WEEK IN REVIEW: 12 killed in Chicago violence, including two who had gone to funeral of another shooting victim

Jeff Mayes — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 16:00:39 -0500

By JEFF MAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Chicago Sun-Times file photo

At least 12 people were killed in violence last week in Chicago and the death toll included a 17-year-old, two 18-year-olds, and two men who hours earlier had been to the funeral of another gunshot victim.

After spending the day at the funeral of a friend who was shot to death last week, Antwon Brooks and Javil Nunn were themselves shot to death early Sunday on a porch in the Brainerd neighborhood.

Police were responded at 1:13 a.m. to a call of shots fired in the 9000 block of South Marshfield and found the men unresponsive, according to Chicago Police.

Brooks, 42; and Nunn, 33, were both pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. AUtopsies showed both men died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Both victims had attended the funeral of Anreco D. Nichols, who was shot to death just a week earlier in Chatham.

A few hours later, the body of 32-year-old Dwayne T. Triplett was found slumped over the wheel of his car in Englewood. About 8:35 a.m., an officer on patrol found Triplett dead of a gunshot wound near his home in the 1100 block of West 72nd Street, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. He had been shot in the head and chest.

A 17-year-old boy was killed and a 19-year-old man wounded in a shooting late Saturday in Back of the Yards. They were standing in the street about 10:20 p.m. in the 5200 block of South Sangamon when a car pulled up and someone inside fired shots, according to police.

The boy, identified as Christopher Fields, was shot in the back and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died. Fields, a sophomore at Urban Prep Academy, was not the intended target of the shoot, according to a statement from the school CEO.

The older teen was taken to the same hospital with an arm wound. His condition stabilized, police said.

A 18-year-old south suburban man died hours after being shot in the West Chatham neighborhood early Saturday. Travell Montgomery was on a porch in the 8800 block of South Princeton at 1:30 a.m. when three gunmen walked up and opened fire, shooting him in the head, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Montgomery was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died just before 8 p.m.

A 27-year-old man was shot to death in the South Chicago neighborhood Friday night. Jeremy H. Ray was outside in the 8900 block of South Brandon about 9:35 p.m. when two gunmen got out of a car, walked up and opened fire, striking him repeatedly, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. The shooters then drove off. Ray was taken to Advocate Trinity Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:27 p.m., authorities said.

Another Englewood shooting left one man dead and another wounded Friday night. Terry Bates Jr., 26, and a 27-year-old man were outside in the 200 block of West Garfield about 8:45 p.m. Two gunmen walked up to them and opened fire before running away, according to authorities.

The men were each shot multiple times and were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where Bates was pronounced dead. The condition of the 27-year-old, who suffered chest and leg wounds, was stabilized, police said.

A 52-year-old man was fatally shot Thursday evening in Ashburn. Paul Webster was sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle about 5:26 p.m. in the 2800 block of West 84th Place when a dark-colored vehicle pulled up and someone inside fired shots, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

Webster, whose home address wasn’t known, was shot in the chest and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead.

An 18-year-old man was fatally shot in West Englewood on Wednesday night. Lewis Johnson was shot several times in the abdomen about 8:10 p.m. in the 7200 block of South Marshfield, police and the medical examiner’s office said. Johnson, who lived in the same block, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead.

Lanorris Webster was shot to death Wednesday afternoon in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 3300 block of West Ohio about 1:40 p.m. and found the 34-year-old with a gunshot wound to the left chest, authorities said. Webster was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:15 p.m..

A man was stabbed to death during a fight Monday morning in the Roseland neighborhood. Anthony Williams, 52, was fighting with someone in the 11400 block of South Indiana when the other person stabbed him multiple times at 7:54 a.m., according to authorities. Williams was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect ran away and is not in custody, police said.

The week's first homicide left a northwest suburban man dead and a woman injured in a South Loop shooting early Monday. About 4 a.m., 27-year-old Sami Talab Salaymeh and a 23-year-old woman were in a vehicle in the 2400 block of South Michigan Avenue when two people walked up, and one pulled a gun and opened fire, according to police and the medical examiner's office.

Salaymeh, of Hanover Park, was shot in the abdomen and arm; and the woman suffered a gunshot wound to the right leg, authorities said. They drove themselves to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where Salaymeh was pronounced dead and the woman was listed in good condition.

'We just left a funeral,' cousin laments after Antwon Brooks and Javil Nunn fatally shot on porch in Brainerd

Jeff Mayes — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 11:09:54 -0500

By ASHLEE REZIN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Mourners gather in the 9000 block of South Marshfield after two men were shot to death on a porch early Sunday. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Antwon Brooks and Javil D. Nunn were shot to death early Sunday on a porch in the Brainerd neighborhood, just hours after they attended the funeral for another victim of Chicago gun violence.

Officers responded at 1:13 a.m. to a call of shots fired in the 9000 block of South Marshfield and found the men, ages 33 and 42, unresponsive, according to Chicago Police.

The older man, identified as Brooks, was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:45 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The younger man, identified as Nunn, was also pronounced dead at the scene. Autopsies showed both men died of multiple gunshot wounds and their deaths were ruled homicides.

Chicago Police investigate in the 9000 block of South Marshfield, where two men were shot to death on a porch early Sunday. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Neighbors whose homes were surrounded by crime scene tape stood on porches and in their front yards as detectives investigated. The men, one covered by a white sheet and the other by a blue sheet, could be seen lying on the bungalow’s porch among at least 15 evidence markers.

Dontell Petty, 37, one of more than a dozen people gathered in the street outside the tape, said Brooks was his cousin and a graduate of Calumet High School. He had a son and daughter in their 20s, and four grandchildren.

“He was a good, caring daddy,” Petty said, adding he only knew Nunn as “Shoeshine.”

Petty said he grew up in Brainerd with Brooks—whom he called “Ice” because he was “slick as ice”—but has lived in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for about 10 years. He and his girlfriend drove from Wisconsin to Chicago for a Saturday afternoon funeral, and while en route, picked up Brooks in Racine, where Petty said the victim has lived off-and-on for about a year.

Petty, Brooks and Nunn all attended the funeral for 43-year-old Anreco D. Nichols, who was gunned down June 5 in his home in the 8100 block of South Harvard.

Petty said they were “longtime neighborhood friends,” and that he and Brooks also attended the recent funeral for Pamela Johnson, who was fatally struck by a truck on Lake Shore Drive when she and her boyfriend tried to run away from an armed robbery on May 29.

After Saturday’s funeral, Petty said, he, Brooks and “Shoeshine” were with a group at Gil’s Tieke Lounge, when Petty and his girlfriend left to buy cigarettes and beer.

“It was 20 or 30 minutes later, I was into my second beer, that’s when I got the bad news,” Petty said, adding that a friend called to tell him about the shooting.

He said he didn’t know the owners of the bungalow or why his cousin was on the porch.

“How they found him right there, that’s f****d up,” Petty said.

At the crime scene, a woman wailed and screamed as investigators removed the white sheet from one of the victims.

“That’s my baby! That’s my baby,” she cried as she collapsed in the street, flanked by silent supporters who hugged her and rubbed her back.

Petty darted back and forth around the tape, trying to get a look at the crime scene.

“He was a decent guy, a good daddy, but he was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” he said of Brooks.

“We just left a funeral, and now I gotta go to another one.”

Antwon Brooks | Homicide Watch Chicago

WEEK IN REVIEW: 12 killed in Chicago violence, including two who had gone to funeral of another shooting victim

'We just left a funeral,' cousin laments after Antwon Brooks and Javil Nunn fatally shot on porch in Brainerd