Update: Weekend: July Moving into August (6)

August 1st


Samuel Coleman
20 years old
Police were called to the 12400 block of South Eggleston Avenue in the Far South Side's West Pullman neighborhood at about 12:30 p.m. where a had been shot in the neck and killed. There are no further details available.


Michael Chatman
22 years old
Reginald Riley
22 years old
Two men were killed and two others wounded early this morning in a drive-by shooting in the South Side's Stony Island Park neighborhood. At 2:39 a.m., four men, all in their 20s, were near a party at East 84th Street and South Euclid Avenue. One man was at the party, two were coming to the party by car and a fourth man was standing in the street talking with his girlfriend when a dark car drove past and shots rang out. Chatman was shot in the neck and later pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center. A second 22-year-old was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at Norwegian-American Hospital. The two others that were wounded are in stable condition.


July 31st


Aniya Crockett
2 years old
Crockett, of the 6800 block of South Wood Street, was found unresponsive while in the care of a relative who called the paramedics in her South Side home. An autopsy said that she died from multiple blunt force trauma resulting from child abuse. She was pronounced dead at Holy Cross Hospital at about noon Saturday. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has opened an investigation into an allegation abuse against a friend of Aniya's mother's.


July 30th


Miguel Vasquez
21 years old
At about 11:55 p.m. two men were shot, one fatally, in the 4900 block of West School Street. They were sitting on a porch at this address when they began to argue with a suspect. The suspect fired shots at them before fleeing through a gangway into a vehicle in the alley. Vasquez, a resident of the School address, was pronounced dead at 12:53 a.m. at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. He suffered a gunshot wound to his abdomen. The other man was shot in his right shoulder and is listed in stable condition.


Jeremy Johnson
23 years old
A man was found dead in an alley Friday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood at about 4:45 p.m. Police responded to calls of a person with head injuries down in an alley in the 4600 block of West Superior Street. Johnson had been shot multiple times at the above address and was dead on the scene.