Killing Season Chicago, Wicker Park, July 2011


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Friday, November 12, 2010

Adrian Cantor, 29


Adrian Cantor sustained a gunshot wound to the chest at 5:51 p.m.on Wednesday the 9th of June inside the residence at 8944 South Burley Avenue in the South Chicago neighborhood after a dispute over a drug deal. He was pronounced dead three days later at 3:37 a.m. on June 12th at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital.

Photographing at the site

Marques Betties, 21


At 1:52 a.m. on June 12th, police found Marques Betties fatally shot in his back on the street at 130 N. Francisco Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. He was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital at 2:06 a.m.

Photographing at the site

William Huntley, 25 & Frenchie Ford, 25


William Huntley and Frenchie Ford were killed and another wounded on the afternoon of June 9th in a shooting in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side that stemmed from an argument at a funeral. Police said the three shooting victims were attending a funeral when quarreling broke out among the mourners. About 1:30 p.m., the argument resumed, and the three victims were shot during a post-funeral gathering in the backyard of a residence at 4750 South Forrestville Avenue. Police said the victims were gang-affiliated, but the person for whom the funeral was held was not.

Photographing at the site

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Antoine Wright, 37


Antoine Wright was wounded in an apparent drive-by shooting on June 7th at 1:27 p.m. in an alley at 4400 West Congress Parkway in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. He was pronounced dead two days after the shooting at 11:25 p.m. on June 9th at Stroger Hospital.

Photographing at the site the first time & the second time

Julian Gurierrez, 24


On June 8th, officers responded to shots fired at 4635 West Belmont Avenue at about 9:25 p.m. in the Cragin neighborhood on Chicago's Northwest Side. Arriving officers found Julian Gutierrez unresponsive and laying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the head.

Photographing at the site

Michael McMillan, 24


The owner of a Northwest Side pawn shop called Fullerton Pawners at 5900 W. Fullerton Avenue in the city's Belmont Cragin community shot and killed one of three men who tried robbing his business at gunpoint shortly before 1 p.m. on June 8th. Michael McMillan was dead at the scene, while a second of the robbers may have been wounded before he and a third man fled on foot. McMillion had a prior robbery conviction in 2006 and had been sentenced to the Cook County Sheriff's boot camp program.

Photographing at the site

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Mark Johnson "Jonathan Lee", 18


Mark Johnson died three days after being shot in the Grand Crossing neighborhood. Mark was shot just after 5 p.m. on the 4th of June in the street in front of 6716 Blackstone Avenue. He was pronounced dead at 1:17 p.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he was taken after suffering a gunshot wound to his head.

Photographing at the site the first time & the second time