A gun battle outside an Austin neighborhood store on the West Side early Friday left Adriana Reyes dead and two men injured.
Reyes, 20, and the men, ages 20 and 25, were inside a vehicle outside the store near Lake and Cicero at 2:08 a.m. when they got into an argument with someone in another vehicle, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The 20-year-old man fired shots at the other vehicle during the argument, police said. Armed security guards from the store then approached, and the 20-year-old also fired at them. The security guards returned fire, striking all three occupants of the vehicle.
Reyes was shot twice in the head and once in the arm, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was died at 5 a.m., authorities said. She lived in the 3100 block of West Augusta.
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By LEEANN SHELTON
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
More than a year after he was shot in the South Shore neighborhood, 19-year-old Richard Miller died Thursday at a west suburban nursing facility
Miller, who was 18 at the time, was walking in the 6900 block of South South Shore Drive about 6:15 p.m. on May 18, 2014, when two suspects began to follow him, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
One of the two started firing a gun, striking Miller multiple times, authorities said.
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Isaac Acevedo Jr. was shot to death early Thursday while sitting in a vehicle in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Police investigate after a man was shot to death early Thursday in Logan Square. | Network Video Productions
Acevedo, 23, was inside a vehicle near the intersection of Schubert and Central Park shortly after 1 a.m. when another vehicle pulled alongside and someone inside fired shots at him, police said.
Acevedo, of the 1400 block of North Lorel, was shot in the chest and taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he died at 2:49 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Dwayne L. Thomas was less than a block from his home in the Greater Gran Crossing neighborhood Wednesday afternoon when he was shot to death.
Thomas, 20, was shot in the neck in the 7400 block of South Harvard about 1:20 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office
Thomas, who lived on the same block, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 2:09 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
William D. Andrews Jr. was killed and a woman was wounded in a shooting in West Garfield Park on Monday night.
About 9:30 p.m., police found Andrews, 37, who had been shot several times in the neck and back on a porch in the 3800 block of West Monroe, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Andrews, of the 5500 block of West Bryn Mawr, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the medical examiner’s office.
An autopsy revealed he was shot in the back and his death was ruled a homicide.
A short time later, officers found a 34-year-old woman who had been shot in the arm in the 4000 block of West Lake Street, police said. She told officers she had been wounded in the same shooting that left Andrews dead, and had run from the area to avoid being shot again.
She was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where her condition was stabilized, police said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Christopher Doyle
A 21-year-old man shot to death Sunday afternoon in West Englewood on the South Side has been identified as
Christopher Doyle.
Doyle was discovered by police lying in the street in the 5700 block of South Paulina at 1:08 p.m. with gunshot wounds, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Doyle, who lived in the 5700 block of South Hermitage, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 1:52 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.
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A team of Chicago cops (in blue) takes on a team of men from the BUILD program in the Donna Dudley Peace Project All-Star Game last week at Little Cubs Field in Humboldt Park. | Jared Landsman/Homicide Watch Chicago
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JARED LANDSMAN
Homicide Watch Chicago
Retired Chicago cop Isadore Bo Ramos stepped to the plate, trying to knock the softball out of the park against a team of former gang members. “Before the game I go by and shake their hands, and let them know explicitly, prepare for an ass whoopin’,” he said.
As a kid, Ramos was involved with BUILD, a youth program established in 1969 with the goal of keeping kids away from a lifestyle of crime and gangs.
As he looked out at Little Cubs field in Humboldt Park last Thursday during BUILD’s Donna Dudley Peace League All-star game, he reflected on the youth-intervention program that started in his own neighborhood.
“I am a product of BUILD. I joined at the age of 15. They had a youth reach-out program that was very instrumental in the formation of my life,” Ramos said.
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By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Shane Eli | Chicago Police
A confrontation spurred by earlier fights led to the fatal shooting of
Alex Malone on Friday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, prosecutors said.
And now Shane Eli, 19, of the 4100 block of West Iowa, has been charged with first-degree murder, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
Eli punched two rival gang members, one in the head and one in the face, during separate incidents Friday, prosecutors said at Eli’s bond hearing Tuesday.
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Tavaris Heightie died after he was shot several times in the West Garfield Park neighborhood Monday night on the West Side, police said.
About 9:05 p.m., officers responding to reports of a person shot in the 4300 block of West Van Buren found the 32-year-old on a porch with multiple gunshot wounds to the head and torso, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Heightie, who lived in the 5000 block of West North Avenue, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A dice game in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side turned deadly for 19-year-old Jerome Phelps and 16-year-old Caprice McCollum Jr., when two suspects started shooting Sunday night.
The victims were playing dice in the 1800 block of South Springfield about 9:45 p.m. when two male suspects approached and fired shots, police said.
Phelps, who was shot multiple times, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:26 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1800 block of South Ridgeway.
McCollum was shot in the head and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died at 4:08 p.m. Monday, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1800 block of South Avers.
Jerome Phelps, 19, was shot multiple times and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:26 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1800 block of South Ridgeway.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
