Bobbie Jackson found with gunshot wound to head, second fatal shooting in three days in Altgeld Gardens

Jeff Mayes — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:48:13 -0600

Bobbie Jackson was found shot to death Wednesday evening in Altgeld Gardens, the second fatal shooting in three days in the Far South Side nieghborhood.

Officers responded shortly after 7 p.m. to a call of a person shot and found the 44-year-old Jackson lying on the ground and bleeding from the head in the 900 block of East 133rd Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Jackson, who lived in the same neighborhood, was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.

On Monday, 27-year-old Michael Lawrence-Harrington was killed in a shooting that happened just a block to the north.

The neighborhood’s first shooting this year happened a block west, where two men were seriously wounded last month.

--Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Man found shot to death in Altgeld Gardens identified as Michael Lawrence-Harrington

Jeff Mayes — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:56:49 -0600

A man found shot to death Monday night in a field in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood on the Far South Side has been identified as 27-year-old Michael Lawrence-Harrington.

Officers responding to a call of shots fired about 8:15 p.m. in the 900 block of East 132nd Street found him lying in a field with gunshot wounds to the chest and torso, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Lawrence-Harrington was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 9:25 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the Chatham neighborhood.

--Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Michael Lawrence-Harrington | Homicide Watch Chicago

Bobbie Jackson found with gunshot wound to head, second fatal shooting in three days in Altgeld Gardens

Man found shot to death in Altgeld Gardens identified as Michael Lawrence-Harrington