http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/joseph-gaithers/Latest news about Joseph Gaithersen-usThu, 09 Jul 2015 09:35:03 -0500http://homicides.suntimes.com/2015/07/09/joseph-gaithers-dies-hours-after-being-shot-in-head-in-chatham/<p><iframe src="http://homicides.suntimes.com/api/v1/homicides/1114.html" width="100%" height="350" frameborder=0></iframe></p> <p><a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/joseph-gaithers/">Joseph Gaithers</a> died about four hours after being shot in the head Wednesday afternoon in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.<br /> <a href="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2015/07/JosephGaithers.jpg"><img src="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2015/07/JosephGaithers.jpg" alt="Joseph Gaithers" width="202" height="223" class="size-full wp-image-12320" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Joseph Gaithers</p><br /> About 1:15 p.m., Gaithers, 35, was talking with someone in the 8000 block of South King Drive, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The other person pulled a gun and shot Gaithers in the head.</p> <p>Gaithers, of the 6300 block of South Calumet, was taken in critical condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 5:31 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. </p> <p><em>—Chicago Sun-Times Wire</em></p> Jeff MayesThu, 09 Jul 2015 09:35:03 -0500http://homicides.suntimes.com/2015/07/09/joseph-gaithers-dies-hours-after-being-shot-in-head-in-chatham/Joseph Gaithers