Prosecutors: Stanley Parker fatally shot ex-girlfriend's new beau Devin Pope

Michael Lansu — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 08:51:57 -0500

Stanley Parker / Photo from Cook County Sheriff's office

BY BRIAN SLODYSKO
Homicide Watch Chicago

A Chicago man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend’s new beau earlier this month was ordered held without bond by a Cook County judge on Sunday.

Stanley “Rah Rah” Parker, 20, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the Aug. 1 fatal shooting of Devin Pope.

Pope was shot in the head outside his girlfriend’s apartment near East 67th Street and South Clyde Avenue, prosecutors said.

Pope, 23, had only recently taken up with Parker’s ex-girlfriend, prosecutors said. They went out for food early Aug. 1. When they returned, Pope looked for a parking spot while the 23-year-old woman went up to her apartment.

She was on her way downstairs to let Pope in when she heard a gunshot, prosecutors said. She found Pope lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to his head on a walkway outside her building. The woman saw Parker running from the scene, prosecutors said.

Parker, who had dated the woman for about 2 1/2 years, later contacted the woman’s family and confessed to the shooting, prosecutors said.

He was apprehended by U.S. marshals at an undisclosed location last week, according to court records.

WEEK IN REVIEW: Eight murdered throughout Chicago

Michael Lansu — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 09:50:46 -0500

BY MICHAEL LANSU
Homicide Watch Chicago Editor

Eight people were murdered throughout Chicago last week.

Five of the killings happened over the weekend, when 29 people were shot.

The most recent murder happened when 17-year-old Jerome Harris was shot in the neck in the 1100 block of West 112th Place about 9 p.m. Sunday, authorities said.

Harris, of the 11000 block of South State Street, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died about an hour later, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

In the West Garfield Park neighborhood, 33-year-old Brian Davis was shot in the back in the 4100 block of West Jackson Boulevard about 7:25 p.m. Sunday, authorities said. Davis, of the 200 block of South Central Avenue, died at Mount Sinai Hospital less than an hour later, according to the medical examiner’s office.

On the Near North Side, 32-year-old Martrell Ross was fatally shot in the 800 block of North Orleans Street about 3:50 a.m. Sunday, authorities said. Ross, of the 300 block of South Mozart Street, died at the scene, according to the medical examiner's office.

The shooting happened near nightclubs where rappers Nas and Big Boi were holding separate Lollapalooza after parties.

On Friday, 16-year-old Ramon Breceda was shot in the chest in the 2400 block of South Washtenaw Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood about 11:30 p.m., authorities said. Breceda, of the 2700 block of West 23rd Street, died less than an hour later at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, according to the medical examiner's office.

Prosecutors said aspiring Lating Kings Andrew Anania, 18, Ricardo Cortez, 15, and Eduardo Moreno, 15, shot Breceda as part of a gang initiation. All three were charged with first-degree murder.

About the same time in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, 28-year-old Orlando Lomax was stabbed and beaten to death during a fight with four males in the 3900 block of West North Avenue, authorities said.

Lomax, of the 1500 block of North Karlov, died at Mount Sinai Hospital minutes later, according to the medical examiner’s office.

In the South Shore neighborhood, police found 23-year-old Devin Pope fatally shot in the entryway of an apartment in the 6700 block of South Clyde Avenue about 3:40 a.m. Friday, authorities said.

Pope, of the 7200 block of South Paxton Avenue, died at the scene, according to the medical examiner’s office.

On Thursday, 34-year-old Samuel Walker Sr. was fatally shot in a driveway in the 4100 block of West Crystal Street in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, authorities said.

The killing happened just two days before the funeral for his slain 13-year-old son, Samuel Walker Jr., who was fatally shot a week earlier in the East Garfield Park neighborhood.

The killings started when 49-year-old Alvin Ivy was shot in the 200 block of South Western Avenue about 10 p.m. Tuesday, according to authorities. Police said Ivy and two teenagers were standing outside when a male exited a dark car and opened fire.

Ivy, of the 1300 block of South Kedzie Avenue, was shot in the chest and died at Stroger Hospital a short time later, authorities said. The teenagers, 17 and 18, were each shot in the leg and taken to Stroger Hospital for treatment, police said.

Additionally, 46-year-old Antwan James, of the 8000 block of South Carpenter Street, died Sunday morning after being shot July 21 in an alley in the 1200 block of West 72nd Place, authorities said.

Overall, the medical examiner’s office has ruled at least 239 Chicago deaths in 2014 a homicide — including nine people killed by police.

Additionally, the state’s attorney’s office filed first-degree murder charges against a speeding motorist who killed an off-duty police officer while trying to flee police even though the autopsy ruled the death an accident.

Chicago Police, which counts murders different, have ruled some of those homicides as involuntary manslaughter, justified self-defense or accidents.

Devin Pope fatally shot in South Shore

Michael Lansu — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 22:33:54 -0500

Devin Pope was shot to death early Friday in the South Shore neighborhood.

Officers responding to a call of a person down found Pope, 23, shot to death in the entryway of an apartment in the 6700 block of South Clyde Avenue about 3:40 a.m., authorities said.

Pope, of the 7200 block of South Paxton Avenue, died at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Nobody has been charged for the murder.

Area Central detectives are investigating.

-- Sun-Times Media Wire

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Prosecutors: Stanley Parker fatally shot ex-girlfriend's new beau Devin Pope

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