Homicide Watch Chicago

A man killed in a drive-by shooting Sunday evening in the Brighton Park neighborhood that also left a woman wounded has been identified as Michael Robert Gonzalez.

Gonzalez and the woman, both 34, were in a vehicle at 7:52 p.m. in the 3600 block of South Western, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A dark-colored SUV pulled up next to their vehicle and someone inside fired shots, police said.

Gonzalez and the woman were both shot multiple times in the body and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. Gonzalez died there at 8:26 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said. The woman was listed in critical condition.

Gonzalez lived in the Pilsen neighborhood.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help the family with funeral expenses for man known to friends as Mike. It had raised over $2,700 toward a $5,000 goal in two days.

The author of the page wrote of Gonzalez: “We lost a dear friend, brother, son, and father. He was friends to many, a jokester, a loyal man who would never hesitate to help someone in need.”

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire and Homicide Watch Chicago

Corvel Denzel Brown was stabbed to death Sunday afternoon at the 95th Street Red Line station, just blocks away fro his home in the Far South Side Princeton Park neighborhood.

The 22-year-old was stabbed in the abdomen during an argument in front of the turnstile at the train station in the 0-100 block of West 95th Street at 12:37 p.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Brown, who lived several blocks away, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 2:36 p.m., authorities said.

The attacker got away, police said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A 27-year-old man shot to death late Saturday in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side has been identified as Gregory D. Johnson.

Johnson was in an argument with another man in the parking lot of a gas station in the 6600 block of South Halsted at 11:18 p.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The suspect then pulled out a handgun and fired shots, police said.

Johnson suffered gunshot wounds to the right shoulder and right arm, and was taken to St. Bernard Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:29 p.m., authorities said. He lived about two blocks away from where he was killed.

No one was in custody early Monday as Area South detectives investigated.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Darius Coakley | Chicago Police

Darius Coakley, 18; and Devin Sanders, 17, each face one count of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder, according to Chicago Police.

The shooting happened about 8:15 p.m. July 4 in the 1600 block of North Major, authorities said at the time.

Burdine, 56, was standing in front of a home when shots were fired from a vehicle, authorities said. He was shot in the head and was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he died at 12:43 a.m. on July 5, authorities said.

Burdine lived on the block where he was shot. Police said at the time that he was not believed to be the intended target of the shooting.

A 19-year-old man walking down the street was shot in the back and was taken in serious condition to Loyola, police said.

Coakley, of the Austin neighborhood, was ordered held without bond at the Cook County Jail in court Saturday, according to Cook County sheriff’s records. Court information for Sanders was not immediately available because he is a juvenile.

A shot to death Thursday evening in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood has been identified as 23-year-old Francina Lowery.

Lowery was found with multiple gunshot wounds by officers responding to a call of a person shot about 6:30 p.m. in the 4400 block of West Haddon, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

She was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.

A resident of Roseland, according to authorities, Lowery was originally from south suburban Richton Park, where she attended Rich South Campus High School.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

William D. Moore was killed Thursday morning in a Gresham neighborhood shooting on the South Side.

The 19-yaear-old Moore was sitting in a vehicle at 11:02 a.m. in the 8500 block of South Justine, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A black SUV drove up and someone inside fired shots, striking Moore several times, police said.

He was found in the vehicle by responding officers, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:16 a.m., authorities said.

An autopsy Friday determined Moore died of multiple gun shot wounds, the medical examiner’s office said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A south suburban woman has been charged with fatally stabbing Kelvin Harper Wednesday afternoon in his Washington Heights neighborhood home on the Far South Side.

Ramona Howard | Chicago Police

Officers were called to an apartment about 2 p.m. Wednesday in the 800 block of West 103rd Street found the 63-year-old Harper unresponsive with multiple stab wounds, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Harper was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.

Howard, a Calumet City resident, was ordered held without bond on Saturday.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Jonathan “Jon” Halbert was killed in a shooting near his Gresham neighborhood home Thursday evening on the South Side, but may not have been the intended target.

The 30-year-old Halbert was outside about 6:10 p.m. in the 8200 block of South Carpenter, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A family member said he was in his own driveway, where children were also playing, when he was shot, and that he was not shooter’s intended target.

Two people walked up to him from an alley and shot him in the legs and shoulders, police said.

Halbert was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 6:59 p.m, authorities said.

An autopsy Friday determined Halbert died of multiple gun shot wounds, the medical examiner’s office said.

He was a 2005 graduate of Carver Area High School, a father, and was engaged to be married.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By JEFF MAYES
Homicide Watch Chicago

Sun-Times file photo by Ashlee Rezin

As of July 6, 2016, there had been 341 homicides reported, according to Chicago Sun-Times statistics. As of July 6, 2017, there have been 349.

Of the fatal shootings reported last week, four of the incidents resulted in two or more people being killed, including a triple-fatal homicide in the South Side Englewood neighborhood.

That was one of only three incidents for which suspects have been arrested and charged.

Two men are being held without bond, charged with fatally shooting the three men Friday night. Timothy Gordon, 19, and Jayden Dorsey, 21, both face three counts of first-degree murder, according to Chicago Police.

Cook County prosecutors said the pair walked up to an apartment building in the 5700 block of South Wells about 8:50 p.m. and opened fire, spraying the building with more than 40 shots.

Javon Jackson, 30, was struck eight times and died at Northwestern Memorial Hospital on Friday night. Sedrick Ringer, 50, suffered nine gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. And the next day, relatives came to the house and found John Hunter, 52, dead in his apartment with a wound to his thigh, authorities said. Police found 43 shell casings outside the house.
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Devonte M. Morgan was killed early Wednesday in a Gresham neighborhood shooting on the South Side.

The 21-year-old Morgan was standing on the street at 1:44 a.m. in the 7900 block of South Paulina, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Someone then walked up to him and fired shots, police said.

Morgan was shot in the back, and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead 3:05 a.m., authorities said.

A resident of the Park Manor neighborhood, Morgan attended Wendell Phillips Academy High School.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire