Homicide Watch Chicago

Demetrius “Meechie” Miller was found shot to death Sunday afternoon in the Longwood Manor neighborhood on the Far South Side.

The 20-year-old was found unresponsive about 4:30 p.m. in the backyard of a home in the 9800 block of South Peoria, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Miller had suffered a gunshot wound to the back, and was pronounced at the scene at 4:53 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.

An autopsy Monday found he died of a gunshot wound to the buttocks, the medical examiner’s office said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Eugene Winters was killed and two other people were wounded in a Marquette Park neighborhood shooting late Friday on the Southwest Side.

At 10:50 p.m., the three were standing in the 2500 block of West Lithuanian Plaza Court when shots rang out, according to Chicago Police.

The 18-year-old Winters, known as “E-Man,” was shot in the head, and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 11:32 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived on the block where he was shot.

A 33-year-old woman was grazed in the head, was was taken to the same hospital in serious condition. A 34-year-old man was shot multiple times in the left shoulder. His condition was stabilized, police said.

No one was in custody.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Dominick Black was killed and another man wounded in a North Lawndale neighborhood shooting Friday afternoon on the Southwest Side.

At 12:07 p.m., Dominick Black and another man were standing on the sidewalk in the 1500 block of South St. Louis, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

An SUV approached, and multiple people got out and opened fire, police said.

The men, both 24 years old, were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, authorities said.

Black, whose home address was unknown, suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and legs, and was pronounced dead at 6:51 p.m., authorities said. The other man was shot in the foot and wrist, and his condition was stabilized.

The suspects got back in the vehicle and took off after the shooting.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Nikia Betts was killed and her 4-year-old son wounded in a shooting Friday evening that also left a man injured in a West Side Austin neighborhood alley.

The shooting happened at 5:19 p.m. in the 5200 block of West Kamerling, police said. Betts, her son, and a 19-year-old man were on a porch, and started walking down the alley when gunmen “ambushed” them, firing about a dozen shots, according to Chicago Police and witnesses.

The boy ran back down the alley and alerted relatives to the shooting.

They found Betts, 28, with a gunshot wound to the head. She was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she died about half an hour later 5:54 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
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Bond was denied for a 23-year-old man charged with a shooting last year that left 21-year-old Glennell Fairley dead and a teenage boy wounded.

William Stovall | Chicago Police

Stovall was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery, police said.

Fairley and the teen were playing basketball about 10:45 p.m. at Ogden Park in the 6500 block of South Racine when they both heard gunfire rang out, police said at the time.

Fairley was shot in the chest and left arm, and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 12:03 a.m. the next day, authorities said. He lived in the West Englewood neighborhood.
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By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

It took 30 years for a gunshot wound to kill Rodney Winters, so long that neither police nor the medical examiner’s office could say exactly when or where he was shot.

The 63-year-old Far South Side resident died in his Pullman neighborhood home, and the death was ruled a homicide, though the shooting took place decades ago.

Winters died at 12:45 p.m. June 20 in his home in the 900 block of East 104th Street, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy did not immediately rule on his cause and manner of death, but has since found that he died of complications from a remote gunshot wound. His death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Winters was shot about 30 years ago, according to a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office.

Chicago Police did not have information on the shooting and said there was was an open death investigation in the case.

Richard Harrison was shot to death Friday morning on the block where he lived in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.

The shooting happened at 9:44 a.m. in the 200 block of West 107th Street, according to Chicago Police.

The 23-year-old Harrison was shot in the head, arm and shoulder; and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 10:33 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Gregory Jackson died Thursday of injuries suffered in a fight the night before in the South Side Englewood neighborhood.

The 58-year-old Jackson was in a physical altercation Wednesday night in the 1500 block of West 63rd Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Police did not know who he was fighting with, but he suffered blunt trauma to the head.

Jackson was found unresponsive in bed the next morning, and pronounced dead at the scene at 9:40 a.m., authorities said.

An autopsy Friday found he died of subdural hematoma and multiple blunt force traumatic injuries, according to the medical examiner’s office. His death was ruled a homicide.

Area South detectives were investigating.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By TOM SCHUBA
Chicago Sun-Times WIre

Carol Matthews | Chicago Police

Wilson was stabbed in the left side of his chest at 1:36 a.m. July 27 in the 1500 block of South Millard, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Wilson, who lived on the same block, was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital at 2:01 a.m., authorities said.

Carol Matthews, 56, was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder, police said. A knife was recovered at the scene.

Matthews’ bond was set at $2 million during a court appearance Saturday, according to Cook County sheriff’s office records.

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Joseph Campbell was shot in March 2016 in the South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood. More than a year later, the 58-year-old died last week of injuries suffered in the shooting.

Campbell was shot in the face about 8:40 a.m. on March 8, 2016, in the 8200 block of South Emerald, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was taken to Stroger Hospital after the shooting.

Campbell, a West Englewood resident, died at 4:39 a.m. July 22 at the Oak Lawn Respiratory and Rehabilitation Center, according to the medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy Friday found he died of complications from the gunshot wound, and his death was ruled a homicide.

Police said Friday that no arrests have been made in the case.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire