Manuel Vega and another man were wounded in a shooting in the Brighton Park neighborhood shooting early Sunday. Vega died at a hospital two days later.
The men were in an argument with a third male at 4:57 a.m. in a parking lot in the 3300 block of West 47th Street when a fourth male walked up, pulled out a gun and opened fire, according to Chicago Police.
Vega, 23, of the 5100 block of South Kolin, was shot in the head and neck; and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:39 a.m. Tuesday, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The other man, 30, suffered gunshot wounds to the left shoulder and forearm; and was also taken to Mount Sinai, where his condition was stabilized, police said.
No suspects were in custody as of late Friday afternoon.
A Back of the Yards man was ordered held without bond Thursday for beating his girlfriend’s 21-month-old baby, Raiylana Vasquez, to death on Tuesday, according to prosecutors.
While baby-sitting Raiylana, 22-year-old Uriel Vega pulled the infant off the couch, threw her across the kitchen and into a bedroom, and then stomped on her stomach, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Jullian Brevard said in court. Vega is charged with first-degree murder.
Raiylana was having trouble breathing and her eyes rolled back after the attack in the the 4700 block of South Honore, Brevard said.
Vega called the girl’s mother to tell her the baby was not breathing, then ran downstairs to tell a neighbor, Brevard said. The neighbor saw the unresponsive child and Vega called 911. Read more
A man shot to death on Halloween in the North Side Uptown neighborhood has been identified as 24-year-old Jacolby Baker Cannon.
He was standing outside about 7 p.m. in the 4600 block of North Kenmore when an SUV pulled up to him, and someone inside shot him in the side, according to Chicago Police.
Cannon was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 8:43 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He lived in the 1000 block of North Lawler in the Austin neighborhood.
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By MATTHEWHENDRICKSON
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A Chicago man has been charged with reckless homicide for a hit-and-run crash that killed 62-year-old Aliser Maldonado earlier this month in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Demetrius Frayzier, 30, of the 5500 block of North Mango Avenue was charged with felony counts of reckless homicide with a motor vehicle, and leaving the scene of an accident involving injury or death, according to Chicago Police. He was taken into custody Tuesday.
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About 4 a.m. Nov. 3, Frayzier was driving south on Western Avenue when his vehicle went through a red light and struck a vehicle driven by Maldonado, who was going east on Logan Boulevard, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Maldonado, who lived in the 2800 block of North Milwaukee, was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 4:29 a.m., authorities said. An autopsy showed he died of multiple blunt force injuries suffered in the collision.
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After the collision, Frayzier left the scene and did not call in the crash, police said.
Two men were wounded and Javoun Burnes was killed in a drive-by shooting in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood Thursday afternoon.
At 4:15 p.m., the three men were standing on the sidewalk in the 1300 block of South Homan when someone in a light colored vehicle drove up and fired shots, according to Chicago Police.
Burnes, 22, was shot in the chest and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1900 block of West Ogden.
An 18-year-old man was taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition after he was shot in the right leg, police said. A 20-year-old man was shot in the buttocks and was taken to Mount Sinai, where his condition was stabilized.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A West Side woman gunned down Ireal C. Mitchell in a drive-by shooting because he had slapped her stepson on the basketball courts, Cook County prosecutors said Thursday.
Sirena Crosby’s stepson came home Aug. 8 and told her that Mitchell hit him after a verbal altercation near Polk Street and Springfield Avenue, prosecutors said in court.
So Crosby went to the basketball courts and confronted Mitchell, 22, Assistant State’s Attorney Bryan Grissman said.
But she wasn’t finished, according to authorities.
Crosby went back to her home in the 400 block of North Springfield and allegedly told a man to get a gun. The pair got in Crosby’s silver Chevrolet Malibu and drove around looking for Mitchell, Grissman said.
Crosby, 38, was behind the wheel and drove around the basketball court several times before she saw Mitchell in the 800 block of South Springfield, Grissman said. Read more
By JEFFMAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
At least 28 people died from violence last week, including 10 over a bloody weekend that pushed the city’s murder total closer to the 700 mark than it has been in many years.
The week’s total, more reminiscent of a summer weekend that early November, brought the 2016 homicide total to an unofficial 665, according to figures compiled by the Chicago Sun-Times Wire.
Two of those were a brother and sister killed in a domestic-related shooting that also left two other people critically wounded early Thursday in the South Chicago neighborhood; and a 3-year-old boy beaten to death by his father Monday in West Pullman, according to police.
Four people were shot by a “known suspect” in the 8000 block of South Shore Drive about 12:10 a.m., according to Chicago Police. The suspect got into an argument with one of the victims and it turned physical, police said. He left the home, but returned with a gun and shot all four victims.
A 20-year-old woman, Emoni House; and her 16-year-old brother, Elijah House, were pronounced dead at the scene, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Emoni House suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and Elijah House suffered a gunshot wound to the back. Both lived in the home where the shooting happened.
A 42-year-old woman was shot in the chest, and a 30-year-old woman was also shot, police said. They were taken in critical condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. No one was in custody.
The death of a 3-year-old boy Monday in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side was ruled a homicide, and days later, his father was charged with murder. Police were called at 8:23 a.m. to an apartment in the 12200 block of South Green, where they found the boy with “visible injuries,” according to police spokeswoman Officer Michelle Tannehill. Read more
A man has been charged with beating Raiylana Vasquez, his girlfriend’s 21-month-old baby, to death Tuesday morning in their Back of the Yards neighborhood home.
Uriel Vega, 22, faces one count of first-degree murder for the death of Raiylana, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was responsible for taking care of the child at the time of her death.
Officers responded at 11:22 a.m. to the 4700 block of South Honore and found Raiylana unresponsive, authorities said. She had suffered “obvious” signs of trauma.
The toddler was taken to Holy Cross Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 12:18 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. An autopsy Wednesday found she died of multiple injuries due to child abuse, and her death was ruled a homicide. Read more
A man has been sentenced to 30 months probation for a crash that seriously injured a woman and killed her unborn baby last year in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Ramon Marin, 24, of the 3000 block of North Natoma pleaded guilty to one count of reckless homicide before Judge Earl Hoffenberg during a Friday hearing at the Skokie courthouse, according to Cook County court records.
About 9:30 p.m. Aug. 12, 2015, Marin was driving a Honda Accord westbound in the 6000 block of West Fullerton when his vehicle swerved into oncoming traffic and struck a 21-year-old woman’s parked Mazda Protege, authorities said at the time.
The crash made the Mazda jump the curb and strike a tree, authorities said.
The woman and Marin were taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, authorities said. The woman was in serious condition, and her unborn child was pronounced dead at 12:10 a.m. the next day.
Marin’s condition was stabilized.
Judge Hoffenberg sentenced Natoma to 30 months probation Friday and ordered him to pay $674, according to court records.
A man convicted of beating 76-year-old Dora Nix-Corbin two years ago at a bus stop near her home in the Bronzeville neighborhood now faces a murder charge following her death.
Hezekiah Anthony, 34, began serving an eight-year sentence earlier this year for the July, 26, 2014, attack against Nix-Corbin near her home in the 500 block of East 47th Street, according to court records and Chicago Police.
Prosecutors said he approached Nix-Corbin just before 10 p.m. at a bus stop across the street from her home. There argued over $10 and he hit her with his hand and knocked her to the ground.
He then stomped her head several times until by-standers stepped in and he left, according to prosecutors. He was arrested later and identified by those witnesses. Read more
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