Devante Warnsby was shot to death in the South Chicago neighborhood Wednesday morning.
Warnsby, 21, was walking in the 8400 block of South Essex Avenue when a gray care pulled up and a gunman inside opened fire at 11:17 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said.
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Martell Lawrence, 16, was fatally shot April 4 in the West Englewood community. Reader “Kenney” posted this about him:
Martell was a cool lil dude. He really didn’t deserve that….
RIP LIL HOMMIE
Juan Simpson / Photo from Facebook
Juan Simpson was fatally shot in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood Thursday night.
Simpson, 37, was standing in the 100 block of East 69th Street when gunfire erupted about 8:30 p.m. April 2, authorities said.
Simpson, of the 6900 block of South Indiana Avenue, was shot in the chest and died less than an hour later at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, authorities said.
According to Simpson’s Facebook page, he attended Corliss High School and studied at DeVry University.
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Quentin A. Thompson has died after being shot in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood last month.
Thompson, 27, was shot in the head and police found him on the ground in the 8800 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue about 9:15 a.m. March 28, authorities said.
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Martavian Emery, 21, was fatally shot April 26, 2014, in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Prosecutors said Emery directed a woman to a nearby home, where she was beaten and robbed, and her father came back and shot him. Reader Carla Coleman posted this about Emery:
I disagree he didn’t know anything was about to happened cause if he did the situation wouldn’t even ended like it did martavian was a loving caring person a sweet heart n I speak from experience being with that young man 24/7 365 a year for 6 whole years he wasn’t like how ppl tryna make him seemed
BY MICHAEL LANSU
Homicide Watch Chicago Editor
Nine males were shot to death, and two women were fatally stabbed, throughout Chicago last week.
Four of the killings happened over the weekend, when at least 18 other people were shot and wounded.
The most recent slaying happened when 42-year-old Carvis L. Milon was shot in the chest while standing on a sidewalk in the 7800 block of South Seeley Avenue in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood about 4:15 p.m. Saturday, authorities said.
Carvis, 8400 block of South Hoyne Avenue, died at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn less than an hour later, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
In the West Englewood community, 16-year-old Martell Lawrence shot in the head on a sidewalk the 6500 block of South Marshfield Avenue about 12:15 p.m. Saturday, authorities said.
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BY MICHAEL LANSU
Homicide Watch Chicago
Chicago Police got off to a rough start this year, with 30 percent more murders reported than in the first three months of 2014.
But residents of the Southwest Side’s Ashburn community don’t need a calculator to work out that killings are on the rise in their part of town.
Over the last decade, middle-class Ashburn has averaged less than four killings per year. This year, it’s suffered four murders already.
It’s come as a shock in a community that had a reputation for being relatively safe. Of its 42,000 residents, more than half of whom are black, about 83 percent have at least a high school degree. The median income is about $67,000 – above the average for Chicago, according to census data.
“It used to be really nice around here,” said Ayinde Brown, 19, who regularly visits his grandmother in Ashburn.
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BY MICHAEL LANSU
Homicide Watch Chicago Editor
When Linda Sanders was found in her Grand Boulevard home, the 60-year-old mother was lying in a pool of blood after being “battered almost beyond recognition,” prosecutors said.
Chicago Police detectives talked to relatives, technicians collected evidence and a private body removal service — which some officers have nicknamed “the body snatcher” — took Sanders’ body to the Cook County medical examiner’s office, where a forensic pathologist would determine the cause and manner of death.
The next day, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Stephen J. Cina determined Sanders died from “multiple blunt and sharp force injuries.” He ruled the death a homicide, and her son was charged with murder hours later.
“The police investigation focuses on if there was a crime committed, and then catching the bad guy,” Cina said. “Our investigation focuses on determining causes and manners of death. We run two independent investigations.”
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Milon L. Carvis was shot to death in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood Saturday afternoon.
Milon, 42, was part of a group standing on a sidewalk in the 7800 block of South Seeley Avenue when a gunman walked up and opened fire about 4:15 p.m. Saturday, authorities said.
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A 16-year-old boy was shot to death in the West Englewood neighborhood Saturday afternoon.
Police responding to a report of shots fired found Martell J. Lawrence shot in the head on a sidewalk the 6500 block of South Marshfield Avenue about 12:15 p.m., authorities said.
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