Gabriel Guardiola was sentenced to more than 50 years in prison Monday for the murder of a friend who refused to get into a car with him after a night of partying.
Guardiola, 38, had been convicted of first-degree murder for fatally shooting Cicero resident Ricardo Rivera on Feb. 24, 2013. On Monday, Judge Joseph M. Claps sentenced him to 55 years in prison, according to court records.
He will receive credit for more than two years spent behind bars while awaiting trail, according to court records. Read more
Scene where two men were fatally shot / Photo by Ashlee Rezin
BYFRANSPEILMANANDASHLEEREZIN
Chicago Sun-Times
Bucktown Ald. Scott Waguespack (32nd) demanded Monday that Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration crack the whip against bars and nightclubs with a history of police complaints after a nightclub fight spilled out into the street and triggered the fatal shooting of two people.
The men got into a fight about 3:10 a.m. Monday inside Dolphin Chicago in the 2200 block of North Ashland Avenue and were escorted out of the club by security guards, according to police. They were standing in a crowd on the sidewalk outside when shots rang out.
Waguespack’s ward includes the Dolphin, a frequent target of neighbor complaints. The alderman wrote on his Facebook page that the nightclub, which holds a 4 a.m. liquor license, should have been closed long ago because it has been the target of chronic neighbor complaints. Read more
Six men were fatally shot, one man was stabbed to death and a baby had her neck slashed with a saw in slayings throughout Chicago last week.
Four of the slayings happened over the weekend, when at least 24 other people were shot and wounded.
The most recent killings happened when 23-year-old Andre Chatman and 28-year-old Carey Hollis were shot while in a car in the 5800 block of West North Avenue in the Austin community about 3:45 p.m. Sunday, police said. Read more
Two men were killed in a drive-by shooting in the Austin neighborhood Sunday afternoon.
Andre Chatman, 23, and Carey Hollis, 28, were in a car traveling east in the 5800 block of West North Avenue when another vehicle pulled alongside and a gunman opened fire about 3:45 p.m. Sunday, authorities said.
Both men were struck by the gunfire, but the car was able to continue eastbound another block before crashing into a pole, police said. Read more
A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot in the Portage Park neighborhood Sunday afternoon.
Giovanni Matos was walking with two friends in the 5800 block of West Patterson Avenue when a gray car pulled up and an argument ensued about 12:50 p.m. Sunday, authorities said.
During the argument, a gunman exited the car and opened fire, police said. Read more
Chicago Police released a video Sunday of two suspects in a Roseland shooting that killed 77-year-old Odell Branch Sr. and left three others wounded, including Branch’s 5-year-old great-grandson and another 2-year-old boy.
A police source said shooting was an exchange of gunfire was between two rival gangs when a small group on the street opened fire on Branch’s teenage great-grandson. Some of the bullets instead went into the home and struck Branch and the child, authorities said. Read more
Tiara Groves’ death was featured in a Chicago Magazine article last year, which focused on how authorities reclassify homicides — which, in turn, skews crime statistics.
The 20-year-old’s family believes she was murdered.
And, indeed, Groves’ death was considered a murder until Dec. 18, 2013, when Chicago Police changed the matter from a homicide investigation to a noncriminal death investigation after the Cook County medical examiner’s office determined the cause of death to be a homicide by “unspecified means,” according to the magazine story.
On Friday, Groves’ neighbor along with a man who goes by the nickname “Wicked” appeared in court to face concealment of death charges tied to the Austin woman’s last days.
Albert Turnage talked about going back to school because he wanted to be a positive role model for his son, his former foster parent said.
Turnage will never get the chance to watch his son grow up after the 23-year-old was fatally shot in the 1700 block of West Touhy Avenue on his son’s sixth birthday, police and family said.
Officers responding to a call of a person shot found Turnage and another man in an alley about 4:10 a.m. Feb. 25, authorities said.
Turnage, of the 1700 block of West Greenleaf Avenue, was shot in the chest and died at Presence Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston about two hours later, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The other man, 30, was shot multiple times and was treated at Saint Francis Hospital, police said.
“I know for a fact that it was not anything that was targeted against him, he was not in a gang,” said Turnage’s foster parent Katie Cangemi. “I do think that it was an act of violence related to the problems in Rogers Park.” Read more
Javier Garza (L) and Damien Garza (R) / Photos from Chicago Police
BYLEEANNSHELTON
Sun-Times Media
Two men were convicted of murder Wednesday for a 2013 shooting that killed a 14-year-old boy on the Southwest Side.
Michael Orozco was on his way to an ice cream shop with friends about 4:30 p.m. April 7 when he was fatally shot in the chest in the 2200 block of South Leavitt Street, authorities said.
Prosecutors said Javier Garza, 19, shot Michael in an apparent attempt to avenge his father’s murder. Read more
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