By ALEXANDRA KUKULKA
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Brandon Young | Chicago Police

Brandon Young | Chicago Police

A man has been charged with murder for the fatal stabbing Dorian D. Smith early Saturday morning in the South Shore neighborhood.

Brandon Young, of the 2200 block of East 102nd Street, was charged with first-degree murder after he was identified as the person who fatally stabbed the 43-year-old Smith, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

At 12:25 a.m., police responded to a call of a battery in progress in a home in the 7800 block of South South Shore Drive. Police found Smith in a hallway on the second floor with stab wounds to the head and body, authorities said.
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Bond denied for 17-year-old charged with fatal shooting of DeAngelo Birge in West Garfield Park


By LUKE WILUSZ and JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A 17-year-old boy accused of killing DeAngelo Birge and wounding another man in a West Garfield Park neighborhood shooting earlier this month was ordered held without bond Thursday.

Devion Kimble, 17, is charged with one count each of first-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County state’s attorney’s office. He is also charged with two felony counts of aggravated assault with a firearm.

Birge, 24, and another 24-year-old man were sitting in a car parked in the 4300 block of West Maypole about 3:15 p.m. Oct. 6 when Kimble walked up to the driver-side back window and fired at least nine bullets into the car, prosecutors said.

Birge, of the 4200 block of West Jackson, was shot twice in the head and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:46 p.m., authorities said. The other 24-year-old was shot in the head and finger, and was also taken to Stroger, where he was treated and released.
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