Burundi Martin charged with murder in Far South Side shooting death of Tony McIntosh

Michael Lansu — Fri, 22 May 2015 13:48:22 -0500

Burundi Martin / Photo from Chicago Police

BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times

A Far South Side man was ordered held without bond Friday for allegedly murdering a man in front of his mother and brother.

Burundi A. Martin stopped in front of the porch in the 10600 block of South Yates Avenue and asked Tony McIntosh’s family, “What’s Up?,” prosecutors said.

Martin then reached into his pocket, pulled out a gun and opened fire, prosecutors said.

McIntosh, his mother and brother dropped to the ground as soon as the bullets started flying on the night of Oct. 3, 2014, Assistant State’s Attorney Jennifer Cooper said.

The first bullet struck the glass screen door, shattering it.

Martin then took a step closer to the porch and fired three more times, Cooper said.

McIntosh, 20, was hit in the right arm and the back of his head, authorities said.

Martin ran from the scene, but was captured on surveillance cameras fleeing with the weapon, Cooper said.

McIntosh’s mother, a certified nursing assistant, performed CPR on her son before paramedics arrived, relatives said last year.

The day after the murder, she learned of Burundi’s nickname and later identified him in a photo from the surveillance cameras, Cooper said.

Martin, 25, of the 12200 block of South Ada Street, was arrested Thursday based on an investigative alert issued at the time of the murder, Cooper said.

“It happened right in front of his mother,” McIntosh’s aunt, Traci Armstrong, said in October. “It doesn’t seem real. Who does that?”

Martin, who has an 8th-grade education and works at a shipping and packaging company, has two prior convictions — one a weapons charge, the other a residential burglary case.

Burundi A. Martin | Homicide Watch Chicago

Burundi Martin charged with murder in Far South Side shooting death of Tony McIntosh