Lawrence M. Cox was talking to someone in car when he was fatally shot Tuesday night in the North Lawndale neighborhood om the West Side.
The 29-year-old was inside a vehicle talking to someone in the 3400 block of West Madison about 10:05 p.m. when a gunman approached and opened fire, striking Cox in the side of his abdomen, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Lawrence M. Cox
Cox, of the 3800 block of West Van Buren, was driven by his friend to the Jesse Brown
VA Medical Center, authorities said. He was later transferred to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:44 p.m.
Detectives are investigating whether the shooting may have been gang-related.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Martese Gentry was shot and killed as he watched a fight Tuesday evening in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.
The 15-year-old was watching a fight between two girls about 5:35 p.m. in the 1400 block of South Millard when a gunman approached and opened fire, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The boy was shot in the chest and abdomen.
Gentry, of the 800 block of South Kedzie, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m., authorities said.
No one was in custody as of Wednesday morning.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
A homeless man told police he stabbed to death Thomas Sawyer to death because he thought the other homeless man was going to urinate in his makeshift home in an Uptown bus shelter, Cook County prosecutors said.
Ross Feiwell, who stumbled into court mumbling to himself Tuesday, was caught killing Sawyer, 49, on surveillance cameras from a Target store in the 4400 block of North Broadway, Assistant State’s Attorney Enrique Abraham said.
“Lies,” Feiwell, 58, said as Abraham described how Feiwell allegedly killed his rival Sunday night.
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Arthur Wyatt, whose body was found inside a dumpster that had been set on fire Saturday night in the Southwest Side Brighton Park neighborhood, was beaten to death, an autopsy has shown.
Firefighters responded to a fire in a dumpster in the alley of the 4200 block of South Kedzie about 10:30 p.m. Saturday and found a body inside after the blaze was extinguished, Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford said.
He was identified as the 55-year-old Wyatt, of the 4500 block of South Michigan Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
An autopsy found he died of blunt trauma to the head from an assault, and his death was ruled a homicide, the medical examiner’s office said.
The Chicago Fire Department Office of Fire Investigation Division and Area Central detectives are investigating.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Marquis Chamberlain died last week, nearly a month after being shot in the Roseland neighborhood, the same shooting that killed two other men, both of whom were driving home after registering for college.
Chamberlain, 19, was one of three people shot May 13 in the 200 block of West 107th Place, authorities said.
Chamberlain, Shamari Salter and Terrence Canady were in a vehicle about 8 p.m. when another vehicle pulled alongside and someone started shooting, authorities said.
Chamberlain, of the 11400 block of South Parnell, was shot in the chest and was initially taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, authorities said.
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Arkeem E. Shepherd died Thursday afternoon, more than 24 hours after he was shot in the Southwest Side Chicago Lawn neighborhood.
Shepherd, 22, was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head at 12:54 p.m. Wednesday in the 3000 block of West 63rd Street, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Shepherd, of the 1200 block of West 71st Place, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, authorities said.
— Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By TRISTAN SIMS and JARED LANDSMAN
Homicide Watch Chicago
At least 13 people were killed by violence throughout Chicago last week, eleven of them fatally shot.
The latest homicide, for which a man is in custody, was a fatal stabbing outside a Target in the North Side Uptown neighborhood Sunday night.
The victim, 48-year-old Thomas Sawyer, was stabbed in the neck at 9:45 p.m. during an argument in the 4400 block of North Broadway, police said. Sawyer, believed to have been homeless, died at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
In a tweet late Sunday, Ald. James Cappleman said the fight happened over selling socks outside the Target. He called the killing “senseless.”
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Byron Floyd was killed and two other men were wounded in a shooting Sunday night in the West Side Austin neighborhood, police said.
The men were standing in the 900 block of North Lorel about 6:20 p.m. when an armed male walked up and fired numerous shots, police said.
Floyd, 31, of the 5500 block of West Cortland, was shot in the side and back and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
A 36-year-old man was shot multiple times and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was listed in serious condition, police said.
A third man, 31, was shot in the right leg and taken to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where his condition stabilized.
Detectives are investigating whether the shooting was gang-related, according to a police source.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By MITCH ARMENTROUT
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Arieus Fitch of South Shore man has been charged with fatally shooting Raheem Dameron and wounding another teenage boy over the Memorial Day weekend in Bronzeville.
Fitch, 20, faces a first-degree murder charge for the attack that happened about 8:20 p.m. on May 24 in the 4400 block of South Cottage Grove, Chicago Police announced Sunday morning.
Prosecutors said Fitch was seeking revenge for an earlier shooting.
The boys, ages 14 and 15, were outside when someone fired shots from a light-colored sedan, police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer said.
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By REEMA AMIN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
David Martinez Jr. was killed and another man was wounded in a drive-by shooting early Sunday in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side, police said.
The two men were standing on the corner in the 4400 block of South Honore about 12:30 a.m. when a red SUV and a light car pulled up and the occupants fired shots, police said.
Martinez, 40, of the 4500 block of South Washtenaw, was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
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