Homicide Watch Chicago

Marcus Childs was found shot to death Tuesday night in the Washington Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side.

Officers responding to a call of a person shot at 8:26 p.m. found the 23-year-old in the 1000 block of West 103rd Street, according to Chicago Police.

Childs was found unresponsive in a vehicle, according to Toya Smith, the victim’s aunt.

He had been shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:54 p.m. He lived in south suburban Calumet City.

The Cook County medical examiner’s office listed Childs as 29 years old and said he lived in West Englewood.

Area South detectives are conducting a homicide investigation, and no one was in custody as of Thursday.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Antonio “Tony” Larry died Tuesday of injuries suffered in a shooting a week earlier in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

Officers responded to a shooting at 1:12 p.m. Wednesday, May 24, at a home in the 6000 block of South Fairfield, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Inside the home, they found the 37-year-old Larry shot multiple times.

Larry, who lived on the same block as the shooting, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 8:07 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help with funeral expenses.

The author of the page wrote of Larry: “Tony was amazing friend and brother and son to his family friends and mother. He was not perfect but to his family he was their strength. … He never said no when someone needed help he truly was a rock. All of our lives he taught us so much about what family truly meant and how important it was to him…”

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Oscar Enrique Bravo died in a hospital Saturday afternoon, three days after being wounded in a shooting in the Southwest Side Gage Park neighborhood.

The 25-year-old Bravo was standing on the sidewalk in the 2600 block of West 54th Street at 12:52 p.m. Wednesday, May 24, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A red minivan pulled up, the driver got out of the vehicle and fired three shots, authorities said.

Bravo was struck in the upper right back and left hip; and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. He died there at 2:23 p.m. Saturday, police and the medical examiner’s office said.

Bravo lived about five blocks away from where he was shot.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help the family with funeral expenses.

The author of the page wrote of Bravo: “He was a very loving son, brother, uncle, friend. Oscar always did a lot of good things for others. … He was a very smart kid, he had a lot to live for and will be dearly missed from all his love ones, that really cared for him.”

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Sixteen-year-old Daishawn Moore was killed and a 16-year-old girl wounded in a shooting Sunday evening in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood.

The two teens were standing in a gangway about 6:30 p.m. in the 1600 block of South St. Louis, according to Chicago Police.

Someone then fired shots at them from a passing gray car, striking both children.

Moore was shot in the back and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died at 6:41 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Known as D-Moore, he lived just a few blocks away in the same neighborhood.

The girl suffered a graze wound to the back and was also taken to Mount Sinai, police said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A west suburban man who was killed more than a week ago in a shooting that left two other people wounded in the West Side Austin neighborhood has been identified Johnny Terrell Graves.

The group was walking at 1:08 a.m. on May 21 in the 4900 block of West Hubbard when shots rang out, according to Chicago Police.

All three were sturck by gunfire.

Graves, 34, was shot in the chest and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:53 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in west suburban Oak Park.

A 23-year-old woman was shot in the left hand, and a 33-year-old man was shot in the left shoulder, police said. They were also taken to Stroger Hospital, where their conditions were stabilized.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Krystoffer “Krys” Kelly was shot to death early Tuesday while sitting in a vehicle in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side.

The 21-year-old Harlan Community Academy High School graduate was inside a vehicle about 2:50 a.m. in the 5700 block of South Prairie, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Someone started shooting and Kelly was hit multiple times, including “once in the back through his heart,” according to police.

He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later at 3:54 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A man who died after being shot 10 days ago in the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side has been identified as Juan Carlos Olivarez.

The 43-year-old Olivarez was driving a van about 2:30 a.m. May 20 in the 4100 block of North St. Louis Avenue, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Someone opened fire from a passing vehicle, according to police, and he was struck in the back of the head. He was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he died at 3:45 p.m. the same day, authorities said.

Olivarez, who lived in northwest suburban Carpentersville, was a native of Santa Cruz Del Valle in Jalisco, Mexico.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help with funeral expenses for the father of five and grandfather of two.

The creator of the page wrote of Olivarez: “He was never known to turn down a favor to those in need of help. He brought joy to all of his friends, family, and loved ones. He was known to bring laughter to any room he entered.”

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN and JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times

Giovanni Rios | Illinois Dept. of Corrections

Giovanni Rios, 21, pleaded guilty to murder on May 19 murder before Judge Vincent Gaughan, according to Cook County court records.

Rios and 20-year-old Joseph Thrane were charged with fatally shooting the 20-year-old Feliciano about 4 p.m. on May 24, 2015, authorities said.

Feliciano, a car enthusiast, was driving around while three friends followed in separate vehicles, prosecutors said at the time. Rios and Thrane were in a black Saturn SUV with fellow Latin Kings flashing gang signs.
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A gunman walked up on a group Monday night in the South Side Englewood neighborhood and started shooting, leaving 17-year-old Jaywan Freeman dead and two others injured.

Freeman, another 17-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man were standing in the street about 9:50 p.m. in the 6900 block of South Harvard, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Another male walked up and opened fire, striking Freeman in the head. The Grand Crossing resident was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.

The other 17-year-old was shot in the left shoulder and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said. The 20-year-old man was shot in the abdomen and was taken to Stroger Hospital. Both of their conditions were stabilized.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A “domestic-related” argument in the West Side Austin neighborhood Monday afternoon left Oscar L. Clay dead.

The 52-year-old Clay got into an argument with a 27-year-old man in the 1700 block of North Narragansett at 1:32 p.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The younger man pulled out a handgun at some point and shot Clay, who lived in the same block as the shooting, several times, according to authorities.

He was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:45 p.m. An autopsy Tuesday found he died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Police said the shooting was domestic in nature, but did not provide further details. The shooter was not in custody as of Tuesday morning.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire