Homicides 100 and 101: Lance Jefferson and Samuel Head killed when gunmen open fire into party crowd in Woodlawn

Jeff Mayes — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 12:50:58 -0600

It was just about 1 a.m. Saturday when two people in hooded sweatshirts opened fire into a crowd of revelers at a party in the South Side Woodlawn neghborhood, leaving Lance A. Jefferson and Samuel D. Head dead, and a woman wounded.

Police investigate after a double homicide at a party in Woodlawn early Saturday. | Network Video Productions

The fatal shootings pushed the homicide total in the city over 100 in less than two months.

Just before 1 a.m., the suspects, both wearing hoodies, fired shots into a crowd at a party in the 6500 block of South Drexel. The 20-year-old Jefferson was struck in the face and torso; the 37-year-old Head in the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Jefferson, of the Washington Park neighborhood; and Head, who lived on the same block as the shooting, died at the scene, authorities said.

A 29-year-old woman suffered a graze wound to the thigh, and was taken in good condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. No one was in custody for the shooting as of early Monday.

The men were at least the 100th and 101st homicide victims in Chicago during the first 56 days of 2017, according to Chicago Sun-Times data. Last year, it was only one day earlier when the city topped 100 homicides.

Lance A. Jefferson | Homicide Watch Chicago

Homicides 100 and 101: Lance Jefferson and Samuel Head killed when gunmen open fire into party crowd in Woodlawn