Homicide Watch Chicago

Dayvy Rivas was standing on a porch in the West Side Austin neighborhood Monday night when a fight broke out nearby. Shots were fired and Rivas was struck in the head. He died several hours later.

Rivas, 43, was on the porch of a home in the 300 block of North Lorel about 11:10 p.m., Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Three people came out of a nearby gangway and started fighting, police said. During the fight, one of the people involved took out a gun and shot Rivas, who remained on the porch, authorities said.

He suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, police said.

Rivas lived in the Northwest Side Belmont Cragin neighborhood.

No suspects were in custody as Area North detectives investigate.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Diego Sandoval was killed and another man wounded in a shooting Monday evening in the Southwest Side Chicago Lawn neighborhood.

The men were driving south in the 2600 block of West 63rd Street at 10:10 p.m. when someone walked up to their vehicle and opened fire, according to Chicago Police.

Sandoval, 21 , was pronounced dead at Holy Cross Hospital at 10:30 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Police said Sandoval, who lived just a couple of blocks away, suffered a gunshot wound to the chest.

Another bullet grazed a 26-year-old man in the chest, and his condition was stabilized at Holy Cross, according to police.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By JACOB WITTICH and JEFF MAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Seventy-one-year-old Roy Winters was punched in the face in May in Chatham, and though he lived another month, the injuries from that assault finally caused his death, which has now been ruled a homicide.

Winters was punched by an unknown man during an argument about 7:30 p.m. May 8 in the 7700 block of South State Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He then fell unconscious to the ground, and was taken to Stroger Hospital for treatment, police said. Officers were never able to find the man who punched him.

On June 12, Winters died about 7:25 a.m. in a South Shore nursing home, and a death investigation was launched, police said.

Results of an autopsy were initially pending, but on Thursday, the medical examiner’s office ruled the death a homicide.

Winters, who had lived in the Southwest Side Gage Park neighborhood, died of pulmonary thromboembolism caused by deep vein thrombosis of both lower extremities, according to the medical examiner’s office. The condition was caused by immobility due to blunt force head injuries suffered in the assault.

Chicago Police have reclassified the incident a homicide, police said. No arrests have been made, and Area Central detectives are investigating.

Anthony White was killed and another teenager wounded in a shooting Sunday afternoon just a block away from his home in the South Side Park Manor neighborhood.

At 12:13 p.m., the 18-year-old White and a 15-year-old boy were outside in the 7000 block of South Vernon, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

They were approached by two or more people who opened fire, police said.

White was shot in the back and neck, and took himself to St. Bernard Hospital, where he died at 12:34 p.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office. He lived about a block away in the same neighborhood where he was shot.

The boy suffered a “minor” gunshot wound to the foot, and was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was in good condition, police said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Lavondell C. Noble was killed and three other men were wounded in a shooting Sunday morning in the South Side Avalon Park neighborhood, a shooting about which the victims gave differing accounts, police said.

The men were shot about 5:15 a.m. in the 1500 block of East 82nd Street, according to Chicago Police.

The 40-year-old Noble suffered gunshot wounds to the neck and right hand; and a 23-year-old man was shot in the face, police and Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Both showed up at South Shore Hospital, where they reported being shot at 5:45 a.m. in the 7900 block of South Phillips.

They were later transferred to Stroger Hospital, where Noble, a South Shore neighborhood resident known as “Slim,” died at 8:03 a.m, the medical examiner’s office said. The 23-year-old’s condition was not immediately known.

The other men gave a differing account of what happened, but police said the violence was connected, police said.

A 31-year-old man told investigators he was walking on the sidewalk in the 1500 block of East 82nd Street when someone in a white sedan opened fire, striking him in the groin and back, police said. He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition was stabilized.

A 34-year-old man was shot in the left forearm and was taken to Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, where his condition was stabilized, police said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By JEFF MAYES
Homicide Watch Chicago

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with fatally shooting Jermaine Brown in May in the Washington Park neighborhood in retaliation for a Facebook post about the suspect’s dead friend.

Landon Allen has been charged as an adult with one count of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.

The boy, who prosecutors claim killed 23-year-old Jermaine Brown on May 8, has been ordered held on a $1 million bond.

The shooting stemmed, according to Asst. State’s Attorney Jamie Santini, from an ongoing dispute over a Facebook post by Brown about a murder that had occurred several weeks prior.

Allen and a friend were angry over the post, believing it disrespected their friend, “Honcho,” the victim in the earlier killing.

About 7:42 p.m. on May 8, Allen and his friend approached Brown in the 5400 block of South Indiana, Santini said in court. They argued for a time before a witness intervened and said they should all talk it out.
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Damijwan Bonds, who had just recently moved back to Chicago from Florida, was shot to death Sunday night in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side.

The 18-year-old suffered gunshot wounds to both legs about 9 p.m. in the 5400 block of South Damen, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He later showed up at Holy Cross Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:59 p.m., authorities said.

Bonds originally attended Dunbar Vocational High School before moving to Tampa, Florida. He graduated from a Tampa high school earlier this summer, then returned to Chicago. Police said he was living about three blocks away from where he was shot.

The circumstances of the shooting weren’t immediately known, according to police, who are conducting a homicide investigation.

His uncle, Keith Townsend, wrote on Facebook: “Damijwan was loved. I remember meeting him for the first time. He was one of those kids that you said to yourself, ‘Now he’s not boring. He’ll be a man other men will follow.’

“I’m personally asking myself, how much more can or could I do? Will it even make a difference. I called my mom just to vent. What can we do to change the hearts of these young men? What can we do to give them a sense of hope and purpose?”

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire and Homicide Watch Chicago

Tayvion Roberson was killed and another man was seriously wounded in a Marquette Park neighborhood shooting Saturday night on the Southwest Side.

The 18-year-old known as “Tay” was standing on the sidewalk with a 56-year-old man at 9:41 p.m. in the 7100 block of South Artesian, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A male suspect walked up, pulled a gun and opened fire, police said.

Roberson was shot in the back and chest, and was taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:05 p.m., authorities said.

A Bogan High School graduate, Roberson lived in southwest suburban Oak Lawn, authorities said.

The older man suffered a gunshot wound to the side of his body and was listed in serious condition at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A man was killed in a drive-by shooting Thursday afternoon in the South Side Washington Park neighborhood has been identified as Izat Morrar.

Morrar, 37, was on the sidewalk at 3:52 p.m. in the 5300 block of South Calumet, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A vehicle drove by and someone inside opened fire, police said.

Morrar was shot multiple times in the head, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:10 p.m., authorities said.

He lived in the South Loop.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A man was shot to death Friday night in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side has been identified as Brendon Frazier.

Officers responded at 10:19 p.m. to a call of shots fired in the 8800 block of South Eggleston.

They found the 23-year-old Frazier with gunshot wounds to the buttocks and side of his body, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Frazier, who lived on the block where he was shot, was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:35 p.m., authorities said.

No one was in custody for the shooting Saturday morning.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire