The second man wanted for the murder of Dwayne L. Thomas last month in Greater Grand Crossing led police on a chase through the South Side before being captured Wednesday night.
Willie Wheeler | Chicago Police
About 9:30 p.m., officers spotted 21-year-old Willie Wheeler in the 7600 block of South State Street, according to Chicago Police. As officers approached, he pointed a weapon at them and one of the officers fired, but didn’t hit him, police said.
Wheeler got into a vehicle and drove away before his vehicle crashed in the 9500 block of South Halsted, where he was arrested, police said. Officers recovered a weapon from the vehicle, police said.
Wheeler was wanted for the Aug. 19 murder of the 20-year-old Thomas near the victim’s home in the 7400 block of South Harvard, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Read more
Two men have been charged in connection with the murder of 28-year-old Laneesha Miller, whose body was found Thursday in the Little Calumet River after she was reported missing in June from the Washington Heights neighborhood.
Laneesha Miller | Chicago Police
Authorities found the Miller’s body about 5 p.m. in the river near the Bishop Ford Freeway at 135th Street, according to Chicago Police. The Cook County medical examiner’s office confirmed someone was found dead there, but a spokesman said the person had not been officially identified as of Friday morning.
Paul Meyers, 33, of the 2700 block of West 84th Place, has been charged with one count of first-degree murder, according to Chicago Police. Arronis Jackson, 44, of the 2600 block of West 87th Street, faces one count of concealment of a homicidal death, police said.
A friend last saw Miller on June 16 in the 9600 block of South Halsted, according to a June 27 missing person alert from Chicago Police. On June 21, she called her father and told him she would be driving to Georgia the next day, but family members there say she never arrived. Read more
The death of Amon D. Shannon, who was found shot in the head in his West Town home in July has been ruled a homicide.
Shannon, 40, was found unresponsive in his home in the 2300 block of West Washington about 5 p.m. July 10, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
An autopsy at the time did not rule on cause or manner of death, with results pending further investigation. But a Cook County medical examiner’s office spokesman said Wednesday that Shannon died of a gunshot wound to the head, and his death has been ruled a homicide.
Police said the investigation is ongoing, but did not provide additional information Wednesday.
Reba M. Wagner was killed in a shooting that left another man injured Sunday morning in Englewood.
Officers responding to a call of shots fired in the 7200 block of South Green at 7:45 a.m. found two people shot, police said.
Wagner, 20, was shot multiple times, at least once in the abdomen, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:20 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
A 34-year-old man was shot in the leg and taken in good condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
The medical examiner’s office did not have a home address for Wagner, who lived in Birmingham, Alabama, according to her Facebook page.
Emmett Marsh of Peoria was shot to death Friday night in North Lawndale.
The 35-year-old Marsh was sitting in a parked vehicle in the 1100 block of South Richmond at 8:20 p.m. when someone walked up to the car and shot him in the torso, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
A friend drove Marsh to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:35 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1600 block of South Stanley Street in Peoria.
Police are investigating whether the shooting was gang-related.
A South Side man was denied bond Tuesday in connection with the fatal shooting of former Mount Carmel football player Lavell Southern outside a West Loop club.
Andre Harris knew Southern, because Southern’s girlfriend is friends with the woman Harris had been dating, authorities said. But it was unclear what set off Sunday morning’s argument that led to the deadly shooting in the 1100 block of West Randolph.
Southern, 23, was apparently trying to break up the fight before he was killed, Cook County prosecutors said.
Southern was a star football and basketball player at Mount Carmel High School, according to his family. Southern, the son of a pastor, went on to play at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wis., his sister said. Read more
At least 22 people were homicide victims last week in Chicago, including 9 on Wednesday, the single highest homicide total in one day in over 10 years.
And that number does not include an 11-year-old boy who died of a gunshot wound that police have called accidental; nor the remains of a young child found in lagoon in Garfield Park.
Reba M. Wagner was killed in a shooting that left another man injured Sunday morning in Englewood. Officers responded to a call of shots fired in the 7200 block of South Green at 7:45 a.m. and found two people shot, police said.
Wagner, 20, was shot multiple times, at least once in the abdomen, and pronounced dead at the scene at 8:20 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. A 34-year-old man was shot in the leg and taken in good condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
Former Mt. Carmel football star Lavell Southern was killed and another man was injured in a drive-by shooting early Sunday on the Near West Side. Read more
No charges will be filed over the fatal shooting John Stewart during an exchange of gunfire Thursday morning in Bronzeville after police determined the shooting was self-defense.
The two men started shooting at each other during an argument about 5:10 a.m. in the 4700 block of South King Drive, according to Chicago Police.
Stewart, 39, was shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was killed on the block where he lived.
The other man, 52, was shot in the knee and shin, and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition, police said.
No charges were filed against the man who survived because the shooting was determined to be self-defense, a law enforcement source said Tuesday.
The fatal stabbing of Derrick Simpson on Monday morning in the Chatham neighborhood was self-defense and a person of interest has been released, Chicago Police said Tuesday.
The person of interest was released without charges in connection with the death of the 56-year-old Simpson, who was stabbed in the chest in the 800 block of East 81st Street at 11:30 a.m., police said.
Simpson was in a fight with another man, who stabbed him, police said.
Simpson, who lived on the same block, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was pronounced dead at 12:16 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
A law enforcement source said Tuesday afternoon that a person of intere4st who had been questioned by police has been released without charges because he acted in self-defense.
Deandre Myles was shot to death in the East Garfield Park neighborhood Monday night.
About 7:45 p.m., the 23-year-old Myles was standing on a sidewalk in the 3100 block of West Fifth Avenue when someone walked up and shot him repeatedly, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Myles, who lived in the 2000 block of West Maypole, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he later died, authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
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