Derrick Simpson was stabbed to death Monday morning in the Chatham neighborhood.
The 56-year-old was stabbed in the chest in the 800 block of East 81st Street at 11:30 a.m., Chicago Police said. He was fighting with another man when that man stabbed him.
Simpson, who lived on the same block where he was stabbed, 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.
Police said Simpson was 50, but the medical examiner’s office said he was 56.
A person of interest was being questioned Monday afternoon, police said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Lavell Southern was killed and another man was injured in a drive-by shooting early Sunday on the Near West Side.
The men were standing outside about 2:30 a.m. in the 1100 block of West Randolph when a black van pulled up and someone inside opened fire, according to Chicago Police.
Southern, 23, was shot multiple times in the back and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:02 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 8800 block of South Bennett.
The other man, 24, suffered a gunshot wound to the upper left arm and was also taken to Stroger, where his condition was stabilized, police said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Shaquandra Ratliff was shot to death early Sunday during a party in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side.
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Ratliff, 20, was shot in the head about 1:30 a.m. at an outdoor party in an alley in the 6100 block of South Cottage Grove, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Ratliff, who lived in the 6800 block of South Morgan, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she wdied at 2:29 a.m., authorities said.
Area Central detectives are conducting a homicide investigation.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A man has been charged with murder in connection with a shooting involving Chicago Police that left Rafael A. Cruz Jr. dead more than a week ago in Pilsen.
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, 34, has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and four counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm, according to Chicago Police.
Ogden District Cmdr. Frank Valadez and an officer assigned to the district were on patrol near 23rd and Wood about 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 29 when they saw someone firing shots from one vehicle into another, according to a statement from police.
Valadez and the officer pursued the vehicle in their squad car to the intersection of 19th and Ashland, where the vehicle hit several parked cars, according to police.
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A northwest Indiana man has been charged with reckless homicide after a rollover crash Thursday night on Lake Shore Drive in Edgewater left 33-year-old http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/jillian-tsirtsis/ dead.
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, 33, faces one count of reckless homicide for the single-vehicle crash that happened about 7:20 p.m. in the 5700 block of North Lake Shore Drive, according to Chicago Police.
Peacock was at the wheel of the vehicle, which was speeding when it hit a pole and rolled over, police said.
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Leonard J. Williams-Tate died after a drive-by shooting that left two other men wounded late Friday in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
The three men were standing on the sidewalk in the 1600 block of North Mayfield about 11:20 p.m. when someone in a passing vehicle shot them, Chicago Police said.
Williams-Tate, 31, was shot in his right side and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died at 4:10 a.m. Saturday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 5100 block of West Wabansia.
The two other victims, 33 and 28, were =shot in the right leg. One was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood and the other to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, police said. Their conditions had both stabilized.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Antwan D. McCray died Friday, two weeks after he was robbed and shot in Washington Heights.
The 29-year-old was in an alley in the 10200 block of South Lowe about 10 p.m. on Aug. 21 when someone walked up and announced a robbery, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The robber then pulled out a gun, shot him in the chest and took off with his belongings, police said at the time.
McCray, of the 400 block of West 100th Street, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died Friday at 4:09 p.m., authorities said.
A Saturday autopsy found he died of complications from the gunshot wound and his death was ruled a homicide.
Police did not have an update on the investigation Saturday night.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Jamaal Barney was shot to death in the North Lawndale neighborhood late Friday.
About 11:40 p.m., the 22-year-old Barney was standing on the sidewalk in the 1800 block of South Drake when a gold SUV drove past and someone inside opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Barney, of the 1600 block of South Central Park, was shot in the chest, abdomen and legs, police said.
He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:19 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Two men charged with the fatal shootings of Robert Anderson and Michael Gibbs early Wednesday in the Uptown neighborhood were ordered held without bond.
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The attack happened at 2:17 a.m. when 28-year-old
Michael Laster and 33-year-old
Jonathon Thompson shot the two men in the 5000 block of North Winthrop, according to Chicago Police.
Anderson, 34, of the 7900 block of South Ridgeland was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 2:55 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Gibbs, 32, was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. His home address was unknown.
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Paul Forbes has been charged with the murder of Willie Owens, but a lawsuit filed Friday claims Chicago Police caused the crash that killed the 66-year-old South Sider by not terminating a vehicle chase.
Owen’s daughter filed the lawsuit against the city, alleging officers should have stopped the pursuit before the deadly crash.
Sharday Johnson filed the suit in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of her father, who was killed Aug. 24 when he was struck by the car driven by the 26-year-old Forbes.
Forbes is charged with one count of murder, one count of aggravated fleeing, and two counts of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm, all felonies, according to police. He was also charged with misdemeanor driving with a suspended license, and cited for disobeying a red light.
Forbes was driving a Pontiac Bonneville when officers pulled him over for a traffic violation about 7:35 p.m. in the 7500 block of South St. Lawrence, police said. When the officers got out of their squad vehicle, the Pontiac took off westbound on 75th Street, police said.
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