Labor Day (1)

Jennifer Alvarado
20s
A woman was shot and killed while sitting in a vehicle in the Southwest Side's Little Village neighborhood. Alvarado was a passenger in the front seat of the vehicle as it was headed west in the 2700 block of West 24th Street about 5:30 p.m. when another vehicle pulled up. Shots were fired and the victim told her driver she had been hit.

Saturday (1)

Theresa Russell
23 years old
Chicago police are investigating the slaying of a woman found shot to death in the Englewood neighborhood this morning.
Officers found Russell in the 6400 block of South Morgan Street about 2:50 a.m. with a gunshot wound to the back.

5 More Dead in 2 Separate Incidents

Alonso Villarreal
32 years old
Roberto Rivera
30 years old
Noel Casares
25 years old
Luis Santillian
30 years old
Four men were found shot to death in a garage in Chicago's West Lawn neighborhood with their hands, feet and mouths bound with duct tape.They were found face down on the garage floor, their hands behind their backs. All of them appeared to have been shot in the head. "Multiple weapons" were found at the scene in the 6100 block of South Kildare Avenue, but the motive for the slayings was not known. Police said the shootings, which occurred at about 8:30 p.m. Thursday, were "an isolated incident."



Jeremy Brooks
17 years old
The shooting happened about 2:15 p.m. in an alley near East 78th Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue in the Chatham neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. The teenager was shot several times by one of two people who confronted him. The victim staggered behind a church near 78th and Cottage Grove and was taken to Jackson Park Hospital by ambulance. Police turned out in force in the neighborhood, with a swarm of officers in the area with M4 rifles, because the victim is the younger brother of a top member of the Gangster Disciples and police fear a retaliation shooting.

1 Shot & Killed/1 Life Saved

Johnnie Dyer
38 years old
Preliminary reports said Dyer was standing outside in the 3000 block of West 5th Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood shortly before midnight when someone approached and shot him several times. He was pronounced dead at 12:38 a.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital.

ONE LIFE SAVED

Malik Mentor was standing outside his apartment building in the South Chicago neighborhood Tuesday evening when four shots rang out across the street. He saw a boy try to run, then collapse to the ground. "When he fell ... the guy walked up to him and then pointed the gun in his face about to blow his brains out," Mentor said. According to Mentor, the wounded boy lay on the ground and pleaded for his life. Mentor said he screamed at the gunman, "Man, please can you give him another chance." The gunman looked up at Mentor. "I started begging," Mentor said.

In neighborhoods dominated by gangs, staying quiet is a common response to shootings. A man working on Mentor's building, who asked that his name not be used, said he heard Mentor and another man pleading with the gunman and told them it was better not to say anything.

Mentor continued. At first, neither his pleas nor those from the wounded teen appeared to change the gunman's intentions, he said. "He keep coming forward to him ... he wanted to kill the kid," said Mentor, adding he had seen the victim and gunman in the neighborhood before. Only when Mentor pulled out his cell phone and dialed 911 did the gunman leave, Mentor said.

(1)

Jovanni Gudino
24 years old
Chicago police and paramedics responded about 10 p.m. Tuesday night to the 6700 block of South Tripp Avenue where Gudino was shot in the head in a vehicle outside his home in the West Lawn neighborhood. The victim was a passenger inside a vehicle when two male assailants approached and at least one shot him. He was pronounced dead at 3:12 p.m. this afternoon at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.

Liquor Store Shooting (1)

Marcus Marshall
19 years old
Marshall was killed and a 21-year-old man was critically wounded when two men entered a South Side liquor store and began firing. Marshall was shot in the head and chest about 12:40 a.m. at the store in the 5700 block of South State Street. The other victim was taken in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound to his head.

2 More Dead in West Side Shootings

Paul Harris
25 years old
Police and paramedics responded shortly after 1:30 a.m. to the 1100 block of West Madison Street and found Harris lying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to his torso. Police said Harris was shot across the street from the bar following an argument with an unknown assailant who took out a gun and shot him. Harris had not been in the bar. He was pronounced dead at 2:13 a.m. at Stroger Hospital.



Anthony Carter
18 years old
Carter was standing outside his West Garfield Park home Monday night, waiting for his grandmother to return from a neighborhood store with snacks. As his grandmother approached with potato chips and pop, she heard the sound of eight or nine gunshots fired. Carter was shot multiple times in the back. When officers arrived at the scene on the 4000 block of West Jackson Boulevard, they found Carter unresponsive.

1 Killed & at Least 6 Wounded in Shootings Overnight

David Johnson
31 years old
Preliminary reports said Johnson was found dead sitting in a vehicle with a gunshot wound to his head. The slaying happened shortly after 7 p.m. in the 1500 block of West 51st Street in the city's Back of the Yards neighborhood. Preliminary reports said the man was sitting in a parked vehicle when someone approached, pulled out a gun and shot him. He was pronounced dead at 7:37 p.m. at Stroger Hospital

Update: Saturday Night (6)

Adolfo Guijardo-Soria
17 years old
At about 11:45 p.m. in Gage Park, Guijardo-Soria, was standing outside during a block party in the 5800 block of South Campbell Avenue when he was shot in the head. He was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3:50 a.m.



Darrell McKinney
15 years old
McKinney was on a sidewalk in the 900 block of North Harding at about 8:40 p.m. at a block party in the Humboldt Park neighborhood when he was shot when a suspect opened fire on another man during a foot chase. He died a short time later. Witnesses told police that just prior to the shooting they saw a male in a black shirt chasing another male in a white shirt on Harding.



Wesley Taylor
23 years old
At about 6:30 p.m. two men were at a block party in the 4400 block of West Wilcox Street in the West Garfield Park neighborhood when they followed several people into an alley and got into a fight. Taylor was found lying in the alley. He was shot several times and pronounced dead at the emergency room at Mount Sinai Hospital.



Unidentified
Unknown
An autopsy today showed that the woman whose body was found burned in a West Side alley Saturday morning was beaten to death. Officials determined that the woman had been assaulted and ruled the woman's death a homicide due to evidence of blunt head trauma. Her body was found when officers were called to the 2800 block of West Washington Avenue at about 4:30 a.m. Detectives are still trying to identify the woman, who was doused with an unknown flammable substance and ignited.



George Esco
57 years old
Esco had been the victim of a battery seven weeks ago at about 8 p.m. on July 10 in the 5300 block of West North Avenue. He was declared dead at 12:30 a.m. at Holy Cross Hospital. Following an autopsy today, the medical examiner's office determined Esco's death was a homicide, and that he died of head injuries from blunt head trauma in an assault.



Edward Ramos
24 years old
At about 12:10 a.m., police responded to a call for a man with a gunshot wound to his chest at the man's home on the 7000 block of West Grand Avenue in the Northwest Side Montclare neighborhood. According to preliminary information, three males kicked in a side door to a house and then fired shots, hitting him in the chest. Ramos was pronounced dead at 5:36 a.m. at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital.

Another Dead From Gunshot Wound

Luis Perez
18 years old
On Wednesday, August 25th at about 4:40 p.m. police responded to the 5700 block of South Sawyer Avenue in the Gage Park neighborhood, where they found Perez with a gunshot wound to his right cheek. Preliminary reports indicated that Perez was standing on the street when a group approached in a car, shouted gang slogans and shot him. Perez had been taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center, but was pronounced dead two days after being shot at 4:10 a.m.

Street Fight (1)

Laverick Marshall
29 years old
At about 11:30 p.m., officers responded to a call of a large crowd fighting near 64th Street and South King Drive in the Woodlawn neighborhood. When the crowd was cleared, Marshall was found shot in the back nearby. He was taken to the hospital where he later died.

Update: Tuesday/Wednesday (2)

Debra Haywood-Hughes
44 years old
A woman was found stabbed to death this morning at 3:41 a.m. inside her residence in the 7000 block of South King Drive on the South Side in the city's Park Manor neighborhood. Preliminary reports said she had a "puncture wound" to the body. Police said the stabbing was domestically related, but no details were available about the circumstances leading up to the slaying.


Tuesday, August 24th


Tyrone Clark
27 years old
Clark was shot and killed early this morning near his residence in the South Side's Back of the Yards neighborhood. The shooting happened about 4:40 a.m. in the 1400 block of West 54th Street. He was pronounced dead at 5:20 a.m. at Mt. Sinai Hospital. Police said Clark had been shot in the back.

Driving Incident (1)

Linton Goldsmith
33 years old
Goldsmith was driving a van at about 1:00 a.m. when he was shot in the face and killed. Preliminary reports said he was driving when another vehicle pulled up and someone inside fired shots into the van. The van struck a tree and flipped over but the five other people inside were not injured. Goldsmith was found unresponsive in the 8000 block of South Jeffery Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.

Sunday into the Early Hours of Monday (2)

Kirk McCullough
45 years old
McCullough, was found shot to death this morning in the 4400 block of West Madison Street in West Garfield Park near The Taste Bud Banquet Hall and Restaurant where he was a bouncer. He was found sitting in his car with a gunshot wound to the back of his head about 1:15 a.m. He was pronounced dead at 1:28 a.m. at Stroger Hospital. Police said he had gang affiliations.



Ronnie Peterson
23 years old
Peterson, who was found shot in the head in his car Sunday afternoon in the 5000 block of West Monroe Street in the Austin neighborhood, has died. Preliminary reports said a vehicle pulled up next to Peterson's car and someone inside fired several shots at him. He was pronounced dead at Mt. Sinai Hospital at 5:55 p.m.

At Least 10 Wounded & 1 Dead in Shootings Overnight (Saturday/Sunday)

Donzel Swanigan
30 years old
At about 1:55 a.m., police responded to a battery in progress and found Swanigan dead in a vacant lot near a large house party in the 300 block of South Kostner Avenue in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side. He was fatally shot in the neck.

Early Saturday Morning (2)

Julio Castrumita
22 years old
At about 2:10 a.m., police responded to the 2800 block of West Pershing Road in the Brighton Park neighborhood and found two people shot. Castrumita was shot in the head. He was pronounced dead at 4:19 a.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital.



Bennie Madison
39 years old
At about 1:35 a.m., police responded to a man shot near West 43rd Street and South Federal Street on Chicago's South Side where they found Madison shot. He was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital, but was pronounced dead at 2:21 a.m.

Rough Ending to Mid-August Week (5)

Friday August 20th


Anthony Anglin
71 years old
Masked men forced their way into the home in the 10800 block of South Sangamon in the Morgan Park neighborhood at around 1 a.m., ransacked the house and shot Anglin in the chest. Anglin's son told police he, a woman and his father were at home when two armed masked men came into the house. The son and the woman ran out but his father was shot. Soon afterwards, Morgan Park District police stopped a car without its lights on. They questioned three men inside and, after noticing their "nervousness," patted them down. On two of the men, they found black masks and more than $2,000 in cash. All three men were taken into custody.



Domingo Hernandez
Unknown
Hernandez was shot Monday night in the 4900 block of West Walton Street in the West Side's Austin neighborhood along with a 17-year-old boy as the two were loading furniture into a truck in an alley. About 9 p.m., officers responded to Walton Street and the found Hernandez shot in the head and the boy shot in the knee after an unknown person fired shots at them. Hernandez was pronounced dead early Friday morning.


Thursday August 19th


Roger Kizer
31 years old
Another drive-by happened at about 11:30 p.m. killing Kizer and wounding another man in the 7400 block of South Kenwood Avenue in the Grand Crossing neighborhood. He was slain a house down from where he lived and was dead at the scene.



Schirron Hoskins
18 years old
The first shooting happened about 10 p.m. in the 6200 block of South Paulina Street in the West Englewood neighborhood when shots were fired from a vehicle traveling eastbound killing Hoskins and wounding two others. Hoskins was shot in the head and pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 10:52 p.m.



Jaime Ramirez
27 years old
According to Chicago police officials, a dark-colored sport utility vehicle drove past Ramirez at about 3:45 a.m. when someone from inside the vehicle shouted gang slogans and a gunman from inside began shooting, hitting Ramirez multiple times. He was found several doors away from his home in the 9100 block of South Burley Avenue in the South Chicago neighborhood. He was pronounced dead at 4:45 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center.

3 Shot & Killed in Less Than 16 Hours

Thursday August 19th


Olutosin Bajomo
29 years old
Bajomo was shot in the head and killed in an alley near his home in the Edgewater neighborhood on the North Side. Police and paramedics responded about 2:22 a.m. to the 1000 block of West Ardmore Avenue and found the victim at the mouth of the alley on the north side of Ardmore Avenue. Surveillance video from the area shows a vehicle parked in the alley. One of the men got out and approached Bajomo as he was walking east along Ardmore toward Sheridan Road. The man then shot Bajomo several times. He was pronounced dead at 2:57 a.m. at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston.


Wednesday August 18th


Terrance Cooper
28 years old
Cooper had come out of a store with a friend on the 3300 block of West 63rd Street in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, when an assailant approached and shot him multiple times. Officers found him on the street about 10:30 p.m. He was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn at 11:55 p.m.



Marshalla Johnson
28 years old
Johnson was fatally shot at her Near West Side residence in the 1000 block of West 14th Street on Wednesday. Police have taken her husband into custody in connection with the slaying. She was found shot in the head at the residence about 11:15 a.m.

Update: Monday night into Tuesday Morning (3)

Anthony Clemons
44 years old
Clemons was shot and killed this morning in the West Side's Lawndale neighborhood. The shooting happened about 8:25 a.m. in the 4100 block of West Grenshaw Street. He was pronounced dead at 8:47 a.m. at Mt. Sinai Hospital.



Angel Rebolledo
29 years old
Rebolledo died and two others were wounded this morning in a shooting in the city's Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Shortly after midnight, officers responded to the 2300 block of North Keeler Avenue and found three people with gunshot wounds. Preliminary reports said the victims were standing outside. Rebolledo was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 1:02 a.m.



Brian Daniel
33 years old
Preliminary reports said Daniel was shot while he was standing on the corner of Leamington Avenue and Monroe Street. The shooting happened at about 4:45 p.m. in the 5100 block of West Monroe Street in the West Side's Austin neighborhood. The victims were playing cards when three male assailants approached and opened fire. Two other suspects fired shots at a group across the street from where Daniel was standing, striking the youth while he tired to run from the scene. Daniel was pronounced dead at 8:30 p.m. Monday at Stroger Hospital. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds. The other victim, a 15-year-old boy, suffered a gunshot wound to his arm and was treated and released at Loretto Hospital. The shooting was possibly gang-related.

Monday (1)

Alexander Mercado
16 years old
Mercado, a man, and a woman were sitting in a parked car in the 4100 block of North Albany Avenue in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood at about 1:45 a.m. when someone walked up and started a conversation with them. Soon after the suspect opened fire into the car. The woman switched places with one of the gunshot victims and drove to the 4000 block of North Whipple Street, where she called police. Mercado was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 2:33 a.m. The other man was listed as stable at the hospital. The woman said the gunman fled the scene in a dark-colored vehicle.