Sharine Catchings was found shot to death in a car early Wednesday behind a home in the Far South Side West Pullman neighborhood.
Sharine Catchings | Facebook
Officers were called at 1:15 a.m. about a suspicious vehicle in the 11900 block of South Yale, according to Chicago Police. They arrived to find a blue Buick Regal on a parking slab behind a home.
Catchings, 30, of the North Lawndale neighborhood was in the front passenger seat with a gunshot wound to the head, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. She was dead at the scene.
Her death was ruled a homicide. Area South detectives are investigating.
A third person has been charged with the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy in October in the Brighton Park neighborhood.
Santino Hernandez | Chicago Police
Santino Hernandez, 18, of the Galewood neighborhood, faces felony counts of first-degree murder and aggravated battery with the discharge of a handgun in the Oct. 26 death of Jeyson Gonzalez, according to Chicago Police.
Gonzalez and a 14-year-old boy were shot about 3:35 p.m. in the 2500 block of West 45th Street, authorities said. Gonzalez, of the West Englewood neighborhood, was struck in the side and the 14-year-old was struck in the lower back. Both were taken to Stroger Hospital, where Gonzalez died.
First-degree murder charges have also been filed against a 17-year-old boy and Flor Perez, 18, who prosecutors said was the getaway driver.Read more
James Jones, 38, was shot to death early Thursday in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, police said.
Jones was driving south through an alley with a female passenger at 1:35 a.m. in the 400 block of East 77th Street when they saw three males in the alley, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He drove up to the trio and the two groups exchanged words before one of the males pulled out a gun and shot him in the head, authorities said. Jones, of the Chatham neighborhood, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The female got out of the vehicle and ran away after the shooting, police said.
Police said she was being uncooperative with investigators.
Daimmyon Hackman was shot to death during an attempted robbery early Friday in the South Side Chatham neighborhood.
Daimmyon Hackman | Facebook
The 27-year-old Hackman, of downstate Bloomington, was sitting in a vehicle at 1:26 a.m. in the 7500 block of South St. Lawrence when someone walked up, pulled out a handgun and announced a robbery, according to Chicago Police. He refused to comply with the robber, who then shot him in his left armpit.
Hackman was pronounced dead at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn at 2:28 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Area South detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.
Daniel Nash was shot to death Friday evening in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
About 5:05 p.m., the 23-year-old Nash was in the 1500 block of South Ridgeway when a person walked up to him, fired shots and ran away, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Nash, who lived in downstate Fairview Heights, was shot in the head and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead less than 30 minutes later, authorities said.
Area Central detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.
Hakeem Murray was shot and killed Friday night in the Parkway Gardens neighborhood on the South Side.
Officers responded to a call of shots fired shortly before 8 p.m. and found the 22-year-old Murray lying on the ground in the 6400 block of South Calumet, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Murray had been shot multiple times and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:53 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the Englewood neighborhood.
Area Central detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.
At least 10 people were killed in Chicago the week of November 13-19, tipping the city’s homicide total past the 600 mark for the year.
The victims’ ages spanned from a 15 to 53, including two boys killed in the entrance of a building in Austin, and a man who died from assault at his home in West Rogers Park.
Trevonte Howard | Facebook
That 600th homicide happened Tuesday afternoon in a drive-by shooting that wounded two and killed one in the Austin neighborhood.
Trevonte T. Howard, 25, was was shot multiple times in the head from a shooter in a light-colored vehicle in the 500 block of South Lockwood, Police said.
Howard was pronounced dead at the scene, about a mile from where he lived, at 4:41 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Other homicides last week included:
A man was shot dead Monday evening in the Uptown neighborhood on the North side. At 6:03 p.m., a teenage boy between 15 and 17 fired shots at DeShawn Johnson in the 1200 block of West Leland and then ran away, police said. Johnson, 18, was fatally shot in the chest and was transported to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m.
Herbert Rohloff died last Friday morning, two weeks after he was assaulted at his home in West Rogers Park on the Northwest Side.
Rohloff, 53, was beaten about 2 p.m. on Nov. 1 at his home in the 6200 block of North Artesian, according to Chicago Police.
He was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, initially in serious condition, police said.
Rohloff was pronounced dead at 9:12 a.m. Friday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy Friday found he died of complications of multiple injuries in an assault, and his death was ruled a homicide.
Area North detectives were still investigating, and no one was in custody.
Anthony Collins was fatally shot Sunday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
Anthony Collins | Facebook
The 30-year-old Collins, of Maywood, was shot in the leg at 1:46 p.m. in the 1600 block of North Mango, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
He was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he was pronounced dead at 2:28 p.m, authorities said.
An autopsy Monday found he died of a gunshot wound to the groin and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Police initially reported the shooting was accidental, but further investigation revealed that someone fired shots before fleeing, police said. Area North detectives are conducting a Homicide investigation.
An 18-year-old woman who allegedly drove her boyfriend away from the scene of a fatal Brighton Park shooting that claimed the life of a 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder.
Flor Perez | Chicago Police
Flor Perez was ordered held in lieu of $75,000 bail Tuesday on a first-degree murder charge tied to the Oct. 26 shooting that left Jeyson Gonzalez dead and injured another teenage boy.
Cook County prosecutors allege that Perez, her boyfriend and another, unidentified man were in a Pontiac mini van in the 4400 block of South Maplewood Avenue when they passed Gonzalez and a 14-year-old friend, Assistant State’s Attorney Jason Coelho said.
The two men with Perez were members of the 2-6 street gang, and “false flagged” the teens, throwing up hand gestures of the rival Satan’s Disciples gang as they passed Gonzalez and the 14-year-old, Coelho said.
When Gonzalez returned the Satan’s Disciple gesture, the two men told Perez to drive the mini van into an alley nearby, then got out, walked toward Gonzalez and opened fire, Coelho said.Read more
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