Micah Brown | Homicide Watch Chicagohttp://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/micah-brown/Latest news about Micah Brownen-usMon, 30 Oct 2017 17:28:41 -0500Man charged with fatal shooting of Micah Brown during fight in Marquette Park in Septemberhttp://homicides.suntimes.com/2017/10/30/man-charged-with-fatal-shooting-of-micah-brown-during-fight-in-marquette-park-in-september/<p><iframe src="http://homicides.suntimes.com/api/v1/homicides/2637.html" width="100%" height="350" frameborder="0"></iframe></p> <p>A parolee has been denied bond after he was charged with the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/micah-brown/">Micah Brown</a> last month in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.</p> <img class="size-medium wp-image-29477" src="http://wordpress.homicidewatch.org/chicago/files/2017/10/a44cf30398874e68be13b75cd01229b9-225x300.jpg" alt="Raphael Young | Chicago Police" width="225" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Raphael Young | Chicago Police</p> <p><a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/suspects/raphael-young/">Raphael Young</a>, 30, faces one count of first-degree murder in connection with the Sept. 15 shooting of Brown, according to Chicago Police.</p> <p>Officers responding to a call of shots fired at 11:14 a.m. found Brown lying unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the chest in the 6400 block of South Talman, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.</p> <p>Prosecutors said Brown and Young had been involved in a fight, and after Brown struck Young in the face, he pulled out a gun and shot Brown, who was pronounced dead at the scene.</p> <p>He had lived in the Gresham neighborhood.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">Young, of Marquette Park, was on parole at the time of the shooting for drug and weapons violations, according to Illinois Department of Corrections records.</p> <p>Young, who was on parole for a drug conviction, was ordered held without bond. He was next scheduled to appear in court Monday.</p> <p><em>—Chicago Sun-Times Wire</em></p> David StruettMon, 30 Oct 2017 17:28:41 -0500http://homicides.suntimes.com/2017/10/30/man-charged-with-fatal-shooting-of-micah-brown-during-fight-in-marquette-park-in-september/Micah Brown