Marshall Palm was killed in a drive-by shooting Friday afternoon a couple of blocks from his home in the Princeton Park neighborhood on the South Side.
The 27-year-old Palm was in the 200 block of West 95th Street at 3:51 p.m. when suspects fired shots from a light-colored SUV, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Palm, who lived just two blocks away, was shot at least once and was taken to Roseland Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead less than an hour later at 4:40 p.m., authorities said.
Antonio L. Wilson was shot to death Thursday evening in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side.
About 6 p.m., the 30-year-old Wilson was in the 5100 block of South Prairie when someone got out of a vehicle and fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Wilson, of the Gresham neighborhood, was struck in the head and died at the scene, authorities said.
Seventeen-year-old Davion Toney was slain and two other people were wounded in a Humboldt Park neighborhood shooting Thursday evening on the West Side.
About 6:15 p.m., the three were standing outside in the 1100 block of North Hamlin Avenue when a dark-colored car pulled up, according to Chicago Police.
Two people got out and the vehicle and started shooting at the group.
Toney was shot in the head, and died at Mount Sinai Hospital at 7 p.m., authorities said. He lived just a few blocks away in same the neighborhood, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
An autopsy Friday found he died of multiple gunshot wounds, the medical examiner’s office said.
A 24-year-old man shot in the left leg and side was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, along with a 33-year-old woman in good condition with an ankle wound, police said.
No one was in custody for the shooting as of Friday morning.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Jose Antonio Jimenez was working Wednesday evening, driving his tow truck in the South Chicago neighborhood, when he was shot to death.
Jimenez, 32, was driving a 2006 Chevrolet tow truck south in the 8800 block of South Houston at 8:35 p.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Someone fired shots at the truck and Jimenez was hit.
He suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the left side of his abdomen, and drove to the 9100 block of South South Chicago, where the truck crashed through a wrought iron fence, police said.
Jimenez was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:20 p.m., authorities said.
He lived in southwest suburban Evergreen Park.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Tevin M. Davis was shot to death Tuesday night in the Near West Side neighborhood.
The 23-year-old Davis was inside a parked vehicle in the 2700 block of West Gladys about 8:30 p.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
That’s when when someone walked up to the vehicle and shot him in the head.
Davis, who lived in the North Lawndale neighborhood, was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:46 p.m., authorities said.
An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds, and his death was ruled a homicide.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Life was never easy for Jervon Morris. The special needs student had lost most of his eyesight by age 2, and had other physical and mental impairments.
His death was not easy either. On Memorial Day, the 20-year-old lost his life to gun violence just a block from his Longwood Manor neighborhood home on the South Side.
Morris, born with born with cataracts, lost the sight in one eye at age 1, and had lost most of the sight in the other by age 2.
But he overcame that handicap in a big way, and loved to draw, play basketball and volunteer for park programs, friends and family wrote on Facebook.
“He hated when people called him blind. He could see, not as great as everyone else, but some of his shots still went in,” a relative wrote. Read more
A woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for a DUI in a crash that left Carlos De Lourdes dead last year in the Southwest Side Brighton Park neighborhood.
Tania A. Reyna, 40, pleaded guilty on May 24 to two counts of aggravated DUI in an accident causing death before Judge Nicholas Ford, according to Cook County court records. She was initially charged with reckless homicide with a motor vehicle, and aggravated DUI for an accident causing death.
About 11:45 p.m. on July 5, 2016, Reyna was driving south on California Avenue about 89 mph when she disobeyed a stop sign and struck a vehicle heading east on 44th Street, authorities said at the time.
The eastbound vehicle, driven by the 28-year-old De Lourdes, then struck two poles, and debris from the crash broke a storefront window. Read more
A North Side woman has been sentenced to seven years in prison for stabbing her mother’s boyfriend, Anthony Price, to death in the Rogers Park neighborhood in 2013.
Dezerai Gardner, now 22, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on May 24 before Judge Thomas Byrne, according to Cook County court records.
About 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 1, 2013, Gardner stabbed the 35-year-old Price in the chest during a domestic argument in the 7300 block of North Seeley Avenue, authorities said at the time. Read more
Oscar L. Clay helped his wife escape from the Austin apartment they shared with her son Monday, holding the front door shut from the outside as his stepson stood inside with a 9-millimeter pistol, Cook County prosecutors said in court Wednesday.
As Clay’s wife ran from their apartment in the 1700 block of North Narragansett, she screamed for help, then heard gunshots from inside.
As she hid between two parked cars, she watched her son, 27-year-old Leshaun Hodges, walk out of the building and drive off in a car they shared, Assistant State’s Attorney Nora Gill said at Hodges’ bond hearing.
Police found Clay’s body in the living room of the apartment the three had shared since Hodges was paroled on an armed robbery charge last year.
Clay had been shot six times: four times in the chest; once each in the head and back, Gill said. The 52-year-old was pronounced dead at Illinois Masonic Hospital. Read more
By JEFFMAYES
Homicide Watch Chicago
Chicago Police geared up for the Memorial Day weekend by adding more than 1,200 officers to the ranks for the unofficial start of summer. They also arrested dozens of suspected gang members, hoping to stem weekend violence by keeping them off the streets.
And while the weekend started calmly, with only one fatal shooting the first two days, a rash of violence earlier in the week still left last week’s death toll at 12.
The only fatal shooting reported during the first days of the holiday weekend was a 16-year-old boy who was killed in a shooting Sunday evening in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood, an incident that also left a and a 16-year-old girl wounded.
The teens were in a gangway about 6:30 p.m. in the 1600 block of South St. Louis when someone fired shots at them from a passing gray car, according to police. Daishawn Moore, 16, was shot in the back and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died minutes later, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He lived in the same neighborhood as where the shooting happened. The girl suffered a graze wound to the back and was also taken to Mount Sinai, police said. Read more
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Homicide Watch Chicago is dedicated to the proposition that murder is never a run-of-the-mill story. Attention must be paid to each one, not merely a select and particularly tragic few. We understand the reality of the public’s demand for news - that some stories get more attention than others. But all murders represent a degree of human suffering - direct and indirect - that cannot be ignored. Read more…
