Jonas L. Haynes, called “one of the best stepper on the East Side,” was found stabbed to death early Monday inside his home in the South Chicago neighborhood.
Officers arrived about 12:35 a.m. to check on the well-being of the 55-year-old and found him inside the home in the 8500 block of South Colfax, according to Chicago Police.
Haynes had been stabbed in the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:52 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
On Facebook, friends called him “a legend” and one of the best dancers on the city’s Southeast Side.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Jesse C. Montes de Oca was fatally shot Sunday night on the block where he lived in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Police investigate a homicide in the 3500 block of West 38th Place Sunday night. | NVP News
The 31-year-old was standing in a backyard about 11 p.m. in the 3500 block of West 38th Place, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
A silver SUV drove past and someone inside fired shots.
Montes de Oca suffered a gunshot wound to the back and was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:30 p.m., authorities said. He lived on the same block where he was shot.
Area Central detectives were conducting a homicide investigation. No one was in custody as of Monday afternoon.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Jeffery Demetrius Brown died less than an hour after he was shot Friday night in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Officers responded about 7:45 p.m. to a call of shots fired in the 400 block of West 129th Place and found the 34-year-old Brown with gunshot wounds to the head and thigh, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 8:27 p.m., authorities said.
Brown, known as “King Lou,” lived on the same block where he was shot, according to authorities.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By JON SEIDEL
Chicago Sun-Times
Vandetta Redwood in the lobby of the Dirksen Federal Building after a jury found her not guilty for her alleged role in the death of Endia Martin. | Jon Seidel/Sun-Times
Nearly three years after 14-year-old
Endia Martin became a symbol of Chicago’s gun violence, a woman at the center of the street brawl that led to the teen’s death walked out of a courtroom a free woman.
Again.
A federal jury handed a rare loss to federal prosecutors Thursday, acquitting 35-year-old Vandetta Redwood on charges that she gave a .38 special caliber revolver to Martin’s alleged killer, Redwood’s cousin, who was 14 at the time. The feds said Redwood gave her cousin instructions to “shoot that bitch.”
Jurors were not convinced. Redwood showed little reaction to the verdict when it was handed down in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve. But later, in the courthouse lobby, she broke down in tears.
“I want to tell the Martin family that I’m sorry for their loss,” Redwood said.
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By ASHLEE REZIN
Chicago Sun-Times
A third man has been charged with the fatal beating of 17-year-old Ezequiel Velazquez on New Year’s Day 2013 in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Daniel Malave | Chicago Police
, 29, faces one count of first-degree murder in connection with the death of Velazquez, who Chicago Police called a rival gang member.
He was arrested about 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the 4500 block of South Washtenaw, police said. On Saturday, Malave, who lives in the 4200 block of South Rockwell, was ordered held at Cook County Jail without bond.
About 6 a.m. Jan. 1, 2013, Velasquez and a 21-year-old woman were driving on 40th Street when they encountered a dark Chevrolet Suburban blocking the street near Pulaski Road, authorities said at the time. A group of several suspects got out of the SUV and approached the pair in their Chrysler Sebring to ask if they had any gasoline.
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Kentrell Thompson was shot to death early Saturday while sitting in a vehicle at a gas station in the Goose Island neighborhood on the Near West Side.
Police investigate a fatal shooting early Saturday in Goose Island. | NVP News
About 1:40 a.m., the 25-year-old Thompson was sitting in his vehicle at a station in the 1200 block of North Halsted, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He suffered a gunshot wound to the head when someone fired several shots at the vehicle, according to police.
Thompson was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the medical examiner’s office.
The father of two was a Humboldt Park resident known to friends as “NuNu.”
A friend said in a Facebook post: “Every now and again people come into your life and leave an unforgettable impression. I loved this kid! A rare soul full of good energy.”
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
Ryne San Hamel | Chicago Police
A Park Ridge man who crashed into cyclist
Robert Geroge Cann and killed him after drinking at a Cubs game was sentenced Thursday to 10 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to aggravated
DUI and reckless homicide.
Cook County Judge William J. Hooks also sentenced Ryne San Hamel to four years probation. San Hamel also was ordered to pay Cann’s family the $25,000 it cost for the Groupon employee’s funeral services here and in New Hampshire, and for expenses to fly to Chicago for court.
As in past hearings in the case that riled the local cycling community, Hooks’ courtroom was packed Thursday with both San Hamel’s family and Cann’s relatives, who wore buttons with the picture of the avid cyclist.
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Garcel S. Woods of west suburban Westchester, found dead Thursday afternoon in an alley in the South Side Englewood neighborhood, had been shot to death, an autopsy showed.
Officers were called about 12:45 p.m. to a report of a person down in an alley in the 6300 block of South Parnell, Chicago Police said.
Woods, 30, was found dead in the alley, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Police initially said she had suffered puncture wounds to his chest and hand; and it appeared the body had “been there for a considerable amount of time.”
An autopsy Friday found he died from multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Police are conducting a homicide investigation.
Gregory Anthony Sims Jr. / Facebook
By LOU FOGLIA
Homicide Watch Chicago
Gregory Anthony Sims Jr. was about to realize one of his goals — having his own apartment.
The 25-year-old’s scheduled move-in date was Friday, Sept. 16, but the move never happened, family members said.
Instead—on that same Friday—family and friends gathered for a funeral after Sims was shot multiple times and killed on Sept. 8.
Sims was arguing with a man in the 4500 block of North Kenmore when that man pulled out a gun and shot him five times in the chest and twice in the right leg, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
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Seventeen-year-old Husain Parr died several hours after being shot Thursday evening in a South Side Englewood neighborhood drive-by.
About 7 p.m., Parr was walking in the 7000 block of South Princeton when someone in a dark-colored SUV opened fire, hitting him in the chest and both legs, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
The boy was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died about six hours later at 12:45 a.m. Friday, the medical examiner’s office said. He lived in the South Side Grand Boulevard neighborhood.
No one was in custody for the shooting as of Friday morning.
