19-year-old Carl Jones dies one day after being shot multiple times near his home in Marquette Park

Carl A. Jones, a 19-year-old college student, died one day after he was shot repeatedly Thursday afternoon in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

Jones was standing outside at 2:09 p.m. in the 6300 block of South Kedzie when someone walked up, fired several shots, then ran away, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Jones was shot in the head, chest, and shoulder, and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, authorities said.

Jones, who lived on the same block where he was shot, died at Christ at 6:15 p.m. Friday, authorities said.

He was a student at the Kennedy-King College Transfer Station.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

45-year-old Darren Smith found shot to death inside his home in Chatham

Darren Smith was shot to death Sunday night in the his home in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.

About 11:45 p.m., officers arrived in the 8100 block of South Ellis and found the 45-year-old Smith unresponsive inside a home, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He had suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.

Police did not have additional information about the shooting, but Area South detective are conducting a homicide investigation.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Man charged with fatally stabbing wife’s godbrother, Lamar Watson, during argument in North Lawndale home

By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times

Byron Johnson | Cook County Sheriff's Dept.

Byron Johnson | Cook County Sheriff’s Dept.


A 45-year-old man has been charged with stabbing his wife’s godbrother, Lamar Watson, during an argument with his wife about six weeks ago in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.
Byron Johnson faces one count of first-degree murder, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.

At 8:47 a.m. Oct. 25, Johnson was arguing with his wife inside their home in the 1400 block of South Avers when his wife asked him to leave, prosecutors said. She began packing up his belongings and asked her two sons to keep him out of the bedroom.

Johnson became angry that his wife’s godbrother, the 39-year-old Watson, was helping her, so he hit Watson with a crutch, prosecutors said.

Watson suggested they go outside, where they got into a fist fight, which continued back inside the home, prosecutors said.
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Promising boxer Ed ‘Bad Boy’ Brown fatally wounded, his cousin injured, in shooting near his Garfield Park home

By JON SEIDEL, MATTHEW HENDRICKSON and STEFANO ESPOSITO
Chicago Sun-Times

Ed “Bad Boy” Brown, 25, is the latest victim of Chicago’s violence. The Garfield Park native who wore a Chicago flag uniform whenever he left town to fight was gunned down early Saturday within half a mile of his home, according to police and his co-manager. | Provided photo

Ed “Bad Boy” Brown, 25, is the latest victim of Chicago’s violence. The Garfield Park native who wore a Chicago flag uniform whenever he left town to fight was gunned down early Saturday within half a mile of his home. | Provided photo


The man who helped mold him into a 20-0 professional boxer said “he was going to be a world champion,” but instead, 25-year-old Ed “Bad Boy” Brown is one of the latest victims of Chicago’s violence.

The child of Garfield Park, who wore a Chicago flag uniform whenever he left town to fight, was shot early Saturday within half a mile of his home, according to Chicago Police and his co-manager, Mike Cericola.

Brown was sitting in a parked vehicle with his a 19-year-old woman about 1:10 a.m. in the 3200 block of West Warren Boulevard when a silver vehicle pulled up and someone inside shot at them, police said. Brown was struck in the head, and the woman, his cousin, was hit in the left leg. Both were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital.
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Masked gunman attacks Curtis Nowells while he walks in a park in the East Hyde Park neighborhood

A man who was fatally shot by a masked gunman Friday afternoon while walking in a park in the East Hyde Park neighborhood has been identified as 33-year-old Curtis Nowells.

At 2:50 p.m., the 33-year-old Nowells was walking in Cornell Park in the 5400 block of South Cornell. That’s when someone wearing a mask walked up from behind and opened fire before running to a nearby car and driving away, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Nowells was found unresponsive by officers and pronounced at the scene at 3:04 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the 1900 block of East 73rd Place in South Shore.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Bartiomiej Barczyk stabbed to death duing argument with another man in Jefferson Park

Bartiomiej R. Barczyk was stabbed to death Saturday night during an argument with a man in a Jefferson Park building on the Northwest Side.

The 40-year-old Barczyk was stabbed in the chest inside a building in the 5500 block of West Higgins by another man during an argument at 11:37 p.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Barczyk, of the 1600 block of West Greenleaf, was taken to Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, where he was pronounced dead at 12:44 a.m. Sunday, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Police said the stabbing was domestic-related and a suspect was taken into custody. However, police said Monday afternoon that person had been released without being charged with a crime.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

22-year-old Deangelo Martin fatally shot while standing with group of people in Englewood

Deangelo Martin was fatally shot early Sunday in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.

Shortly before 2 a.m., the 22-year-old was standing with a group of people in the 7300 block of South Yale. Gunfire erupted and Martin was shot multiple times in the neck, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A friend took him to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 2:52 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 8100 block of South Coles.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Man found fatally shot in East Garfield Park identified as 19-year-old Marqual Donell Bailey

A man who was shot to death early Thursday in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side has been identified 19-year-old Marqual Donell Bailey.

Officers responding to reports of shots fired at 1:16 a.m. found Bailey with gunshot wounds to the head and chest in the 300 block of South Whipple, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Bailey was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:32 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 3000 block of West Washington, just a few blocks from where he was shot.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Man shot to death before crashing vehicle in Burnside identified as Mandle Lee Johnson III of Perry, Georgia

A Georgia man who died after being shot while driving Wednesday morning in the South Side Burnside neighborhood has been identified as Mandle Lee Johnson III.

Johnson, 25, was driving about 6:20 a.m. and crashed his vehicle into a bus shelter in the 9300 block of South Cottage Grove, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He had been shot three times in the lower abdomen and once in the lower back, police said. He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 7:15 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1000 block of Kingston Road in Perry, Georgia.

Johnson did not suffer any injuries from the crash and there were no passengers in the vehicle, police said. An autopsy Thursday found he died of multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide.

A GoFundMe page has been established to help the family with funeral expenses.

Johnson was known for “his contagious joy, gigantic smile, never-ending love, and compassion for those around him,” the founder of the page wrote.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Reginald Smith found with fatal gunshot wounds in parking lot in Chatham

A man who was fatally shot Thursday evening in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side has been identified as 48-year-old Reginald G. Smith.

Smith was found unresponsive at 7:33 p.m. in a parking lot in the 7800 block of South Cottage Grove, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He had suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 8:28 p.m., according to authorities.

Smith lived in the 6600 block of South Woodlawn.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire