By REEMA AMIN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Jody LaVoie, wife of Steven LaVoie, filed a lawsuit Thursday against the estate of the man who shot her husband in his Loop office before taking his own life. | Sun-Times file photo
The wife of Loop
CEO Steve LaVoie, who died last year after he was shot by a demoted executive—who then turned the gun on himself—filed a lawsuit Thursday against the shooter’s estate.
Jody LaVoie, wife of the 55-year-old Steven LaVoie, filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against Pamela Balmes, administrator of the estate of Anthony DeFrances.
The shooting happened the morning of July 31, 2014 at the 17th floor ArrowStream office inside the Bank of America Building, 231 S. LaSalle St. Police said DeFrances had been demoted as chief technology officer six days earlier at Arrowstream, where Steven LaVoie, of LaGrange, was the CEO.
The men were in a meeting in Steven LaVoie’s 17th Floor office when co-workers outside heard shouts and three or four gunshots. Authorities said DeFrances, 60, shot Steven LaVoie in the stomach and head before turning the gun on himself.
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By MITCHELL ARMENTROUT
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Alprentiss Nash | llinois Department of Corrections
Chicago Police claim Alprentiss Nash, exonerated of a murder charge in 2012 after serving 17 years in prison, was fatally shot by someone he was trying to rob Tuesday afternoon on the Near West Side.
Nash, 40, was shot in the chest in the 400 block of South Paulina at 2:20 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Nash tried to rob 30-year-old Mount Prospect resident Paul Vukadinovic, “with whom he had a long drug history,” according to a police statement released Thursday.
Both men were armed and they exchanged gunfire. Nash, of the 100 block of North LaPorte Avenue, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.
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Marsean Lofton died earlier this month of wounds he suffered when he was shot while driving in the West Garfield Park neighborhood in May.
About 5:25 a.m. on May 31, the 18-year-old Lofton was driving westbound in the 3900 block of West Congress when a light-colored car pulled up and someone inside fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Lofton was shot in the right shoulder and left forearm, and another person in the car drove him to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said at the time.
Lofton died at 7:13 a.m. July 17 at Weiss Memorial Hospital. He had lived in the 2500 block of West Montrose, authorities said.
Police did not have an update on the investigation Thursday night.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Alprentiss Nash | llinois Department of Corrections
, who was exonerated of a murder charge in 2012 after serving 17 years in prison, was fatally shot Tuesday afternoon on the Near West Side.
Nash, 40, was shot in the chest in the 400 block of South Paulina at 2:20 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Nash was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.
Police said a person of interest was being questioned.
Nash was convicted of the murder and robbery of a Chicago man on the South Side in 1995, the Sun-Times previously reported. He was incarcerated from April 30, 1995, to Aug. 30, 2012, when Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez vacated his conviction.
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By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Rasheed Martin | Douglas County sheriff’s office
The man charged with fatally shooting 7-year-old
Amari Brown over the July 4th weekend has been extradited to Chicago and is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.
Rasheed Martin, 20, was arrested at the Bartley Manor Complex at 3900 Tower Ave. in Superior, Wis., on July 22, according to a statement from the Douglas County sheriff’s office. Sheriff’s police and the U.S. Marshal Service made the arrest.
Superior is located just over the state line from Duluth, Minn., about 460 miles from Chicago.
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A man shot and killed Sunday morning in the South Chicago neighborhood has been identified as 18-year-old Mujahadeen Muhammad.
Muhammad was found unresponsive on the sidewalk in the 8100 block of South Manistee at 9:13 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Muhammad, of the 1900 block of East 93rd Street, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead an hour later, according to the medical examiner’s office.
An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Latoya Jackson
, who was found dead in her Chatham home along with three children 10 days ago on the South Side was strangled, according to autopsy results announced Tuesday.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office found that Jackson, 28, died from ligature strangulation and her death has been ruled a homicide, according to a spokesman.
Relatives told the Sun-Times the other three bodies were her three sons: Andrew, 11; Cameron, 9; and Kantrell, 5. The medical examiner’s office has positively identified only one of Kantrell Williams, but his cause of death remains unknown pending further investigation.
“The ME’s office continues to work with family to confirm identification of the children.” spokesman Frank Shuftan said.
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Corey Wallace man was stabbed to death in the Southwest Side Ashburn neighborhood Monday night.
The 21-year-old was stabbed in the chest at 7:20 p.m. near his home in the 7700 block of South Kedzie, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 7:54 p.m.
Police were questioning a person of interest, an adult male, in connection with the incident, but that person was released without charges on Wednesday, according to a police spokesman.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By JARED LANDSMAN and TRISTAN SIMS
Homicide Watch Chicago
At least nine people were killed in Chicago this week by gun violence, including seven during a bloody weekend in which at least 34 other people were wounded in shootings.
The most recent fatal act of violence was a drive-by shooting that killed 16-year-old David Moreno in the Little Village neighborhood.
At about 7:45 p.m. Sunday, the teen was standing in the 2800 block of South Keeler when a vehicle approached and someone inside opened fire, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Moreno, of the 2700 block of South Lawndale, was shot in the upper body and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police said he was 15.
Sunday morning, an 18-year-old man was fatally shot in South Chicago, police said. At 9:13 a.m., officers responding to a call of a person shot in the 8100 block of South Manistee found the man unresponsive on the sidewalk.
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A man fatally shot early Saturday in the West Side Austin neighborhood has been identified as 32-year-old Joseph Campbell.
About 12:50 a.m., Campbell was walking with another person in the 4900 block of West Hubbard when shots were fired and he was hit in the abdomen and right shoulder, police said.
Campbell, who lived in the 4000 block of West Lexington, was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:50 a.m., the medical examiner’s office said.
Police are investigating whether the shooting was gang-related.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
