Homicide Watch Chicago

By STEFANO ESPOSITO, MITCHELL ARMENTROUT and SAM CHARLES
Chicago Sun-Times

Chad Robertson had already bolted—and was at least 75 feet away—when Amtrak police officer

unholstered his gun, crouched down and fired, sending Robertson crashing face-first to the ground, a Cook County judge was told Friday.

Not one of four witnesses saw Robertson with a weapon on the night of Feb. 8 at Union Station; nor did they see him “gesture” as if he had one, prosecutors said as Cook County Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil ordered Tankson, a father of three, held on a $250,000 bond on a charge of first-degree murder.

Assistant State’s Attorney Ahmed Kosoko had asked Ciesil to hold Tankson without bond.

Minutes later outside court, Robertson’s family—including his father and a sister—said it wasn’t right that a man accused of shooting a fleeing man in the back should have such an easy route out of jail while he awaits trial.
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Eddie Thomas was shot to death Saturday afternoon while sitting in a vehicle just blocks away from his home in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.

Thomas, 33, was sitting in a vehicle at 3:33 p.m. in the 4900 block of West Van Buren when someone in a silver sedan pulled up and opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Thomas suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his body and was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he died at 5:11 p.m., authorities said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Travis Joseph died early Saturday, about 10 hours after he was shot in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.

Joseph, 31, was on a porch at 6:23 p.m. Friday in the 1400 block of West 71st Street when a male suspect walked up, pulled out a weapon and opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Joseph was shot in the chest and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 4:11 a.m. Saturday, authorities said. He lived in the same neighborhood as the shooting.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By SARA FREUND
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

John Gonzalez was killed and two other men were wounded in a shooting early Saturday in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, and police say witnesses are not cooperating with investigation.

About 4:30 a.m., officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 4500 block of South Wood, Chicago Police said.

Officers found Gonzalez, 36, who lived in the same block, with a gunshot wound to his head, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

He was being put into a vehicle by several friends, police said. He was transported to the University of Illinois Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:43 a.m.

A 32-year-old man and a 26-year-old man who were also wounded in the shooting took themselves to Stroger Hospital, police said. The older man was shot in both legs and the younger man in his right hand. They were both in good condition.

Witnesses were being uncooperative with investigators and no one was in custody, police said.

Willie Cook was killed and another man wounded in a shooting early Saturday at a nightclub in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side, according to Chicago Police.

Just before 3 a.m., officers responding to a call of shots fired in the 5000 block of South Ashland found the 23-year-old Cook in the Palestine club with a gunshot wound to his back, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The medical examiner’s office spelled his name Cooks.

Cook was a father of one son who lived in the Roseland neighborhood. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 3 a.m.

Officers also found a 28-year-old man who had run away from the shooting with a gunshot wound to the right leg. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized, police said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A 19-year-old man is facing a murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting of Trasean Stokes last October in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

Delames Sullivan faces one felony count of first-degree murder in connection with the Oct. 14, 2016, shooting, according to Chicago Police.

Stokes, 26, was outside at 8:55 p.m. in the 6000 block of North Talman when a group of people walked up and someone fired shots, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said at the time.

He was shot in the chest and was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead at 9:35 p.m.

An autopsy found Stokes, who lived nearby in the same neighborhood, died of multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide.

Sullivan was arrested in the Cook County Jail, where he had been held since October 24 on charges of unlawful use of a weapon and violating probation for an unrelated robbery case, according to Cook County sheriff’s office spokeswoman Sophia Ansari.

Sullivan, of the 3700 block of West Agatite, had been held on a $500,000 bond, but bond was denied on the new charge, court records show. He is due back in court on Wednesday.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Twenty-year-old Iveill Hudson was killed and a 60-year-old woman was wounded in a shooting Thursday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood.

Hudson was standing on the corner about 1:45 p.m. in the 5700 block of West Chicago and talking on a cellphone when someone walked up and fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Hudson, who lived about a block from where he was killed, was shot in the abdomen and leg, and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 5:04 p.m., authorities said.

The woman was shot in the leg and was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, but was later transferred to Stroger, police said. Her condition had stabilized.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By JORDAN OWEN and MATTHEW HENDRICKSON
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Brothers Filogonio Rivera-Camacho and Emmanuel Camacho, and Julian Miller were killed, and two other men were critically wounded Wednesday afternoon in what police called a “drug-related” shooting in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

The shooting happened at 2:58 p.m. in the 3900 block of South Albany, according to Chicago Police. The five men were inside a home when a male suspect walked in and began shooting.

Rivera-Camacho, 20; and Camacho, 18, were both shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. They lived in the same block as the shooting, but it was unclear whether they were related.
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Jorge Navarro Jr. was shot to death early Wednesday while driving on Lake Shore Drive in the North Side Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Navarro, 25, was driving a silver Lexus about 3:45 a.m. in the southbound lanes of the 2300 block of North Lake Shore Drive, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Another vehicle pulled alongside the Lexus near Fullerton, and someone inside shot him in the chest, police said.

The Lexus then crashed into the center median. Two other people, a male and female who were passengers in the car, were not injured, police said.

Navarro was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 4:37 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the McKinley Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds, and his death was ruled a homicide.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By ASHLEE REZIN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

While walking to a bus stop with his girlfriend Thursday morning, Maximiliano “Max” Arroyo was gunned down in the Avondale neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

“I don’t believe this,” said Antonio Arroyo, 47, who identified the victim as his 24-year-old nephew.

Officers responding to reports of a person shot at 5:41 a.m. found him lying in the street in the 4000 block of West Melrose, according to Chicago Police. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A police source said the victim was walking to the bus stop with his girlfriend when a vehicle pulled up and someone inside asked if they had gang affiliations, then opened fire. The girlfriend was not injured.
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