WEEK IN REVIEW: At least 7 people were fatally shot in Chicago in the last week

Jeff Mayes — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 16:00:32 -0600

By JEFF MAYES
Homicide Watch Chicago
At least seven people were fatally shot in Chicago last week, four of them during a violent weekend during which nearly 30 shootings were reported by police.

A 29-year-old man was shot and killed Sunday morning in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side.

Brandon Miles was in the driver’s seat of a car when someone opened fire from another car about 6:15 a.m. in the 1000 block of West 50th Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Miles was taken to Stroger Hospital with gunshot wounds to his back and neck, and later died there, authorities said.

A 25-year-old man was found with fatal gunshot wounds Saturday morning in Humboldt Park. Officers found Frankie Gutierrez unresponsive in the passenger’s seat just after 7 a.m. in the 800 block of North Avers, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

Gutierrez was pronounced dead on the way to Mount Sinai Hospital.

A man was killed in a Gage Park neighborhood shooting Friday evening. Officers found 64-year-old Jose Arreola unresponsive on a sidewalk in the 5100 block of South Troy with multiple gunshot wounds to the abdomen and legs at 7:09 p.m., police and the medical examiner’s office said.

Arreola, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he later died, authorities said.

Lamont Alexander was fatally shot Friday afternoon in North Lawndale. Police called the shooting domestic-related.

The 23-year-old was fighting with two people on a sidewalk in the 4100 block of West 21st Street just before 4 p.m. when one of the other two pulled a gun and shot him in the head, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

Alexander, who lived on the same block as the shooting, was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:24 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. He died of a gunshot wound to the head and his death was ruled a homicide.

A 63-year-old school bus driver was shot to death Thursday morning in the West Pullman neighborhood. Anthony Bowers was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head about 6 a.m. in the 12000 block of South Michigan Avenue, according to police and the medical examiner's office.

Bowers, who lived on the same block, was pronounced dead at the scene.

A 22-year-old man died a day after being shot in the head near the CTA’s Kimball Brown Line station Monday evening.

Gabriel Claudio was standing outside in the 4700 block of North Kimball about 5:30 p.m. when someone walked out of an alley and started shooting, striking him in the head, arm and thigh, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

Claudio was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he died about 25 hours later, authorities said.

The week's first homicide was 16-year-old boy shot to death early Tuesday in the East Chatham neighborhood. Ty'Sean D. Rollins Smith was found unresponsive at 1:07 a.m. in a hallway of an apartment building in the 800 block of East 83rd Street, according to police and the medical examiner's office.

He had been shot in the chest and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead.

64-year-old Jose Arreola fatally shot in Gage Park

Jeff Mayes — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 15:45:54 -0600

Sixty-four-year-old Jose Arreola was killed in a Gage Park neighborhood shooting Friday evening on the Southwest Side.

Officers found Arreola unresponsive on a sidewalk at 7:09 p.m. in the 5100 block of South Troy. He had been shot multiple times in the abdomen and legs, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Arreola, who lived in the 5100 block of South Albany, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he later died, authorities said.

--Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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WEEK IN REVIEW: At least 7 people were fatally shot in Chicago in the last week

64-year-old Jose Arreola fatally shot in Gage Park