Samson Pension-Smith was shot and killed Tuesday morning in the South Shore neighborhood, just two blocks from where a 16-year-old boy was fatally shot the day before.
Officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 7900 block of South Chappel at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday and found a man shot multiple times in the chest and abdomen, police said.
Pension-Smith, 20, of the 7800 block of South Kingston, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:51 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.
An autopsy found he died of a gunshot wound to the flank, and his death was ruled a homicide.
The shooting scene was near Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, and just two blocks from where 16-year-old Abayomi Okanlawan was killed and a 17-year-old boy seriously wounded in a shooting Monday.
Joseph Gaithers died about four hours after being shot in the head Wednesday afternoon in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.
Joseph Gaithers
About 1:15 p.m., Gaithers, 35, was talking with someone in the 8000 block of South King Drive, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The other person pulled a gun and shot Gaithers in the head.
Gaithers, of the 6300 block of South Calumet, was taken in critical condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 5:31 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.
Abayomi Okanlawan was standing outside his South Chicago neighborhood home with another teenage boy on Monday evening when gunshots rang out, leaving the 16-year-old dead and the other teen wounded.
Okanlawan and a 17-year-old boy were standing outside in the 7900 block of South Merrill about 5:30 p.m. when a red vehicle pulled up. A male suspect got out and fired shots at them, police said. The gunman then got back into the vehicle, which sped off.
Okanlawan was shot several times and was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:05 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived on the same block where the shooting happened.
An autopsy showed he died of multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.
The other teen was shot in the back and was taken to South Shore Hospital in serious condition, police said.
A Calumet Heights man shot and killed his longtime friend Anthony Strong over the July Fourth weekend because the pal touched his Cadillac, Cook County prosecutors said in court Tuesday.
John Watley was angry that Strong and others were touching his car Sunday, so he went inside his home in the 9200 block of South Harper Avenue, returned with a machete and told everyone to get away from his ride, assistant state’s attorney Enrique Abraham said.
Most of the crowd walked away from the parked vehicle but the 48-year-old Strong, who had been drinking with Watley and other neighbors earlier, started drumming his fingers against the Cadillac, Abraham said.
Watley, 58, then went back inside his house. When he came back outside, Strong continued drumming on Watley’s car, Abraham said. Read more
By JAREDLANDSMAN and TRISTANSIMS
Homicide Watch Chicago
Sixteen people were killed throughout Chicago last week, 11 of them over a violent Independence Day weekend,when the victims included a 7-year-old boy hot while watching fireworks in Humboldt Park on Saturday.
Seven-year-old Amari Brown, who lived in the 500 block of North Drake, and a 26-year-old woman were not the intended targets when they were shot while standing in the 1100 block of North Harding just before midnight.
Police said Sunday the bullet that fatally wounded the boy on the Fourth of July was meant for his father. Both Amari and the woman were shot in the chest at 11:55 p.m., police said.
The child’s father, Antonio Brown, a ranking gang member who has been arrested 45 times on charges ranging from burglary to gun possession, was not cooperating with police as they tried to find his son’s killer, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said Sunday. Read more
The death of a John Perry, who was struck and killed by a minivan during an argument early Sunday in North Lawndale, has been ruled a homicide.
About 5 a.m., the 27-year-old Perry and a 23-year-old woman were involved in a verbal and physical fight in the 1100 block of South Francisco, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
At some point, the woman got into a minivan, drove onto the sidewalk and struck Perry with the vehicle before speeding off, police said.
Perry, of the 400 block of West 65th Place, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead less than an hour later, the medical examiner’s office said. Read more
The Fourth of July weekend turned into an explosion of violence across Chicago, where shootings left 10 people dead — including a 7-year-old boy — and at least 53 others injured from Thursday evening to early Monday.
Seven-year-old Amari Brown was killed in a shooting that also left a 26-year-old woman wounded late Saturday in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
Amari, who lived in the 500 block of North Drake, was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1:56 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Police said Sunday the bullet that fatally wounded 7-year-old Amari Brown on the Fourth of July was meant for his father. Both Amari and the 26-year-old woman were shot in the chest at 11:55 p.m. in the 1100 block of North Harding, police said.
The boy’s father, Antonio Brown, is a ranking gang member with 45 previous arrests and was not cooperating with police as of Sunday afternoon as they tried to find his son’s killer, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Read more
A Humboldt Park man killed in a double shooting last week in North Lawndale has been identified as 50-year-old Edgar Colon.
About 9:50 p.m. on July 1, Colon and another man, 38, were standing on a sidewalk in the 3600 block of West 16th Street when two gunmen walked up and opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Colon was shot in the chest, leg and arm, and pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital at 10:18 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the 700 block of North Kedzie.
The younger man took himself to Mount Sinai Hospital with gunshot wound to the right leg, and police said his condition stabilized.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Dominic Fairley Jr. was shot to death early Sunday in the South Shore neighborhood.
The 28-year-old was sitting in his car in the 7700 block of South South Shore Drive a few minutes before 1 a.m. when someone walked up and fired shots into the car, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Fairley was taken to South Shore Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:19 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 8500 block of South Hermitage.
Police are investigating whether the shooting may have been gang-related.
The bullet that fatally wounded 7-year-old Amari Brown on the Fourth of July was meant for his father, Chicago’s top cop said Sunday.
Amari Brown
Antonio Brown, a ranking gang member with 45 previous arrests, was not cooperating with police as of Sunday afternoon as they tried to find his son’s killer, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said.
And if things had gone differently after Antonio Brown’s latest brush with police—an arrest on gun and theft charges in April—his son might not have become Chicago’s latest young victim of gun violence, McCarthy said.
Rather, records show Cook County Judge James Brown set Antonio Brown’s bail at $50,000 on April 7. Antonio Brown posted $5,000, records show. And according to McCarthy, he was back on the streets “the very next day.” Read more
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