Homicide Watch Chicago

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-TImes

Keonte Hill | Chicago Police

Keonte Hill was the one who pulled the trigger, killing Norwood near the BP station in the 7000 block of South Ashland, Cook County prosecutors said.

Hill, 18, was one three people who drove up in a Jeep Grand Cherokee on Oct. 13, Assistant State’s Attorney Jullian Brevard said.

Hill and one of his cohorts initially went into the station while a third man got gas, Brevard said.
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Moises Gonzalez | Provided photo

By LOU FOGLIA
Homicide Watch Chicago

Moises Antonio Gonzalez was busy preparing for the holiday season just days before he was killed, family members recall.

Each year before December’s arrival, he would set up a holiday train beneath the family’s Christmas tree in their Little Village apartment.

The train was given to him by his mother, Irma Jimenez, during the family’s first Christmas in Chicago in 1996. It was the year Gonzalez, his mother and two younger siblings fled from their father, who abused them, according to family members.

But when the train was destroyed in a basement flood a few years ago, the holiday tradition stopped. That was until last month—when Gonzalez’s sister, Yahtzeni Gonzalez, 23, surprised her older brother with a brand new train set.
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A man who was shot and killed during a robbery attempt Friday night in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood on the Southwest Side has been identified as 52-year-old Michael Newell.

At 8:30 p.m., officers responded to a call of shots fired and found Newell with a gunshot wound in a parked car in the 5100 block of South Long, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Officers learned he had been getting into his car when someone walked up and pulled a gun, police said. When Newell tried to drive away, he was shot in the head, and then crashed his car into another parked vehicle. Afterwards, the shooter ran away.

Newell, who lived in the 5200 block of South Kilbourn, was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:51 p.m., authorities said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Jordan Scott | Chicago Police

Jordan Scott, 26, faces one count of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder, according to the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.

About 3:30 a.m. Oct. 3, a 26-year-old man woke up on a couch in his apartment in the 100 block of North Central and heard arguing and yelling coming from a bedroom, according to prosecutors.

He heard Scott, whose nickname is “Peanut,” demand money, prosecutors said. Then he heard his roommate, the 33-year-old Rockett, tell Scott something to the effect of, “It didn’t have to be that way.”
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By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Zachary ‘Zack’ Stinson | Illinois Dept. of Corrections

Zachary “Zack” Stinson, 27, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Monday before Judge Thomas Byrne, according to Cook County court records.

About 1 a.m. Sept. 10, 2014, Gabriel Menses called Stinson and asked to meet up in the 5100 block of West Waveland Avenue, authorities said at the time.

Menses, 31, arrived in his vehicle and found Stinson in the backseat of a blue SUV. The two began arguing through the open vehicle windows, authorities said.
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By SAM CHARLES, JACOB WITTICH and JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times

First Deputy Police Supt. Kevin Navarro addresses reporters near a home where four people were found shot to death on the Far South Side. | Sam Charles / Sun-Times

Officers were called at 12:39 p.m. Saturday to a 1 1/2-story home in the 100 block of West 105th Street in the Fernwood neighborhood, according to Officer Jose Estrada, a Chicago Police Department spokesman. But it wasn’t clear just when the shooting happened.

Elijah Jackson, 36; his sister Shacora Jackson, 40; and Shacora Jackson’s daughter, Nateyah Yafah Hines, 19, were all found dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. All three lived on the same block as the shooting.

A fourth person, 45-year-old Scott Travis Thompson of the first block of Kempton Drive in Romeoville, was also found dead, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Shacora Jackson suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and the other victims each suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Three of the victims were found inside the home, and one of the women was found outside, police said.
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By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Meiko Buchanan | Illinois Dept. of Corrections

Meiko Buchanan, 25, pleaded guilty Nov. 2 to two counts of murder before Judge Maura Slattery Boyle, according to Cook County court records.

Anderson, 17, had just left the studio in the 7000 block of South Stony Island Avenue and was walking through an alley when he was confronted and shot Sept. 26, 2013, authorities said at the time.
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A teenage boy who was shot to death Friday morning in the West Side Austin neighborhood has been identified as Corey Martin.

The 17-year-old was walking on the street in the 600 block of North Long at 8:41 a.m. when someone approached, showed a gun and started shooting, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Martin was shot multiple times and ran behind a nearby property, where he collapsed, authorities said.

Martin, who lived a block north in the 700 block of North Long, was found there and pronounced dead at 9:55 a.m., authorities said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By SAM CHARLES and JACOB WITTICH
Chicago Sun-Times

Police investigate the scene in Brighton Park where two people were killed and two others wounded in a shooting Friday afternoon. | Sam Charles/Sun-Times

Zizumbo, 47; an 18-year-old man and two 17-year-old boys, including Torres, were walking down the 4300 block of South Rockwell at 3:29 p.m., according to Chicago Police. Two people got out of a silver vehicle parked at the mouth of an alley and opened fired at the group.

Zizumbo suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:40 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 4200 block of South Maplewood.

Torres, of the 4200 block of South Fairfield, was shot multiple times and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:06 p.m., authorities said.
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Joel Planas died about 5 hours after being shot during a fight early Sunday in the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

Planas, 34, was involved in a fight with another male at 12:52 a.m. on a sidewalk in the 3100 block of West Irving Park Road, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The other man at some point pulled out a gun and fired shots, striking him in the abdomen, according to police.

Planas was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 5:59 a.m., police said. He lived in the 2100 block of North Stave Street.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire