Jeremy Scullark was killed and another man wounded in a shooting Wednesday evening on the Chinatown feeder ramp to the Dan Ryan Expressway on the South Side.
The shooting happened at 5:12 p.m. in the westbound lanes of I-90/94 near Exit 53A, according to Illinois State Police.
The men were shot when another man got out of his vehicle on the Chinatown feeder ramp and fired shots into their vehicle, ISP said.
Scullark, 28, was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:24 p.m.; and the other man was taken to a hospital with injuries that weren’t life-threatening, according to ISP and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Read more
Javontay Tolliver was shot to death early Monday near a CTA Red Line station on the South Side, and the following day, a man was charged with his murder.
Fredrick Stewart | Chicago Police
Fredrick Stewart, 33, faces a felony count of first-degree murder, Chicago Police announced Tuesday night.
Stewart is accused of killing the 34-year-old Tolliver during an argument at 2:39 a.m. Monday in the 200 block of West Garfield Boulevard, near the Garfield Red Line station, authorities said. On Wednesday, he was ordered held without bond.
Tolliver, of the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, was shot three times—in the chest, back and head—and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 3:53 a.m., the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Read more
Brittany “Bonnie” Leflore was shot to death late Tuesday less than a block from her home in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Officers responded about 11:35 p.m. to a call of a person shot and found the 22-year-old lying on the sidewalk in the 10700 block of South Indiana, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Leflore had been shot in the abdomen and left ankle, and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she was pronounced dead at 12:13 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said. The 2013 Corliss High graduate lived less than a block away from the shooting scene.
Family members said she had been dropped off after going out with friends, and they do not believe she was the intended target.
Area South detectives are investigating.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A man has been charged with fatally shooting Arsennial Allen earlier this month outside a store in the South Chicago neighborhood on the South Side.
Jaquel Foots, 20, faces one count of first-degree murder in connection with the April 6 shooting, according to Chicago Police.
At 3:22 p.m. that day, the 28-year-old Allen was standing in front of a store in the 2300 block of East 83rd Street, when a gunman walked up and shot him in the head, authorities said.
Arsennial Allen | gunmemorial.org
Allen, a South Shore neighborhood resident, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died less than two hours later, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. An autopsy ruled his death a homicide.
Foots, who lives in the Lawndale neighborhood, was arrested Saturday after being identified as the shooter, police said.
On Sunday, he was ordered held at Cook County Jail on a $2 million bond, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office.
A man has been charged with an Auburn Gresham neighborhood shooting that left Courtney Lewis dead and another man critically wounded earlier this month on the South Side.
Curtis Conner, 25, faces one count of first-degree murder, one count of aggravated battery with discharge of a firearm, and three counts of attempted first-degree murder, all felonies, according to Chicago Police.
About 12:30 p.m. April 2, the 20-year-old Lewis was with three other people inside a car in the 8200 block of South Ada when shots rang out, authorities said. Read more
Kristopher Reed was killed and a woman was critically wounded in a South Shore neighborhood drive-by shooting Monday morning.
The 26-year-old woman was driving a vehicle with the 25-year-old Reed in the passenger seat about 11:25 a.m. in the 7000 block of South Chappel, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Another vehicle drove by and someone inside opened fire, striking both victims multiple times, according to police.
Reed, who lived in the same neighborhood, was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:53 a.m., the medical examiner’s office said.
The woman was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she was listed in critical condition, police said.
Tywan Anderson was killed and another man was wounded in a Douglas Park neighborhood shooting early Easter Sunday on the Southwest Side.
The pair was standing outside at 2:27 a.m. in the 1300 block of South Fairfield when a male suspect opened fire, according to Chicago Police.
Witnesses said they heard people arguing and bottles breaking before hearing multiple gunshots.
Anderson, 23, suffered gunshot wounds to the head and back, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:57 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. His home address was unknown.
A 19-year-old man was shot in the left hand, and also taken to Mount Sinai, where his condition was stabilized, police said.
Nineteen-year-old Fontaine T. Sanders died Tuesday, one day after being shot in an attack that left another man injured in the West Side North Lawndale neighborhood.
Sanders, known as BJ, and a 20-year-old man were in the 4300 block of West 15th Street about noon Monday when someone got out of a vehicle and fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Sanders was shot in the head, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:59 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. He lived in the same neighborhood, just a few blocks away from where he was shot.
The older man was shot in the arm, and was taken in good condition to Stroger Hospital, police said.
A man shot to death Wednesday morning in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side has been identified as 26-year-old Darian Cobbs of North Lawndale.
At 10:33 a.m., Cobbs was sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle in the 5400 block of West Kamerling when another male walked up, pulled out a handgun and fired shots into the vehicle, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was shot in the body and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. An autopsy showed he died of multiple gunshot wounds.
The shooter was described as a black man, thought to be between 20 and 30, wearing a dark hooded jacket, police said. Area North detectives were investigating.
By JEFFMAYES
Homicide Watch Chicago
The victims ranged in age from a 15-year-old boy shot death in Hermosa to a 75-year-old, found with fatal stab wounds after a fire in his home in Portage Park. It was another bloody week in Chicago, where at least 14 people died from violence, including a man shot to death by his own father.
The death toll for the year has reached at least 163 people killed in homicides through April 10. That is just one less that April 10 of 2016, when the city recorded its 164th homicide en route to a toal of nearly 800, the most in at least 20 years.
The week’s youngest victim was 15-year-old Diego Villada, who died Monday morning, two days after he was shot on the Northwest Side. The boy was in an alley about 12:35 p.m. April 1 in the 2100 block of North Tripp when he was confronted by two males, one of whom fired multiple shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Villada, who lives in the same neighborhood, suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 9:45 a.m. Monday, authorities said.
Two other teenage boys were also killed last week. A 16-year-old was killed and a 19-year-old man wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side. They were walking out of a store in the 1300 block of South Lawndale at 1:06 p.m. when they heard shots, according to police. Kahari Stovall, the 16-year-old, was shot in the lower back and abdomen; and the man was shot in the knee, police said. Both were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where Stovall was pronounced dead at 3:40 p.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the South Shore neighborhood. The man was listed in good condition, police said. Read more
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