Kirklinn Fowlkes, 19

On July 23rd, Kirklinn Fowlkes and two others were sitting on a porch at 2939 West 81st Street in the Southwest Side's Wrightwood neighborhood. They got into an argument with another group of people. Kirklinn was shot in the back, another person suffered a graze wound, and the third broke their wrist jumping from the porch to escape the melee. The shooting happened about 11:30 a.m. Kirklinn was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 12:19 p.m. Cook County court records show he was charged in June with felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, a case that was still pending in court when he died.

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Dwight Miller, 27

Dwight Miller received a call at about 10:10 p.m. on July 22nd asking him to step outside his house to meet someone on his porch at 7807 South Union Avenue in the Far South Side’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood. When he stepped outside, he was shot several times in the face. He was found dead on the scene.

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Kevin Banks, 26

Two people were shot at about 11:40 p.m. on July 21st in the front yard of 8151 South Winchester Avenue in the Gresham neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. One of the men, Kevin Banks, was found unresponsive on the scene with a gunshot wound to his head.

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Terrance Dishman, 19

At about 9 pm on July 19th, two people were reported shot at 5130 South May Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. One of the victims, Terrance Dishman, was pronounced dead at 9:30 p.m. at Stroger Hospital from a gunshot wound to the back. 


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Jaymeon Wyatt, 1

On July 17th, Jaymeon Wyatt, just 21-months-old, was taken to a local hospital with multiple injuries consistent with a beating. He was pronounced dead the following afternoon at 1:05 p.m. at the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital. After an autopsy, it was found that the boy died of cranial cerebral injuries and blunt head trauma resulting from abuse. His death was ruled a homicide. The boy lived at 115 East 49th Street.

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Harvey Space, 35

Harvey Space, who was on parole, was shot to death as he sat in his car in front of 4845 West Van Buren Street near his West Side home on July 18th. It was about 9:15 a.m. when someone pulled up nearby in a four-door brown car, got out, and shot at him several times through the front windshield of his car. The attacker got back into the car and it drove off. Harvey was taken to Stroger Hospital and declared dead at 10 a.m. from multiple gunshot wounds. According to the corrections department, he had scars from previous gunshot wounds.

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Michael R. Bailey, 62

On the morning of July 18th, Michael Bailey, a police officer, was coming home from an overnight shift guarding Mayor Richard Daley's home when as many as three men approached him while cleaning his brand new Buick that was parked outside of 7421 South Evans Avenue. Bailey announced he was an officer. There was an exchange of gunfire between him and at least one of the men. He was shot a little after 6 a.m. The officer's son, who was home at the time, grabbed one of his father's guns and ran outside after he saw his father on the ground. It was unclear if the son fired any shots at the attackers. Officer Bailey was pronounced dead at 6:41 a.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

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