James Jones | Homicide Watch Chicago

WEEK IN REVIEW: 11 killed the week of Thanksgiving

David Struett — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 10:49:32 -0600

At least 11 people were killed in Chicago the week of Thanksgiving, from November 20-26, including a 61-year-old man who was mutilated by his son, prosecutors said.

Carlton Edmondson | Chicago Police

On Saturday night at 9 p.m., officers responding to a well-being check at a home in the 11500 block of South Bishop found Carl Edmondson, 61, in the basement with “severe blunt trauma to the head” and lacerations to his groin, according to Chicago Police.

He was pronounced dead on the scene at 9:44 p.m.

The victim's 26-year-old son, Carlton Edmondson, was arrested and charged with the murder, prosecutors said. The son had been barred from visiting his father and had been served an order of protection taken out by his father just days before the killing.

After a raucous bond hearing, in which the younger Edmondson muttered and ranted, a judge ordered him held without bail.

Other homicides last week included:

Marquis Banks | Facebook

About 9:30 p.m. Sunday, one man was killed and another was critically wounded in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side. The men were standing on a street corner in the 2600 block of West 63rd when three males walked up and fired shots in their direction, according to Chicago Police. Marquis Banks, 28, of the same neighborhood, was shot in the chest and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 10:05 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. A 27-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to his abdomen and was also taken to Christ, where he was listed in critical condition.
An 18-year-old man was shot to death Sunday morning in the West Side Austin neighborhood. Mario Gaines was shot multiples time when another male walked up and fired at him about 10:01 a.m. in the 200 block of North Lockwood, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Gaines was taken to Loretto Hospital, where he died at 10:14 a.m., authorities said. He lived about three blocks from where he was shot.
A man was shot and killed Friday night in the Parkway Gardens neighborhood on the South Side. Officers responded to a call of shots fired shortly before 8 p.m. and found 22-year-old Hakeem Murray lying on the ground in the 6400 block of South Calumet, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Murray had been shot multiple times and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:53 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the Englewood neighborhood.
A downstate man was shot to death Friday evening in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side. About 5:05 p.m., 23-year-old Daniel Nash was in the 1500 block of South Ridgeway when a person walked up to him, fired shots and ran away, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Nash, who lived in downstate Fairview Heights, was shot in the head and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead less than 30 minutes later, authorities said. Area Central detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.
A 22-year-old man was shot to death Friday morning in the East Side neighborhood on the Far South Side. Manuel Salazar was a passenger in a vehicle at 10:18 a.m. in the 10000 block of South Avenue M when someone shot him from another vehicle, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Salazar taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:09 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the same neighborhood as the shooting. An autopsy found he died of a gunshot wound to the back, and his death was ruled a homicide.
Daimmyon Hackman | Facebook

A 27-year-old man was shot to death during an attempted robbery early Friday in the South Side Chatham neighborhood. Daimmyon Hackman, of downstate Bloomington, was sitting in a vehicle at 1:26 a.m. in the 7500 block of South St. Lawrence when someone walked up, pulled out a handgun and announced a robbery, according to Chicago Police. He refused to comply with the robber, who then shot him in his left armpit. Hackman was pronounced dead at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn at 2:28 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
A man was shot to death early Thursday in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, police said. James Jones, 38, was driving south through an alley with a female passenger at 1:35 a.m. in the 400 block of East 77th Street when they saw three males in the alley, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He drove up to the trio and the two groups exchanged words before one of the males pulled out a gun and shot him in the head, authorities said. Jones, of the Chatham neighborhood, was pronounced dead at the scene. The female got out of the vehicle and ran away after the shooting, police said. Police said she was being uncooperative with investigators.
Sharine Catchings | Facebook

A woman was found shot to death in a car early Wednesday behind a home in the Far South Side West Pullman neighborhood. Officers were called at 1:15 a.m. about a suspicious vehicle in the 11900 block of South Yale, according to Chicago Police. They arrived to find a blue Buick Regal on a parking slab behind a home. Sharine Catchings, 30, of the North Lawndale neighborhood was in the front passenger seat with a gunshot wound to the head, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. She was dead at the scene. Her death was ruled a homicide. Area South detectives are investigating.
A 53-year-old man was stabbed to death Tuesday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood, according to Chicago Police. Dennis Murphy was stabbed at 2:16 p.m. in the 4800 block of West Superior, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Murphy, who lived in the block, was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. A police source said the stabbing may be domestic related. A person of interest was in custody and taken to Loretto Hospital for treatment, police said.
One man was killed and a second was wounded in a West Garfield Park neighborhood drive-by shooting last week. Just after 5 p.m. on Nov. 20, a 26-year-old man and a 49-year-old man were in the 0-100 block of South Pulaski when a silver sedan drove by and someone inside opened fire and then drove off, according to Chicago Police. The older man, 49-year-old Maurice Robinson of the West Side Austin neighborhood, was shot multiple times and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:28 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The younger man was shot in the leg and was also taken to Stroger, where his condition was stabilized, police said.

–Homicide Watch Chicago

38-year-old James Jones fatally shot in Chatham alley

David Struett — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:12:05 -0600

James Jones, 38, was shot to death early Thursday in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, police said.

Jones was driving south through an alley with a female passenger at 1:35 a.m. in the 400 block of East 77th Street when they saw three males in the alley, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He drove up to the trio and the two groups exchanged words before one of the males pulled out a gun and shot him in the head, authorities said. Jones, of the Chatham neighborhood, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The female got out of the vehicle and ran away after the shooting, police said.

Police said she was being uncooperative with investigators.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

James Jones, son with troubled past, shields mom from gunfire, dies saving her in South Chicago

Jeff Mayes — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 20:13:43 -0500

By BECKY SCHLIKERMAN
Chicago Sun-Times

Most people wouldn’t consider James Jones a good guy. He sold drugs, according to his family. He’d been in prison and was out on parole.

But Saturday, when a man started shooting at Jones and his mother on the South Side, the 21-year-old covered his mother’s body with his own, shielding her and saving her life, said Dietra Luckett, Jones’ aunt.

“My sister just so happened to be coming out the front door,” Luckett said. “He took his body and put it on top of her body. He covered her body.”

Alicia Jones, 46, was wounded but survived. She underwent surgery at Advocate Christ Medical Center.

She knows her son saved her life, Luckett said, but doesn’t know he’s gone. Her sister said she’s been asking for him, saying, “Where’s James?”

James Jones

The shooting happened around noon in the 8400 block of South Colfax in South Chicago. James Jones and his mother were on their front porch when a man walked out of a gangway and fired in their direction, police said.

Luckett said her nephew had just gotten home from buying loose cigarettes at a neighbor’s home.

She said while he was there, someone “said something to him,” but James Jones “just rolled off on his bike and didn’t think nothing of it.”

When he got home, someone had parked a van in the alley and walked up to him and “said some more words,” according to Luckett. She said her nephew didn’t pay him any attention and tried to walk inside.

At that moment, as his mom was coming outside, the man opened fire, Luckett said.

Alicia Jones knew she had been shot and asked relatives to get her son off her, Luckett said, not realizing he was dead.

Her sister said family members don’t want to tell her yet her son’s dead while she’s still recovering in the hospital.

Her son, though no angel—relatives said he sold drugs, and court records show he has a criminal record and was on parole after being sentenced to prison for attempted burglary—saved his mother.

Police said the shooting was gang-related. They haven’t made an arrest.

Alicia Jones had four children. Now, three of her kids have died as a result of violence, according to her sister.

In 2006, Alicia Jones’ daughter, Antionette Means, was killed by a robber who emptied the cash drawer of the KFC where Means worked, then shot her for no apparent reason.

And in 1994, her 4-year-old son, Curtis Jones Jr. was killed when gang members threw a Molotov cocktail into a house, hoping to kill a rival gang member, prosecutors said then.

James Jones was only 5-months old at the time. He was saved when a cousin dropped him into a relative’s arms from the second story of the home.

At the scene of the shooting Saturday, someone left a handmade note to James Jones. It said only, “I love you.”