Homicide Watch Chicago

By SAM CHARLES
Chicago Sun-Times

Kamel Harris | Chicago Police

Kamel Harris, 41, faces one count each of first-degree murder, concealment of a homicidal death, and dismembering a human body, Chicago Police announced Tuesday. He is due in bond court Wednesday.

Harris killed the lactose-intolerant boy after he drank some milk and wouldn’t stop crying, Chicago Police Cmdr. Kevin Duffin said at a press conference on the banks of the lagoon where Kyrian’s decapitated body was found last September.

“The baby apparently ingested some milk and the baby was lactose intolerant, and kept crying all afternoon,” Duffin said. “[Harris] kind of just snapped.”

After taking Harris’ vehicle into custody and obtaining a search warrant, Kyrian’s blood was found inside, Duffin said, though investigators believe the child was killed in Rockford.
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By DANIEL BROWN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A man was shot to death outside a gas station early Sunday in South Austin. | Daniel Brown/Sun-Times

Officers responding to a call of a person shot in the 4800 block of West Madison at 1:59 a.m. found Parker suffering multiple gunshot wounds to the abdomen and chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:37 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 6300 block of South King Drive.

The parking lot of the Mobil station at 4804 W. Madison St. was cordoned off with red and yellow tape.

One witness, who would not give his name, said he was standing across the street on the south side of Madison when he heard people arguing in the parking lot.

He said a group of males started chasing a man before he heard about four to five shots.
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Harry “Orlando” Cannon Jr. was shot Monday afternoon while parking his vehicle in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood, and died about four hours later.

The 22-year-old was parking his vehicle in the 900 block of North Kedvale at 1:43 p.m. when another vehicle pulled alongside and a passenger fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Cannon was hit, but his vehicle kept moving until it struck another parked vehicle, police said. The vehicle with the shooter inside took off north on Kedvale.

Cannon, who lived in the 3600 block of West Lexington, was shot in the head and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:36 p.m., authorities said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A man shot to death in the South Shore neighborhood Sunday night has been identified as Grayson Langdon, son of the Far South Side pastor who founded the Thou Shalt Not Murder campaign.

About 7:10 p.m., officers responded to a call of shots fired in the 7200 block of South Phillips Avenue and found the 25-year-old unresponsive on the ground, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Langdon had suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:30 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 7600 block of South Cregier.

The victim’s father is the Rev. Dennis C. Landgon of Morgan Park United Methodist Church. He was one of the founders of the Thou Shalt Not Murder campaign, which kicked off with a relatively successful campaign calling for no murders on Easter last March.

The Reverend Dennis Langdon of Morgan Park United Methodist Church, one of the founders of the Thous Shalt Not Murder campaign. | Photo Provided

At the time, Langdon told Homicide Watch Chicago: “We’re looking to the people of Chicago to take responsibility for themselves and the people living in their communities, and say it’s unacceptable for this type of behavior to keep happening. Even if it’s only for a day, it will prove we have the ability to say no to violence in our city.”

—Homicide Watch Chicago and Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A man shot to death early Saturday in the West Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side has been identified as 31-year-old Louis Antonio Torres of south suburban Blue Island.

Torres was driving in the 6800 block of South Springfield just before 2 a.m. Saturday when someone outside the vehicle opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Torres was driven to Holy Cross Hospital and transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:14 a.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 12200 block of Greenwood Avenue in Blue Island.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

On Oct. 16, 63-year-old Joe Lacasto was stabbed during a robbery a couple of blocks away from his home in the Canaryville neighborhood on the South Side. On Monday night, he died from those injuries.

Lacasto was stabbed during a robbery in the 600 block of West 43rd Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He later walked into Stroger Hospital with multiple stab wounds. Lacasto died there at 5:35 p.m. Monday, according to the medical examiner’s office.

He lived less than two blocks from the robbery scene in the 4300 block of South Emerald.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Taurus A. Williams was fatally shot while driving Monday morning in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.

The 41-year-old Williams was shot in the head, side and hip about 8 a.m. while in his vehicle in the 9700 block of South Lafayette, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was able to drive to the 10000 block of South Wentworth, but then crashed into two other vehicles, according to police.

Williams, known to friends as PeeWee, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 8:46 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 300 block of West 100th Street.

His son, Taurus Moe Williams, was fatally shot on June 14. 2014, in Morgan Park.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

A man shot to death early Saturday on the block where he lived in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side has been identified as Lorenzo Dixon, known to friends as “P-Dog.”

Officers responding to reports of shots fired at 3:21 a.m. found the 31-year-old lying in an alley in the 100 block of South California, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Dixon, who lived on the block where he was fouud had suffered gunshot wounds to the head, left arm and left leg, authorities said.

He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:53 a.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By ZOE FISHER
Homicide Watch Chicago

Isaiah Carter was shot to death in November 2011 and his mother is perplexed by the lack of progress in solving the case. | photo provided

“If he wanted me to do something, he’d play music,” Angel Brown said.

While in the kitchen, she also taught him to cook a few things. Making chicken was his favorite. He would, “BBQ, fry it, boil it,” his mother said. He planned to enroll in culinary school after graduating from Manley Career Academy on the West Side in June.

Carter wanted to follow in the footsteps of his older brother, Rico Brown, who was in culinary school at the time.

“Almost everything turned out bad,” his brother said about Isaiah’s cooking experiments. “Milk and butter are not the cure to everything like we thought.”

Rico Brown dropped out of culinary school after his brother died, but now feels he has enough strength to return.

Carter was killed on Nov. 24, 2011, a day before his 19th birthday. His mother called him a “thanksgiving baby”—the youngest of her four children. Born at 28 weeks, Angel Brown gave him special attention.
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By MITCHELL ARMENTROUT
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Darryl Benton Harris | Chicago Police

Darryl Benton Harris faces two counts of first-degree murder, one count of intentional homicide of an unborn child, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, and two counts of aggravated battery with a firearm for the Nov. 3 domestic attack at the victims’ home in the 8000 block of South Shore Drive, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Shortly after midnight, Harris got into an argument with the teen, then left the home before returning with a gun to shoot the boy in the back, authorities allege.
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