A man who was shot to death last week in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood has been identified as Wilfred Santiago.
Santiago, 21, was walking in the 1600 block of North Francisco about 2:30 p.m. Thursday when two males walked up. One of them pulled a gun and opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The pair then ran away northbound.
Santiago, of the 3500 block of North Kostner, was shot in the torso, arm and lower back; and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:20 p.m., authorities said.
Police are investigating whether the shooting was gang-related.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A man wanted for the fatal shooting of Claudia Mister outside a Morgan Park nightclub last week was arrested Monday morning in Iowa.
Darrick Wells | Linn County sheriff’s office
, 37, was identified as a suspect in the fatal shooting of the 28-year-old Mister outside a club in the 1600 block of West 115th Place about 2:45 a.m. on Sept. 3, according to a statement from the
U.S. Marshals Service.
Authorities said Mister was standing outside with friends when the suspect walked up and fired a handgun several times.
Mister, of the 10600 block of South Church, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she died three hours later, authorities said.
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Jaylyn Rounsaville was fatally shot Monday night in West Garfield Park.
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Rounsaville, 21, was standing outside in the 3800 block of West Van Buren Street at 10:30 p.m. when someone approached and fatally shot him, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Rounsaville, who lived on the same block, suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen and was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he later died, officials said.
Police are investigating whether the shooting was drug-related.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Izzah Readus died early Monday after he was shot in the head the night before in the South Side Kenwood neighborhood.
The shooting happened at 10:40 p.m. Sunday in the 800 block of East Bowen Avenue inside a basement apartment, Chicago Police said. The suspect pulled out a handgun, fired shots and then ran away.
Readus, 29, who lived on the same block, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he died at 2:11 a.m. Monday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By JEFF MAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
At least 6 people were homicide victims last week in Chicago, though one was ruled self-defense. And the body of a woman murdered months earlier was found dismembered and packed in suitcases in the Little Calumet River, a grisly crime for which two men are being held without bond.
There were two fatal shootings over the weekend, just hours apart in the South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
Ashton Simpson was fatally shot Sunday night. The 36-year-old was inside a building in the 8300 block of South Wood when he heard gunshots and went outside to check about 9:10 p.m., according to Chicago Police.
Police said he was then shot in the chest, face and arm. Simpson, who lived on the same block, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
About two hours earlier, a 19-year-old man was fatally shot, also in Auburn Gresham. Akim Gaddis was standing outside in the 8400 block of South Loomis at 6:53 p.m. when a vehicle pulled up and someone inside opened fire, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
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Ashton Simpson was inside his home in Auburn Gresham on Sunday night, when he heard the sound of gunshots outside to check. Moments later, he became the second person fatally shot in about two hours in the neighborhood.
Simpson, 36, was inside a building in the 8300 block of South Wood when he heard shots and went outside about 9:10 p.m., according to Chicago Police.
He was then shot in the chest, face and arm, police said.
Simpson, who lived on the same block, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Less than two hours earlier, Akim Gaddis had been shot to death in the 84oo block of South Loomis, also in Auburn Gresham.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Akim Gaddis was fatally shot Sunday evening in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.
Gaddis, 19, was standing outside in the 8400 block of South Loomis at 6:53 p.m. when a vehicle pulled up and someone inside opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Gaddis, who lived on the same block, was shot in the back, and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 7:48 p.m., according to the police and the medical examiner’s office.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By JEFF MAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Willie Wheeler | Chicago Police
On Aug. 19, in broad daylight,
Willie Wheeler shot
Dwayne L. Thomas twice in the face as the two argued in front of several witnesses outside a building in the South Side Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood, according to prosecutors.
But while an accomplice was taken into custody the next day, Wheeler remained on the lam until Wednesday night, when he led police on a chase through the South Side before being captured.
On Friday, a Judge Ada Bourgeois ordered the 21-year-old Wheeler held without bond.
Prosecutors say that about 1:20 p.m. on Aug. 19, Wheeler and Devonte Watson saw the victim on a porch in the 4700 block of South Harvard with two friends, and Wheeler and Thomas got into a verbal argument as other witnesses watched from inside.
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By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
A South Side man beat and choked his girlfriend, Laneesha Miller, to death before dismembering her body and placing the pieces in four suitcases, Cook County prosecutors said Friday.
Laneesha Miller | Chicago Police
then enlisted the help of his older brother,
Arronis Jackson, to dispose of Miller’s remains, which authorities recovered from the Little Calumet River earlier this week.
“Barbaric,” Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. said in disgust before ordering the siblings held without bond.
The 28-year-old Miller, of Atlanta, was last seen alive by a friend on June 21, Assistant State’s Attorney Todd Kleist said. Later that afternoon, the 28-year-old called her father to wish him a happy Father’s Day. She had been planning on traveling back to the South the next day so she could be there for her child’s surgery later that week.
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Rocky Weekes was shot to death early Tuesday during a fight in the Old Irving Park neighborhood.
The 31-year-old Weekes got into a fight about 3:05 a.m. in the 3300 block of North Keeler with someone who then pulled out a gun and shot him in the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Weekes, of the 3400 block of North Kenton, was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 5:10 a.m., authorities said.
Police are investigating whether the shooting was gang-related.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
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