Homicide Watch Chicago

Tra’don Sanders died after he was shot Sunday afternoon in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood.

Tra’don Sanders | Facebook

Sanders, 19, was in the 5000 block of South Winchester at 2:10 p.m. when someone walked up and fired multiple times, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Sanders, who lived nearby, was shot in the neck and head and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead within an hour, authorities said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

At least 11 people were killed in Chicago the week of Thanksgiving, from November 20-26, including a 61-year-old man who was mutilated by his son, prosecutors said.

Carlton Edmondson | Chicago Police

On Saturday night at 9 p.m., officers responding to a well-being check at a home in the 11500 block of South Bishop found Carl Edmondson, 61, in the basement with “severe blunt trauma to the head” and lacerations to his groin, according to Chicago Police.

He was pronounced dead on the scene at 9:44 p.m.

The victim’s 26-year-old son, Carlton Edmondson, was arrested and charged with the murder, prosecutors said. The son had been barred from visiting his father and had been served an order of protection taken out by his father just days before the killing.

After a raucous bond hearing, in which the younger Edmondson muttered and ranted, a judge ordered him held without bail.

Other homicides last week included:

Marquis Banks | Facebook

• About 9:30 p.m. Sunday, one man was killed and another was critically wounded in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side. The men were standing on a street corner in the 2600 block of West 63rd when three males walked up and fired shots in their direction, according to Chicago Police. Marquis Banks, 28, of the same neighborhood, was shot in the chest and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 10:05 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. A 27-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to his abdomen and was also taken to Christ, where he was listed in critical condition.Read more

Juan Jerome William Mason-Perry was fatally wounded Tuesday evening in a South Shore neighborhood shooting.

At 6:06 p.m., 20-year-old Mason-Perry was walking in the 2700 block of East 76th Street when someone walked up to him, fired shots and ran off, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was struck multiple times and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said. He lived in the Woodlawn neighborhood.

Area South detectives were investigating.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Dontae Simmons was shot to death during an argument Monday morning in the Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side.

Simmons, 29, was arguing with someone who then shot him in the face about 9 a.m. in the 1100 block of East 73rd Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Simmons, who lived in the Washington Park neighborhood, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m., authorities said.

An autopsy Tuesday found Simmons died of multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. His death was ruled a homicide.

No one is in custody as Area Central detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Marquis Banks, a 28-year-old father and all-around handyman, was shot to death after a group of men approached him in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood Sunday evening.

Marquis Banks | Facebook

For Banks’ extended family, his death marks the second relative lost to gun violence this year.

At about 9:30 p.m., Banks and at least one other man were standing on a street corner in the 2600 block of West 63rd when three males walked up and fired shots in their direction, police said.

Banks, who lived in the same neighborhood, was shot in the chest and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 10:05 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A 27-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to his abdomen and was also taken to Christ, where he was listed in critical condition.

Marquis Banks | Family photo

Banks was a father of four boys and three girls, with a baby on the way, his cousin, Chiquita Dorsey, said.

“He was strong-hearted, he was a muscle to the family,” Dorsey said. “I want people to remember him by his smile, his laid back personality and the love he had for family and kids.”

Banks’ younger cousin, Devonta Dorsey, was fatally shot last June.

“They have crushed our family for the second time this year,” Banks’ aunt, Tiffany Dorsey, said. “We are not over his cousin, my son, who was killed in June. He will forever live in my heart.”Read more

Mario Gaines was shot to death Sunday morning in the West Side Austin neighborhood.

The 18-year-old Gaines was shot multiples time when another male walked up and fired at him about 10:01 a.m. in the 200 block of North Lockwood, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Gaines was taken to Loretto Hospital, where he died at 10:14 a.m., authorities said. He lived about three blocks from where he was shot.

Area North detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Carlton Edmondson | Chicago Police

By ANDY GRIMM
Chicago Sun-Times

Just days after he was served with a court order barring him from coming near his father, Cook County prosecutors said Carlton Edmondson murdered the 61-year-old and mutilated the body in the basement of the older man’s West Pullman home.

He then allegedly posted several selfies on Facebook.

Led into court in shackles and white, jail-issued coveralls, the 26-year-old Edmondson muttered and ranted during a bond hearing Tuesday at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.

Picture Carlton Edmondson posted on Facebook after prosecutors said he killed his father. | Facebook

When Assistant State’s Attorney Julia Ramirez said that Edmondson was facing a single count of first-degree murder, in addition to pending charges for violating the order of protection taken out by his father on Nov. 20, Edmondson shouted.

“The order of protection is gone,” he said, smiling. “He is no longer living.”

Edmondson laughed softly to himself as Ramirez described how Carl Edmondson’s body was found Saturday at the bottom of the basement stairs of his home in the 11500 block of South Bishop – the skull crushed and blood and brain matter splattered on the floor and walls.

Carlton Edmondson shook his head and seemed to chuckle when Ramirez added that Carl Edmondson’s penis had been cut off.

The outbursts prompted Judge Stephanie Miller to order Carlton Edmondson out of the courtroom even before she ruled that he be held without bond.

Police went to the elder Edmondson’s house on the weekend after Carlton Edmondson’s uncle reported that he had stopped by and seen Carlton Edmondson inside the house, and knew that he not supposed to be there.Read more

Carl Edmundson was killed in an assault Saturday night on the Far South Side, authorities said.

About 9 p.m., officers responding to a well-being check at a home in the 11500 block of South Bishop found Edmundson, 61, in the basement with “severe blunt trauma to the head” and lacerations to his groin, according to Chicago Police.

He was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:44 p.m., police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

An autopsy Sunday found Edmundson died of multiple injuries from an assault, and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.

A male was taken to Area South headquarters for questioning, police said.

A police source said the incident appears to have been domestic-related.

Area South detectives are conducting the homicide investigation.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A 49-year-old man, Maurice Robinson, was killed and a second was wounded in a West Garfield Park neighborhood drive-by shooting last Monday.

Just after 5 p.m., Robinson and a 26-year-old man were in the first block of South Pulaski when a silver sedan drove by and someone inside opened fire and then drove off, Chicago Police said.

Robinson, of the Austin neighborhood, was shot multiple times and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:28 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The younger man was shot in the leg and was also taken to Stroger, where his condition was stabilized, police said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Manuel Salazar was shot to death Friday morning in the East Side neighborhood on the Far South Side.

The 22-year-old Salazar was a passenger in a vehicle at 10:18 a.m. in the 10000 block of South Avenue M when someone shot him from another vehicle, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:09 a.m., authorities said. Salazar lived in the same neighborhood as the shooting.

An autopsy found he died of a gunshot wound to the back, and his death was ruled a homicide.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire