Nija Richardson died after being stabbed during a fight with a man he knew Sunday night in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, police say.
About 11:15 p.m., the 23-year-old Richardson got into an argument with a man near his home in the 6000 block of South Justine, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The other man, whom Richardson knew, pulled out a knife when the altercation turned physical and stabbed Richardson in the abdomen and stomach, authorities said.
He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 1:07 a.m., authorities said.
The attacker was not in custody as of Tuesday morning, police said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By MITCH DUDEK
Chicago Sun-Times
Two teens accused of the shooting death of a 15-year-old Kimon Wheeler were ordered held on high bond amounts Sunday.
Aaron Bynum, 16, was ordered held on $900,000 and Keon Frazier, 15, was ordered held on $1 million. A 14-year-old boy charged in the shooting did not appear in court Sunday.
All three were charged with first-degree murder and attempted robbery in the death of Wheeler, who was killed late Wednesday outside a convenience store at 4155 W. Cullerton Ave. in the North Lawndale neighborhood.
Frazier, of the 1800 block of South Karlov, was with Bynum and the 14-year-old when the three teens announced a robbery, prosecutors allege.
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A teenager has been charged with fatally shooting 16-year-old Jorge Ruiz earlier this year in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Jeremiah Nieves, 17, of the 1300 block of North Monticello, faces one count of first-degree murder, according to the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
Officers responding to a call of shots fired about 10:10 p.m. on Feb. 10 in the 1600 block of North Keeler found Ruiz shot several times in an alley, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Ruiz, who lived a block away in the 1700 block of North Keeler, was dead at the scene, authorities said.
At the time, police said the shooting may have been gang-related.
Nieves, who is charged as an adult, was ordered held without bond at a hearing Saturday, according to the state’s attorney’s office.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By BECKY SCHLIKERMAN
Chicago Sun-Times
Most people wouldn’t consider James Jones a good guy. He sold drugs, according to his family. He’d been in prison and was out on parole.
But Saturday, when a man started shooting at Jones and his mother on the South Side, the 21-year-old covered his mother’s body with his own, shielding her and saving her life, said Dietra Luckett, Jones’ aunt.
“My sister just so happened to be coming out the front door,” Luckett said. “He took his body and put it on top of her body. He covered her body.”
Alicia Jones, 46, was wounded but survived. She underwent surgery at Advocate Christ Medical Center.
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Hammood Dawoudi was killed and another man was wounded in a shooting inside an apartment in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side on Thursday night, police said.
Dawoudi, 23, and a 20-year-old were inside a basement apartment about 9:55 p.m. in the 7900 block of South State when someone knocked on the door and asked for the 20-year-old, officials said.
When the door was opened, the person outside fired several shots before running away northbound, police said.
Dawoudi suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 10:46 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
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Clifton Frye died Thursday of gunshot wounds that prosecutors claim he suffered nearly three weeks ago at the hand of a teenager, upset by Frye’s disparaging Facebook comments about recently slain rapper Young Pappy.
The rapper, whose real name is Shaquon Thomas, was shot early May 29 in Uptown. Four days later, 17-year-old Germel Dossie allegedly shot Frye over remarks he made about the rapper on Facebook, Cook County prosecutors said at a bond hearing for Dossie last week.
Frye, of the 1400 block of West Farwell, was pronounced dead Thursday afternoon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to the medical examiner’s office. He had been pronounced brain dead on June 14, but was still technically alive.
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Lynell L. Simmons died and two other men were wounded in a Thursday afternoon shooting in the South Side Chatham neighborhood.
The men were standing outside in the 7900 block of South Langley about 3:10 p.m., police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala said. That’s when a maroon van pulled up, and two men got out out and started firing.
Simmons, 30, was shot in the abdomen and and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:46 p.m., authorities said. Simmons lived in the 700 block of East 62nd Street, the medical examiner’s office said.
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Sam L. Johnson was shot to death late Wednesday night in the Uptown neighborhood on the North Side.
The 19-year-old was found by police in an alley in the 4400 block of North Magnolia about 11:45 p.m. with gunshot wounds to his side, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Johnson, who lived on the same block where he was found, was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 12:24 a.m. Thursday, authorities said.
Police said the shooting may have been a drive-by attack.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Kimon Wheeler was shot and killed late Wednesday in the North Lawndale, the second 15-year-old to die from gun violence in the West Side neighborhood in two days.
Wheeler got into a fight with someone who then pulled a gun and shot him in the back about 10 p.m. in the 4100 block of West Cullerton, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Wheeler, of the 2100 block of West Jackson, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:38 p.m., authorities said.
Just one day earlier, 15-year-old Martese Gentry was fatally shot about 5:35 p.m. in the 1400 block of South Millard.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Demetrius R. Bottom, who was shot early Tuesday during an argument in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side, has died.
Bottom, 49, was standing outside in the 8000 block of South Maryland about 1 a.m. when someone approached and an altercation ensued, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was shot in the side during the encounter, police said.
Bottom, of the 7900 block of South Maryland, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he died at 4:31 a.m., the medical examiner’s office said.
An autopsy Wednesday found he died of multiple gunshot wounds and ruled his death a homicide.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
