Killing Season Chicago, Wicker Park, July 2011


Click on the names of the deceased on the right navigation panel to see images of the sites and information about the circumstances of their deaths.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Myron Farris, 38


Myron Farris was in his garage at 4228 West 21st Place at about 2:30 p.m. on July 17th in the West Side's Lawndale neighborhood when two gunmen approached and began shooting, striking him in the face. When police arrived they found him dead on the scene.

Photographing at the site

Emmanuel Leeks, 23


At about 12:45 a.m. on Saturday July 17th, Emmanuel Leeks and a 20-year-old woman were sitting in a vehicle at 2126 North Springfield Avenue in the Logan Square neighborhood when someone fired several times into the car, striking him in the abdomen. The woman suffered a superficial wound. Emmanuel was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 4:11 p.m.

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Reggie Coles, 29


On July 17th, police responded to reports of a man who was shot in the face at 12:34 a.m. in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side. Reggie Coles was in the playground behind Delano Elementary School, located at 3937 W. Wilcox Street, watching or playing basketball when gunshots were fired into the crowd. He was struck by a bullet and was pronounced dead at 1:11 a.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital.

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Quanda Crider, 37


Quanda Crider was found dead at 12:53 p.m. on Friday July 16th in an abandoned building at 816 W. Marquette Road in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side. An autopsy determined Quanda died from strangulation and blunt force trauma due to an assault.

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Jeremiah Sterling, 16


On July 15th, Jeremiah Sterling ran away from a gunman pursuing him through a yard near his home in the Far South Side's West Pullman neighborhood, but the teen didn't make it. He was shot at about 3:40 p.m. at least seven times, twice in the head, in an alley behind the his home at 11525 South May Street. He was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn at 4:30 p.m.

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Monday, November 29, 2010

Anthony Cox, 16


Anthony Cox was shot in the chest shortly before 7 a.m. on July 15th in front of a liquor store at 6647 South Halsted Street, a block from his home, in the Englewood neighborhood. Anthony was out riding his motorbike when a gunman approached him on a bicycle. His family and friends believe his brother was the target but that the gunman turned on him. He was pronounced dead at 7:46 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center. Police believe the shooting was gang-related.

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Jerome Cole Muhammad, 33


At 12:53 a.m. on July 11th, police found Jerome Cole Muhammad with gunshot wounds to his head, thighs, groin and arm in the alley at 1735 West 83rd Street in the South Side's Gresham neighborhood. The suspects came out of an alley, shot him in the legs and at least one of the killers stood over him and shot him in the face. They then fled east. Jerome was pronounced dead at 1:35 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center. Police say he was a CTA mechanic and had no gang affiliation.

Photographing at the site