After being shot Friday evening in the Archer Heights neighborhood on the Southwest Side, 21-year-old Carlos Rosas was able to get to a hospital on his own. But he died there less than 30 minutes later.
Officers responded to a call of shots fired at 6:48 p.m. in the 4900 block of South Kostner. They learned that Rosas had already taken himself to Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
He had been shot in his chest and neck, and was pronounced dead at the hospital at 7:12 p.m., authorities said. He lived less than two blocks from the scene of the shooting.
Area Central detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.
Six people were shot, one fatally, near the intersection of Lake and Central in Austin Friday afternoon. | Sam Charles/Sun-Times
Byron McKinney Jr. was killed and five other people were wounded in a shooting Friday afternoon near a store in the Austin neighborhood that the local alderman says has been known to harbor “illicit activity.”
At 1:38 p.m., a gray SUV pulled up and opened fire on a group in the 300 block of North Central Avenue, according to Chicago Police.
McKinney, 24, was hit multiple times in the torso and arm, and was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he died at 2:13 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the neighborhood.
Also wounded were a 17-year-old boy shot in the left leg; a 20-year-old man shot in the right foot; and a 46-year-old man shot in the buttocks, police said. Two other men, ages 24 and 29, suffered gunshot wounds to the thigh. They were all listed in good condition at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park.
The shooting at the busy intersection attracted dozens of onlookers, among them Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th). Read more
Emergency crews responding to a fire in the basement of a home Friday morning in the Norwood Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side found a badly wounded Loren Flensborg. An autopsy later showed the 75-year-old had been stabbed to death.
Chicago Fire Department crews were called just before 6 a.m. to the home in the 5000 block of North Oak Park, according to the department.
Flensborg was found unconscious in the living room of his home, and was taken to Presence Resurrection Medical Center, where he died at 6:35 a.m., fire officials and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
An autopsy Saturday found he died of multiple sharp force injuries and his death was ruled a homicide, the medical examiner’s office said.
The fire appeared to have started in the basement of the home, fire officials said. It was put out in about 20 minutes. The Chicago Police Bomb and Arson Unit was called to the scene and the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Police said Sunday the incident was reclassified as a murder and was also being investigated by Area North detectives.
Family members said Flenborg was retired carpenter, and had spent the last several years rehabbing and renting out buildings on the North Side.
When Keyon Boyd was very young, his aunt nicknamed him “Smiley” because he was always grinning. “He was the family’s comedian,” his mother Tywone Lee said. “He was a funny, outgoing person.”
But he had a serious side as well, and was planning to use his education, faith and athletic talent to make a better life for himself and his family.
“He was a young man that I could depend on if I needed anything to be done at the church,” the Rev. James Brooks, senior pastor at Harmony Community Church where the family worshipped, said. He was “just a selfless young man that really knew the value of serving others.”
Boyd, whose other nickname was “Kaydoe,” graduated from Charles Houston High School on the South Side and was planning to study at Heartland Community College. Read more
A man who was shot to death Monday morning in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side has been identified as 47-year-old George Dehart.
At 11:57 a.m. Monday, Dehart was in the 1300 block of South Karlov when two male suspects walked up and fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He suffered two gunshot wounds to the chest and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. Dehart, who lived about a mile away in the same neighborhood, was pronounced dead at 12:34 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help the family with funeral expenses for the Collins High School alum.
Arsennial Allen was shot to death Thursday afternoon in front of a store in the South Chicago neighborhood.
The 28-year-old Allen was standing in front of the store at 3:22 p.m. in the 2300 block of East 83rd Street. A gunman walked up and shot him in the head, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The shooter took off in a blue vehicle, police said.
Allen, a South Shore resident, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 5:05 p.m., authorities said.
No one was in custody for the killing as of Friday morning.
By JEFFMAYES
Homicide Watch Chicago
A week that started out with about four full days without a homicide suddenly exploded into a bloodbath when four shootings left eight people dead in a matter of 24 hours in the South Shore neighborhood, and by the time it ended, 18 lives were lost to violence in Chicago last week.
After nearly four days of from early Sunday morning until Wednesday night, a man shot to death in the South Shore neighborhood. Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said 37-year-old Jerry Jacobs was walking on the sidewalk at 11:13 p.m. March 29 in the 7900 block of South Phillips when four males got out of a dark-colored vehicle and shot at him.
Jacobs, who lived in the same neighborhood, suffered a gunshot wound to the right side of his body and took himself to South Shore Hospital. He was later transferred to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:40 a.m. Thursday, March 31.
And that was just the start, according to Cook County prosecutors, who claim that Jacobs’ son, 19-year-old Maurice Harris, fatally shot four people at the Nadia Fish and Chicken restaurant at 75th and Coles in retaliation for his father’s death. Charged on Wednesday with four counts of murder, Harris was ordered held without bond. Read more
By SAMCHARLES, ANDYGRIMM and MITCHELLARMENTROUT
Chicago Sun-Times
Maurice Harris | Chicago Police
Maurice Harris’ father — 37-year-old Jerry Jacobs, who had nearly four dozen arrests, including two for murder — was gunned down on a sidewalk in the South Shore neighborhood around 11:15 p.m. March 29.
The next day, his son appears to have been out for revenge, police say.
Around 3:30 p.m. March 30, the 19-year-old Harris fatally shot four men at a restaurant within a mile of where his father’s blood was spilled, according to police.
Police said Wednesday the shootings are the product of an ongoing gang war and that “a reasonable person would believe” they are connected. They also said that a double homicide in South Shore later on March 30 might be related to the restaurant killings.
If so, it would be a staggering series of events: 24 hours, three shootings, seven dead, one gang war. Read more
Sixteen-year-old Kahari Stovall 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 Chicago Police.
The boy 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 Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the South Shore neighborhood.
The man was listed in good condition, police said.
By SAMCHARLES and MITCHELLARMENTROUT
Chicago Sun-Times
Jerry Jacobs | Facebook
A man shot to death last week in the South Shore neighborhood has been identified as 37-year-old Jerry Jacobs, and authorities believe his death may have been the catalyst for a quadruple homicide the following day.
Jacobs was walking on the sidewalk at 11:13 p.m. March 29 in the 7900 block of South Phillips when four males got out of a dark-colored vehicle and shot at him, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Jacobs, who lived in the same neighborhood, suffered a gunshot wound to the right side of his body and took himself to South Shore Hospital, authorities said. He was later transferred to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:40 a.m. Thursday, March 31.
Jacobs’ son, 19-year-old Maurice Harris, was charged Tuesday with fatally shooting four people at Nadia Fish and Chicken at 75th and Coles on the day after his father was killed, police announced Wednesday. He was ordered held without bond. Read more
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