Two teenagers, Charlie Lawrence and Tyree Wise, were fatally shot, and a 14-year-old girl wounded, in a robbery in the Austin neighborhood Thursday.
Tyree Wise | Facebook
At 5:45 p.m., someone entered the vestibule of a building and demanded the three teens’ property before opening fire in the 5600 block of West Washington Boulevard, police said.
Lawrence, a 15-year-old from the Roseland neighborhood, was shot in the back, authorities said. Wise, a 16-year-old from Austin, was shot in the head. They both were pronounced dead at the scene less than 15 minutes later.
The girl was shot in the right leg and took herself to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where her condition was stabilized.
Area North detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.
Leroy Moore, a 70-year-old retiree of GE, is remembered by his son and nephew as a “happy-go-lucky” guy who could always be found by listening for his powerful laugh.
Howard Moore | Facebook
“If he was at a big party and you wanted to find him, all you’d have to do is stand there and listen for his laugh,” said Moore’s son, Shurone Moore. “His laugh was always the loudest.”
Leroy Moore was killed while walking back from a store with a friend in the Park Manor neighborhood on July 18. Two cars sped down the 7100 block of South State Street with people inside firing shots at each other, Chicago Police said at the time.
Moore suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was taken to Stroger Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 8:53 p.m., authorities said.
“It was total shock, you know, and unbelievable pain,” said Moore’s nephew, Howard Moore, assistant basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin. “When my dad told me that my Uncle Leroy was struck by a stray bullet, it was the last thing I was prepared for.”
Moore loved to fish, and was always asking friends and family if he should bring them back catfish, Shurone Moore said.
“That’s the kind of person he was,” he said. “Always looking out for people. He truly will be missed. He was always a good dad, always there for us, always helping me and my friends out in any situation.”Read more
Dashon Campbell was fatally shot while he was driving on the Dan Ryan Thursday evening.
Dashon Campbell | Facebook
Two vehicles were seen driving erratically in the northbound lanes of I-90/94 near 51st Street at about 5:15 p.m., State police said.
Gunshots were heard and then the 22-year-old Campbell’s car crashed into a wall along the expressway. The other vehicle continued driving north.
Campbell, who lived in the Fuller Park neighborhood, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:53 p.m., authorities said.
Two of his passengers, a 2-year-old girl and 22-year-old woman, were taken in good condition to St. Bernard Hospital for treatment of injuries related to the crash. A third passenger, an 18-year-old woman, declined medical attention at the scene.
Miah Scott says participating in the Guitars Over Guns program during her final semester at Beethoven Elementary School helped her find the strength to get through some tough times and help her peers in Chicago do the same.
“I know Guitars Over Guns pulled that out of me. It helped me find that little itty bit of strength I needed to get through hard times,” the 14-year-old said.
Guitars Over Guns is a nonprofit, arts-based mentoring program with locations in Miami and Chicago, where it currently operates at four schools.
Students work with mentors during school hours and after school to bring their creativity to life based on their various talents. The program encourages students to “choose your sound” and express yourself through music or any art form. Scott, for example, shared her original poetry with other students.
“If you go into the program and don’t think you can do something, you learn from the teachers and other kids that you can do anything,” she said.
The Guitars Over Guns Organization (GOGO) started as an informal volunteer music mentoring project for youth from underserved neighborhoods in Miami, according to its website. The popularity led to it being formalized and offered in local schools in collaboration with Communities In Schools Miami.
The first official program started at North Miami Middle School in 2008. Over the last nine years, it has expanded to seven schools and several community centers in Miami and Chicago, with the curriculum expanded to includes dance, visual arts and annual summer camps.
In Chicago, there are programs at Evergreen Academy in McKinley Park, Beethoven Elementary in Fuller Park, UCAN Academy in Humboldt Park, and Haven Studio at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Oakland, according to Andrew DeMuro. Read more
At least 5 people were killed by violence in Chicago the week of Nov. 6-12, including two 29-years-old shot together in the Brighton Park neighborhood and pronounced dead at the scene.
Sun-Times file photo by Ashlee Rezin
The two men Alejandro Arellano and Angel Rosario, were killed early Sunday as they were walking in the 2400 block of West 47th Place at about 1:55 a.m. An eastbound gray Toyota Corolla pulled up and a male shooter got out and opened fire, police said.
The shooter then got back inside the vehicle, which drove off heading toward Western. One man was shot in the chest and the other was shot in the head and neck, police said. The shooting was believed to be gang-related, police said.
Other homicides last week included:
A downstate man was found shot to death inside a home Wednesday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood. Ramon X. Williams, 37, was found with a gunshot wound to the chest in the 900 block of North LeClaire at 1:17 p.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Williams, a Kankakee resident, was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:33 p.m., authorities said. An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds, and his death was ruled a homicide.
Trevonte T. Howard was fatally shot and two other men wounded in an attack Tuesday night in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
Trevonte Howard | Facebook
The three men were shot by someone firing from a light-colored vehicle shortly after 4 p.m. in the 500 block of South Lockwood, Chicago Police said.
Howard, 25, was was shot multiple times in the head and pronounced dead at the scene at 4:41 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the same neighborhood as the shooting, about a mile from where he was killed.
A 32-year-old man was shot in the groin and buttocks, and a 28-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the head. Both of their conditions were stabilized at Stroger Hospital.
Miguel “Silky” Ford was shot to death Wednesday afternoon in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
Miguel Ford | Facebook
Ford, whose “whole life was football,” had played for Romeoville High School and had a full-ride scholarship to play for Robert Morris University, where he was a running back, his friend Hayley Malone said.
The 21-year-old Ford was sitting in his vehicle about 2:15 p.m. in the 6600 block of South Paulina when another male walked up and pulled out a gun, police said.
Ford tried to drive away as the shooter fired and he was struck in the back. His vehicle then crashed into a tree and overturned.
He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 2:44 p.m., police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Ford’s residence was listed as southwest suburban Romeoville.
A 17-year-old boy who was also in the vehicle at the time was taken to Christ Medical Center with minor injuries related to the crash, police said.
“He didn’t deserve to go so soon,” one of Ford’s close friends said. “He always put others before himself and took care of his loved ones.”Read more
Two days after he was shot in the head, Exavian C. Davis died from wounds inflicted during a drug deal in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, authorities said.
The shooting happened Saturday at about 2:45 p.m., when the 25-year-old Davis “was involved in a narcotics related transaction” and someone he knew pulled out a gun and shot him in the head in the 3900 block of West Van Buren, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:39 a.m. Monday, authorities said. He lived about two blocks from where he was shot.
DeShawn Johnsonwas fatally shot in the Uptown neighborhood Monday evening, just a block from a previous fatal shooting in a Starbucks earlier this month.
DeShawn Johnson | Facebook
At 6:03 p.m., Johnson was in the 1200 block of West Leland when someone approached and fired shots, police said.
The 18-year-old Johnson was struck in the chest and taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m., Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Johnson “loved to chill with his homies and laugh and have a good time,” his friend, Roland Watkins, said.
“He was a character. He was very funny and cared for the people that were around him,” Watkins said.
Johnson attended Senn High School of the Edgewater neighborhood, Watkins said.
Johnson’s shooter was described as a boy between 15 and 17 years old, police said.
The shooting took place within a block of a homicide earlier this month inside a Starbucks, in which 28-year-old Sauvignon Watkins was fatally shot and a 12-year-old boy and a 24-year-old man were injured.
Devon J. Thomas was fatally shot inside an apartment in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood Monday evening.
Thomas, 27, was shot in the jaw and eye at 4:58 p.m. inside an apartment in the 6900 block of South Prairie, authorities said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:19 p.m. His home address was not immediately known.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
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