Homicide Watch Chicago

On the morning of May 19, Brandon Phipps was sitting in a vehicle a couple of blocks from his home in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood when someone started shooting.

The 30-year-old was struck in the left side and was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died just over a week later.

Phipps was sitting in a vehicle about 9:15 a.m. May 19 in the 3100 block of West 13th when someone got out of another vehicle and fired shots, striking him in his left side, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Phipps was taken to Mount Sinai, where he died Saturday at 5:18 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy Monday found he died of multiple gunshot wounds, the medical examiner’s office said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Bobby Lloyd was at home Thursday morning in West Englewood when a man forced his into the apartment and started shooting.

Waddel Adams | Chicago Police

Prosecutors have 31-year-old Waddel Adams with the murder of the 30-year-old Lloyd, and a judge has ordered him held without bond.

Adams, who lives in Englewood, was arrested about 15 minutes after the shooting in the 6700 block of South Throop, police said.

Adams was identified as the armed suspect who forced his way into Lloyd’s apartment at 11:47 a.m. in the 6500 block of South Laflin, Chicago Police said. Adams allegedly fired a gun at Lloyd, striking him multiple times in the chest and torso.
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Eighteen-year-old Chastity Johnson was killed and a teenage boy wounded Thursday afternoon in an Avalon Park neighborhood shooting on the South Side.

Johnson and a 17-year-old boy were walking about 2:30 p.m. in the 8100 block of South Kimbark,
according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Two people walked up to them and fired shots, according to police.

Johnson was shot in the chest and died an hour later at Stroger Hospital, according to the medical examiner’s office. She lived several blocks from the scene in the same sneighborhood.

An autopsy Friday found she died of multiple gunshot wounds, and her death was ruled a homicide.

The boy was shot in the back and the leg, and was taken to Stroger in critical condition, police said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A man found shot in his vehicle Thursday morning in the South Chicago neighborhood was identified as 27-year-old Scott T.L. Coleman, according to authorities.

Officers were called at 8:06 a.m. to check the well-being of a man in a car in the 8200 block of South Escanaba, according to Chicago Police.

They Coleman slumped over inside the vehicle with a gunshot wound, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Coleman was taken to Trinity Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, officials said. He lived just a block away from where he was found.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Sixteen-year-old Alandis Allison was found shot to death Wednesday night in the South Shore neighborhood.

Officers responded to a call of shots fired about 9:20 p.m. in the 7700 block of South Marquette, according to Chicago Police.

They found the boy lying on the ground with gunshot wounds, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Allison, who lived about three blocks away, had been shot at least once in the head. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:11 p.m., authorities said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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By ELIZABETH CZAPSKI
Homicide Watch Chicago

Tenisha Mallett was working on going back to school, hoping to make a better life for herself and young daughter.

She attended the Austin Career Education Center, and was interested in culinary arts, her mother, Yvonne Mallett, said.

Yvonne, who recently moved to Indiana, offered to watch her then-3-year-old granddaughter, Ta’zarry, while Tenisha settled in and prepared for school. On a Thursday in February, Tenisha, 21, traveled back to Chicago.

“When I took her to the train station, her daughter started crying, and then it made me cry, and it was hard for her to leave. But then she said, ‘I’ll be back next week, soon as I get settled, I’ll be back next week to get her,’” Yvonne Mallett said. “She didn’t want to leave her.”
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By JEFF MAYES
Chicago Sun-Times

Ten more people died from violence in Chicago last week, and that number could go up after police and medical examiner’s investigations are complete.

The dead included nine people who were shot, and a man who was stabbed in his home.

The number does not include a woman run down by a car, an incident which witnesses claimed was intentional; and a woman whose body was found in a trash can. In both cases, autopsy results were inconclusive, with results pending further investigation.

The weekend’s last homicide occurred when a man was killed and a teenage boy wounded in a shooting Sunday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood. The shooting happened about 2:40 p.m. in the 100 block of North Parkside, Chicago Police said.

Jerrelle Elton Johnson Jr., 18, was shot in the back and was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:52 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived on the Near West Side.
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Lamanta Reese was shot to death Tuesday night in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.

Witnesses to the shooting told police that a male suspect with a handgun fired shots at the 19-year-old Reese at 7:47 p.m. in the 700 block of West Marquette Road, Chicago Police and Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Reese, who lived in the South Shore neighborhood, was struck multiple times, authorities said.

He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn with gunshot wounds to his head, groin, shoulder and abdomen; and was pronounced dead there at 8:29 p.m., authorities said.

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

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Jose Gomez was shot and killed early Tuesday just a block from his home in the East Side neighborhood on the Far South Side.

Gomez, 28, was in his vehicle at 2:11 a.m. in the 9800 block of South Avenue H, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Friends told police the father of one had just left them and was heading home.

But another vehicle drove up and someone inside fired shots before driving away, according to police.

Gomez was shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:31 a.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

Friends said he lived just a block from where he was shot.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Jamie Jones was shot to death Monday evening while driving in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.

At 7:52 p.m., the 27-year-old Jones was driving west in the 200 block of West 59th Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Another vehicle then pulled alongside and someone inside opened fire, police said.

Jones was struck in the chest, back and arm, authorities said.

The South Side Park Manor neighborhood resident was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died about four hours later at 11:55 p.m., authorities said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire