Marquis Mitchell was shot to death late Sunday during an attempted robbery in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.
A man who was sitting in a parked vehicle was shot to death late Sunday in the North Lawndale neighborhood. | Network Video Productions
About 11:05 p.m., the 32-year-old Mitchell was behind the wheel of a parked car with a passenger in the 1500 block of South Kildare when someone rode up on a bicycle and tried to rob them, police said.
When Mitchell started to drive away, the person on the bicycle opened fire, police said.
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Authorities investigate the West Englewood block where a teen was killed and a man wounded late Friday. | Network Video Productions
Seventeen-year-old Torri Williams was killed and a man wounded in a shooting in the West Englewood neighborhood late Friday.
About 11 p.m., the two were in the 6400 block of South Justine when a male suspect got out of a passing white Cadillac and shot them, police said. The model of the vehicle was not immediately known.
Williams was shot in the chest and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:52 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 9000 block of South Laflin.
The 20-year-old man was shot in the arm and taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where his condition had stabilized, police said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
William L. Drake and Briona O. White were shot down Thursday evening in a double homicide in the Roseland neighborhood on the South Side.
About 6:55 p.m., officers responding to a call of a person shot in the 500 block of West 109th found two people outside with gunshot wounds, police said.
Drake, 20, was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He lived a few blocks away in the 10900 block of South Lowe.
White, 22, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she was pronounced dead at 7:43 p.m., authorities said. She lived in the 10100 block of South Carpenter. An autopsy showed she died of multiple gunshot wounds.
Police are investigating whether the shootings were gang-related.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Andrew Holmes on the job for Chicago Survivors in the 9200 block of South Harper Avenue on Friday, July 31. | Brian Jackson/For the Chicago Sun-Times
By
FRANK MAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
A stranger approached Yolanda Strong at the hospital on the day her husband was shot to death.
At first, she thought he was a Chicago Police detective.
But the man in the suit was Andrew Holmes, a crisis responder for a new $1.7 million, two-year program funded by the city. He offered to arrange counseling for her family, help her apply for victims’ compensation, and to keep her in touch with detectives and prosecutors.
“I was so devastated,” said Strong, who was huddling with her family at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn when Holmes showed up.
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By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
Demetrius Bronson | Chicago Police
An Austin man was ordered held without bail Thursday for allegedly murdering
Byron Floyd and shooting two others after an argument broke out earlier this summer.
Days before the June 14 shooting, Demetrius Bronson and one of the victims were involved in an “incident,” Cook County prosecutors said.
Although Assistant State’s Attorney Joe DiBella did not detail what happened between the Bronson and the 31-year-old man, he said the man confronted Bronson with his other two friends in the 900 block of Lorel Avenue.
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Pierre Resse was shot and killed while driving in the West Side Austin neighborhood Wednesday night.
Officers responding to a crash in the 1100 block of North Central at 11:20 p.m found the 27-year-old shot in the head and unresponsive in the driver’s seat of a vehicle, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
It appeared that after the shooting, the vehicle Resse was in had crashed into a parked car.
Resse, who lived in the 5100 block of North Latrobe, was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
Police are investigating whether the shooting was gang-related.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Adarius Hayes found shot to death inside a car Wednesday morning in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.
Police responded to a report of an unresponsive person in a car in the 7500 block of South Damen about 6 a.m., and found the 21-year-old man Hayes with a gunshot wound to the chest, police said.
Hayes, of the 8100 block of South Damen, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was later pronounced dead, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Chris Green was found shot to death in an alley in the Far South Side West Pullman neighborhood early Sunday.
The body of the 20-year-old Green was found with multiple gunshot wounds at 5 a.m. in the 11700 block of South LaSalle, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Green, of the 12000 block of South Parnell, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the medical examiner’s office. His death was ruled a homicide.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Spencer Stewart was killed in a shooting that left four other people injured at a party early Sunday in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
Two males approached the house party in the 4800 block of West Kamerling and fired shots into the crowd outside about 1 a.m., police said.
Spencer Stewart, 22, of the 3600 block of West 80th Street was shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:38 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
A 21-year-old man was shot in the back and chest, and was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said. A 20-year-old man was shot in the abdomen and was also taken to Sinai, where his condition was stabilized.
Another man, 19, was shot in the thigh, but hospital information was not available, police said. A 24-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the arm and was treated at the scene.
— Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By LEEANN SHELTON
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Rickey Winfield | Chicago Police
A northwest Indiana man wanted in connection with the 2013 slayings of
Martellis Griffis and
William Aikens in the Far South Side Roseland neighborhood has been arrested.
Rickey Winfield, 22, is charged with murder in connection with the Oct. 16, 2013, shooting in the 10500 block of South Lafayette, according to Chicago Police and court records.
The shooting killed Griffis, 22, outside his home about 3:20 p.m., police said at the time. He died at the scene.
Authorities said the 18-year-old Aikens, of the 1700 block of North Lotus, was also wounded in the shooting. Aikens ran to a vacant lot in the 10500 block of South Perry Street, where he collapsed and died.
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