Douglas Bowman was found shot to death Tuesday night in a street in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
Officers responding to reports of shots fired at 9:16 p.m. in the 6700 block of South Wolcott found the 32-year-old Bowman lying unresponsive in the street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Bowman had suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the head, and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 10:05 p.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 800 block of East 46th Street.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A 27-year-old man shot to death Wednesday night in the South Side Park Manor neighborhood has been identified as Terrell Griffin.
About 7 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 7100 block of South Rhodes. They found the 27-year-old lying on the ground, according to Chicago Police.
Griffin had suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 7:55 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. His home address was not known Thursday afternoon.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
Devon Thomas | Chicago Police
A Far South Side man killed his 3-year-old son
Tayveon J. Thomas after punching and stomping on his body, then beat his pregnant fiancee when she tried to intervene, according to Cook County prosecutors.
The woman—who is the mother of Tayveon—ended up delivering her newborn prematurely hours after Tayveon died on Halloween, Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Holly Grosshans said in court.
Tayveon’s autopsy revealed signs of child abuse. The child had fresh cuts to his face and scalp, abdominal interior bleeding, and lung contusions, Grosshans said.
Devon Thomas first punched Tayveon several times in front of the boy’s mother on Sunday, Grosshans said. When the 23-year-old woman tried to stop Thomas, he allegedly choked her until she lost consciousness.
Tayveon vomited and had a stomach ache as a result, Grosshans said. His mother ended up giving him generic Pepto-Bismol.
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Authorities investigate after a fatal Austin shooting Thursday night. | Network Video Productions
was killed and another man was wounded by errant gunfire in an Austin neighborhood shooting late Thursday on the West Side.
About 10:45 p.m., officers responding to a call of a person shot in the 5000 block of West Concord found the 22-year-old Walker on a sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the head, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A 34-year-old man who was standing on a corner nearby was shot in the right leg. He was taken to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where his condition was stabilized, police said. He wasn’t thought to be an intended target.
Solomon lived several blocks away in the 1700 block of North Monitor.
Police tape surrounds the scene where one man was killed in a shooting Thursday night in Austin. | Network Video Productions
Francisco Guzman was shot to death Thursday evening in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood.
The 19-year-old was shot in the head at 6:20 p.m. in the 4800 block of South Laflin, Chicago Police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the victim as Guzman, who lived in the 7100 block of South Maplewood.
Originally from Los Angeles, Guzman worked as an automotive technician for Honda.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help the family with funeral expenses.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Five days after he was shot multiple times on a Homan Square neighborhood sidewalk on the West Side, Larry Matthews died at a hospital.
Officers responding to an unrelated call about 10:30 a.m. Oct. 28 in the 3400 block of West Lexington found the 25-year-old on a corner with multiple gunshot wounds, including at least one to the head, according to Chicago Police.
Matthews was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died at 8:22 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1400 block of South Sawyer.
No one was in custody for the shooting Friday morning.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Raymond D. Griffin and Tidarrius Smith were sitting on a porch on the block where they lived in West Englewood Tuesday morning when they were killed in a drive-by shooting.
The men sitting on a porch in the 1800 block of West 58th Street, where they both lived, about 10:45 a.m. when a dark Chevrolet drove by and a passenger fired shots, according to Chicago Police.
Griffin, 30, was shot in the neck, and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 6:30 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Smith, 31, was shot in the back and was also taken to Stroger, where he died at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday.
Area South detectives are handling the homicide investigation.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Lorenzo Jones | Cook County Sheriff’s Dept.
An Iowa man has been found not guilty of fatally shooting his brother,
Dennis Jones, at a family party on the West Side on Christmas Day in 2014.
Lorenzo Jones was found not guilty of murder Friday after a two-day jury trial before Judge Diane Gordon Cannon, according to Cook County court records.
The family had gathered for a Christmas party at a relative’s home in the 1900 block of South Trumbull about 6 p.m. Dec. 25, 2014, prosecutors alleged.
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Richard Porter was found shot to death on a sidewalk about two blocks from his home in the Marquette Park neighborhood Wednesday night on the Southwest Side
Officers responded about 9:40 p.m. to a call of a person shot and found the 27-year-old face-down on the sidewalk in the 7300 block of South Maplewood, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Porter, who lived in the 7100 block of South Rockwell, had suffered a gunshot wound to the head, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:52 p.m., authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Fifty-one-year-old Donald ‘Duck’ Dockery was killed in a drive-by shooting early Tuesday in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.
Dockery was standing outside at 2:37 a.m. in the 600 block of North Ridgeway when a vehicle drove by and someone inside fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Dockery was shot in the back and was pronounced dead at the scene 2:58 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 4700 block of West Maypole.
A YouCaring page has been set up by family members to help offset funeral expenses for DOckery, who was known to friends as “Duck.”
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
