By ASHLEE REZIN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Elton Buie died Monday, two days after he and two teenagers were shot in the University Village neighborhood on the Near West Side.
Buie, 21, of the 1400 block of West Morgan, was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 1:42 p.m. Monday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Police said he was shot in the head.
Buie and two 17-year-old boys were standing outside about 2:45 a.m. Saturday in the 1000 block of West 14th Street when a light-colored car drove up, police said. Two males exited the vehicle and fired shots before jumping back in the car and speeding away.
All three gunshot victims were taken to Stroger Hospital, police said. One teenager was shot in the arm and leg, and the other was shot in the leg. Their conditions had stabilized.
Police are investigating whether the shootings may have been gang-related.
By JARED LANSMAN and TRISTAN SIMS
Homicide Watch Chicago
At least 9 people were killed in Chicago violence this past week, though police say one may have been a case of self-defense; and a 10th person may have been a homicide victim, though an autopsy has proven inconclusive.
In the latest homicide, 20-year-old Chris Green was found shot and killed in an alley on the Far South Side early Sunday.
Green, of the 12000 block of South Parnell, was discovered unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds at 5 a.m. in the 11700 block of South LaSalle, police said. He was dead at the scene.
Vaughn King Jr. died and another man was critically wounded in a lakefront shooting early Sunday in the Oakland neighborhood on the South Side.
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Vaughn King Jr. was killed and another critically wounded in a shooting on the lakefront early Sunday in the Oakland neighborhood on the South Side.
Vaughn King Jr.
King, 21; and a 31-year-old man were sitting on the lakefront near 43rd Street about 3:15 a.m. when two gunmen walked up and started shooting, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
King, of the 1000 block of North Milwaukee Avenue, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:40 a.m., the medical examiner’s office said.
The older man was shot four times in the abdomen and once in the arm, and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition late Sunday.
King was a 2012 graduate of Curie High School, where he was a fullback and linebacker on the football team, and was also the city champion in the shot put in 2011, according to the Chicago Public League Sports Blog.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By LEEANN SHELTON
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Anthony Robinson | Chicago Police
A man convicted of chasing down and fatally shooting
Kevin Jemison in Bronzeville on New Year’s Day 2013 was sentenced to 55 years in prison Friday.
Judge James Obbish had found Anthony Robinson, 23, guilty of first-degree murder on Dec. 12, 2014, after a bench trial, according to court records.
Officials claimed Robinson shot the 28-year-old Jemison in the 4500 block of South Champlain Avenue as he walked with a friend about 2:45 p.m. Jan. 1, 2013, authorities said.
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Honorio Hernandez, who was shot early Friday near his home in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood, died of his wounds Sunday.
Hernandez, 23, was on the sidewalk in the 4300 block of South Wood about 4:50 a.m. when a vehicle drove up and someone inside shot him multiple times in the chest and neck, police said.
He was unresponsive at the scene, and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:45 a.m. Sunday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the same block as the shooting.
Police are investigating whether the shooting was gang-related.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By MITCHELL ARMENTROUT
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Miriam Romero | Chicago Police
Bond was set at $250,000 Saturday for a 22-year-old woman charged with being part of a group that beat
Victor Ramirez to death last summer in Little Village on the Southwest Side.
Miriam Romero is the second person charged with murder for the Aug.31, 2014 attack that left the 23-year-old dead in the 4100 block of West 26th Street, according to Chicago Police. Alvaro Perez, 20, was charged last October and remains in the Cook County Jail on a $1 million bond, Homicide Watch Chicago previously reported.
Ramirez was walking about 5:30 a.m. that day when a group in a passing vehicle yelled gang slogans, prosecutors said at Perez’s bond October bond hearing.
The group got out of the vehicle, and beat and kicked Ramirez. When Ramirez fell to the ground, the group stomped on his head, prosecutors said.
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Jesse M. Diaz was shot to death early Thursday in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.
About 3:45 a.m., the 21-year-old Diaz was shot in the head, back and arm in the 12000 block of South Prairie, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Diaz, of the 12000 block of Artesian in Blue Island, was pronounced dead 15 minutes later at Roseland Community Hospital, the medical examiner’s office said.
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By ASHLEE REZIN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Family members mourn in the 8900 block of South Houston, where a 35-year-old man was killed and a 19-year-old man was injured in a shooting early Friday, July 31, 2015. | Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times
was killed and another person was injured in a drive-by shooting near his South Chicago neighborhood home late Thursday.
Lewis, 35, and a 19-year-old man were standing outside in the 8900 block of South Houston at 11:40 p.m. when a vehicle drove by and someone inside opened fire, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Lewis, who lived in the same block as the shooting, was shot in the upper left part of his chest and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. The younger man was shot in the leg and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
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By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
Deonte Logan | Chicago Police
Two nephews of an Illinois state senator were killed by a gangbanger friend upset at them for not intervening when he was beaten up and stripped of his clothing at a July Fourth block party on the South Side, Cook County prosecutors said Friday.
When 19-year-old Deonte Logan lashed out at Willie Hunter and John Hunter—also gang members—they tried to make it up to him by looking for his clothes, Assistant State’s Attorney Jamie Santini said.
The victims were nephews of State Sen. Mattie Hunter.
They only found a shoe, but the Missouri-based brothers and another pal drove to the 8800 block of South Bishop to give the footwear back to Logan.
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By REEMA AMIN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Lakeisha Tate
A lawsuit filed Thursday claims a Citgo gas station is to blame for the 2013 shooting death of a
Lakeisha Tate, which prosecutors said stemmed from a Facebook fight.
Myree Tate filed the lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against the gas station on the corner of Harrison and Homan. Tates’ relationship to Lakeisha Tate wasn’t known.
On Aug. 26, 2013, Lakeisha Tate was walking out of the gas station in the 3300 block of West Harrison when she was confronted by 30-year-old Khalila Southall, prosecutors said at Southall’s bond hearing in September 2013.
The two started fighting on the ground at the entry to the station store when Southall pulled a gun and shot Tate in the leg and torso, prosecutors said. Tate later died at Stroger Hospital.
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