Beginning on Memorial Day and ending on Labor Day of 2010, I tracked the homicides within the city limits of Chicago. Once the crime scenes were processed and the red tape was taken down, I visited and photographed the site of each murder. There were 172 homicides within that time period of roughly 3 months. The resulting physical piece is a 56-foot long installation of the photographs against a caution-orange background placed in a chronological graph. The form draws attention to the homicides and their frequency in a schematic way. Moving left to right in the piece, there is one column for each day the project spans. Stacked photographs in each column reflect the number of homicides that day as well as document each crime scene. From afar, the arrangement mimics a city skyline and begs the viewer to consider whether this violence is part of the fabric of the urban environment. The sheer number of images coupled with their small size (5.5” x 8.25” and 5.5” x 3.67”) forces the viewer to come in and take a closer look. What they find are quiet, peopleless images of sites that all look vaguely familiar; sidewalks in front of two-flats, garages in back alleys, gangways, playgrounds and street corners. They will also find is the occasional scraps of red or yellow tape, RIPs scrawled on walls, piles of stuffed animals, impeccably arranged empty liquor bottles and a metal cross nailed to a tree. These small clues indicate that these are not just arbitrary locations, but the settings of murders.
Killing Season Chicago is a memorial constructed of temporary materials that change with each iteration and are destroyed after each installation’s exhibition. This wall, constructed of foam and held together by wood and tape, will degrade over time, just as the memory/image of each person killed degrades the vitality of the city itself.
Pekovitch was standing in the street in front of 3251 West Division Street in the Humbolt Park neighborhood on May 27th, Thursday evening preceding Memorial Day weekend, when he was shot. He died from injuries sustained from from a gun shot wound to the head on just two days later on Saturday May 29th.
He was the first casualty of the 2010 Killing Season.
On the 30th of May, officers responded to shots fired at 5115 South Laflin Street on Chicago's South Side at about 12:30 a.m. and found Murphy with a gunshot wound to his head. He was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition where he was pronounced dead at 1:10 a.m.
Murphy was one of seven people killed over Memorial Day weekend.
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On May 30th, Olivia was walking with a companion at about 1:00 a.m. at 3300 South Ashland Avenue when three men approached and "without provocation" struck his head with the bat. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where a doctor determined that he also had been stabbed twice in the back. He was taken into surgery, but doctors were unable to save his life. He was pronounced dead at 5:42 a.m.
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Frankie Zamudio was shot in the chest by an assailant riding a bicycle at 2830 West 46th Street at about 9:24 p.m. on May 30th in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood. He was pronounced dead at 9:50 p.m. at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
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Late on May 30th, Laird Marble was playing dice with another person when a disagreement began. He was shot several times in his chest in a gangway at his home at 6117 South Bishop Street. He was pronounced dead at 11:48 p.m. at Stroger Hospital. His younger brother, 26-year-old Curtis Marble, was arrested on September 24th by police who found him hiding in an abandoned building on the city's South Side. The allegation is that Curtis got into an altercation with Laird after which he grabbed a handgun and shot and killed his brother.
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Miguel Siguera was found at about 3:44 a.m. on the 31st of May in the alley at 2639 South Ridgeway Avenue in the Little Village neighborhood with multiple gun shot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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On May 31st at about 8:15 a.m. at 6500 South Martin Luther King Drive, a guard with Digby Security intervened in a domestic dispute over custody of Quintin Sharp's 6-year-old son in the gated parking lot of a subsidized housing complex. Quintin was fleeing with the child in a Buick sedan when he drove toward the on-duty guard, attempting to run him over. The guard, a man in his 40s, fired multiple shots at Quintin, the driver, who crashed the vehicle after suffering a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at 5:30 p.m. at Christ Medical Center.
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William Allen was shot in the head and back on June 1st on Chicago's Far South Side. He was found lying on the ground on the sidewalk at about 3:21 a.m. at 200 East 115th Street in the West Pullman neighborhood and was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center and was pronounced dead at 3:45 a.m.
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Walton was shot while sitting in his vehicle in the Little Village neighborhood on the 1st of June. He was found at 10:33 p.m. at 2215 West 28th Street in the driver's seat of his vehicle with gunshot wounds to his head. He was pronounced dead at 11:17 p.m. at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
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On June 2nd, Baggett and a friend were at 4200 West Thomas Street near Piccolo Elementary Specialty School in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood at about 9:30 p.m. when it started to rain. He and his friend scrambled to their bikes to ride home when a black van came up and two people inside began yelling before shots rang out. Jeremy fell off his bike and collapsed on the sidewalk. He was shot once in the head, once in the neck, and three times in the chest. He was dead before the ambulance pulled up. He was a sophomore at Orr Academy High School.
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Nicholas Johnson was shot at least six times and killed early on the 3rd of June on a Gresham neighborhood street on the South Side. He was with a friend at about 12:30 a.m. when he was shot in the street at 7958 South Throop Street. The friend drove Nicholas to Saint Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center where he was pronounced dead at 1:25 a.m. Police said they believe the shooting was gang related because the victim had been affiliated with a gang.
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On June 3rd, Napoleon Gilmore was shot and killed in the Near West Side's University Village/Little Italy neighborhood after what was believed to be a dice game gone awry. Chicago police responded to a call of gunfire on the grounds of a CHA project at 1339 West Washburne Avenue at about 2 p.m. They found Napoleon with a single shot in his chest. He was pronounced dead at 2:36 p.m. at Stroger Hospital.
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Patricia Clark was shot at about 8:30 p.m. on Thursday June 3rd inside a home at 9320 South Ridgeland Avenue. She was playing cards at the residence when an argument flared between her and a female friend. The friend went into a back bedroom, grabbed a gun, and shot Patricia multiple times. She was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. She succumbed to her injuries at 8:41 p.m. on Saturday the 5th of June.
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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.
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Shannon Byars was shot to death in his vehicle early on June 6th in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. At about 12:45 a.m., police responded to shots fired at 5648 South Morgan Avenueand found Shannon wounded. He was shot in the leg and chest and was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1:35 p.m.
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At about 10:48 p.m. on June 6th, officers responded to reports of shots fired at 7928 South Brandon Avenue in the city's South Chicago neighborhood. When they arrived, they found Dwoyne Baker on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to his head, shot to death. He is listed as living in the block where he was gunned down. He was pronounced dead at 11:39 p.m. at South Shore Hospital. A witness told police that Baker was hit by gunfire from a passing vehicle.
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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.
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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.
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On July 8th, police received a call about shots fired at the M and K Grocery at 3649 West Ohio Street at about 6:28 p.m. A man wearing a ski mask and all black clothing walked into the East Garfield Park neighborhood grocery store and shot Jeffery Pinkerton and Patrick Evans to death. Neighbors said the two men who were killed might have been playing pool in the back of the store. Neighborhood residents said that both victims were known drug dealers. Police said both were members of the Conservative Vice Lords.
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On July 8th, police received a call about shots fired at the M and K Grocery at 3649 West Ohio Street at about 6:28 p.m. A man wearing a ski mask and all black clothing walked into the East Garfield Park neighborhood grocery store and shot Jeffery Pinkerton and Patrick Evans to death. Neighbors said the two men who were killed might have been playing pool in the back of the store. Neighborhood residents said that both victims were known drug dealers. Police said both were members of the Conservative Vice Lords.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Brandon Brown died five days after he was shot at a White Castle drive-thru at 1558 West Garfield Boulevard in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. In the early morning hours on June 10th. Brandon was a passenger in a car waiting in the drive-thru line when a suspect, described as in his 20s, walked up to the passenger side where he was sitting and shot him at close range. Brandon got into another vehicle and was taken to Provident Hospital of Cook County. He was later taken to Stroger where he died from his injuries at 1 a.m. on June 15th. Police idenitified Brandon as a gang member.
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On June 14th, Ludjana Dido was going out for a bite to eat with friends when she and her friends got into a dispute with another group of people at 2700 West Roscoe Street. The alcohol-fueled exchange began with shoving and punching before Ludjana, who was standing in the street at the time, was struck by the car just after 1 a.m. She was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where she was declared dead at 2:26 a.m. Ludjana was 5½ months pregnant.
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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.
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Jaime Sanchez-Negrete was killed on June 12th in what is being called assault. He was found in the backyard of 5827 South California Avenuein Chicago's Gage Park neighborhood. Police responded to a report of a man down with blood near his head. He had a gunshot wound behind his left ear.
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In the wee hours of the morning on June 13th, Kevin Jones was shot in the back and killed after a fight broke out at a graduation party at an apartment in the building at 7803 South Carpenter Street in the South Side Gresham neighborhood. Kevin was at the party in a first-floor apartment when the fight broke out. Witnesses say the shooting began inside after an altercation at the party between the party's host and at least three other men who he accused of breaking a window in his home. Three male suspects left the party and went outside. One pulled out a handgun and fired one more shot into the apartment. A bullet went through the window and struck the Kevin in the back. Police responded to reports of shots fired at about 2:15 a.m. He was pronounced dead at 2:56 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
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Ernest Sanford was found fatally shot on June 13th in front of 7031 South Martin Luther King Drive in the South Side's Park Manor neighborhood at about 3:20 a.m. Police found him dead on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound.
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Police responded to a call of a person shot at 603 North Homan Avenueon the West Side in the city's East Garfield Park neighborhood shortly after 11 p.m. on June 13th and found Michael Stanciel on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 11:51 p.m.
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Jose Garcia, who has since been charged with first degree murder, and Jorge Luis Flores were in a fight before Garcia allegedly returned to the scene with a handgun and shot Jorge in the right shoulder at 5:48 a.m. on the morning of June 14th at 2400 South Central Park Avenue in the Little Village community. Jorge was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital at 12:33 p.m.
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On June 15th at 5:40 p.m., Cojuan Harper was standing outside the Citgo gas station at 2941 East 83rd Street in the South Chicago neighborhood when two people wearing black hooded sweatshirts approached, and at least one opened fire wounding him in the chest, arm and back. The incident happened at about 5:40 p.m. He was pronounced dead at 6:28 p.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He was gang-affiliated.
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Gates was shot in the head on the 3656 West Grand Avenue. The shooting happened about 7:15 p.m. when a van drove up and people inside began shooting in his direction. He was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital.
At about 11:15 p.m. on June 15th, officers responded to a call of an unresponsive man lying on the street at 4340 West 87th Street in the Scottsdale neighborhood on Chicago's Southwest Side. When they arrived police discovered Octavio Pena with a gunshot wound to his face. He was pronounced dead at 12:02 a.m.
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On June 17th, a local rapper and another man were accused of beating 46-year-old Larry Brown to death in their Garfield Park neighborhood outside his home at 655 North Spaulding Avenue, after a minor traffic collision left a scratch on the rapper’s car. This may not have showed up on the homicide report until later because Brown went into a coma before he eventually died of the injuries he sustained on July 7th.
Michelle Maldonado was shot to death in what Chicago police said may have been a gang-related attack in the Little Village neighborhood on June 17th. She was shot while on the street 3909 West 32nd Street just after 8:35 a.m. Witnesses told police that the attack began when a man in his late teens or early 20s who got out of a beige car that had three other young men in it. The man walked behind Michelle and shot her several times, causing her to fall to the ground. The man got back into the car and drove away, heading south through an alley. Police have not been able to confirm that Michelle herself was a gang member, but investigators believe she spent time with members of a local gang and was shot by rival gang members.
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Terrance Jackson was on the street at 4458 West Wilcox Street in the West Garfield Park neighborhood at about 1:10 a.m. when two male assailants approached and fired shots, striking him in the chest. He was taken in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:46 a.m.
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27-year-old Carl Anderson was sitting in his car at 3359 West Iowa Street in Humbolt Park at about 9 p.m. on June 18 when someone came up and shot him in the chest. Anderson died months after he was shot from the injuries he sustained.
Pierre York was walking with a friend in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side at about 9:20 p.m. Friday June 18th when a third person approached and began to argue with him. The assailant pulled out a gun and shot him in the head. Pierre's friend called police after the shooting. The police found Pierre on the sidewalk at 1841 West 87th Street. He was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 10:07 p.m. on June 20th.
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Waseen, Barry and Leon Smith were killed in what appeared to be a gang-related shooting early on the morning of June 19th in the Little Village neighborhood. The shooting happened near the residence of Waseem and Barry Smith at 2243 South Springfield Avenue. At about 3:00 a.m., Ogden District officers heard gunshots in the area, toured it, and found the three men. One of the victims was found shot in the driver's seat of a vehicle, while a second victim was found shot in the driver's seat of another. A third victim was found wounded lying on the ground. Waseen was dead on the scene. Barry and Leon were pronounced dead at Mt. Sinai Hospital. All three of the men had extensive criminal records, mostly convictions on felony drug charges.
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Waseen, Barry and Leon Smith were killed in what appeared to be a gang-related shooting early on the morning of June 19th in the Little Village neighborhood. The shooting happened near the residence of Waseem and Barry Smith at 2243 South Springfield Avenue. At about 3:00 a.m., Ogden District officers heard gunshots in the area, toured it, and found the three men. One of the victims was found shot in the driver's seat of a vehicle, while a second victim was found shot in the driver's seat of another. A third victim was found wounded lying on the ground. Waseen was dead on the scene. Barry and Leon were pronounced dead at Mt. Sinai Hospital. All three of the men had extensive criminal records, mostly convictions on felony drug charges.
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Waseen, Barry and Leon Smith were killed in what appeared to be a gang-related shooting early on the morning of June 19th in the Little Village neighborhood. The shooting happened near the residence of Waseem and Barry Smith at 2243 South Springfield Avenue. At about 3:00 a.m., Ogden District officers heard gunshots in the area, toured it, and found the three men. One of the victims was found shot in the driver's seat of a vehicle, while a second victim was found shot in the driver's seat of another. A third victim was found wounded lying on the ground. Waseen was dead on the scene. Barry and Leon were pronounced dead at Mt. Sinai Hospital. All three of the men had extensive criminal records, mostly convictions on felony drug charges.
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On June 19th, an argument over a female led to the shooting of three men on the Far South Side and the death of Durwin Hackman. The incident happened at 11:19 p.m. on the sidewalk at 734 West 111th Street in the Roseland neighborhood. The three victims - Durwin, who was shot in the back, a 19-year-old who was shot in the stomach, and a 21-year-old who was shot in his left arm - got into the argument with several other men, who began shooting and then fled the scene. The three victims were all transported to Advocate Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn. Durwin, was transported in serious-to-critical condition. He was pronounced dead at 12:09 a.m. At the time of his death, Durwin, who has had arrests on misdemeanor charges in the past, was facing a misdemeanor marijuana-posession case in Chicago that was due in court the following week.
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Larry Johnson was shot in his abdomen and left arm at about 1:52 a.m. on June 21st in the alley at 6400 South Ingleside Avenue in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the city's South Side. He was pronounced dead at 3:36 a.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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Darryl Dunn was found slain on the sidewalk at about 2:02 a.m. on June 21st with a gunshot wound to his head in front of the residence at 7220 South Marshfield Avenue in the West Englewood neighborhood.
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A passing motorist found 28-year-old transgender woman, Sandy Woulard (born Credale) laying in the street near a church located at 7500 South Halsted Street in Hamilton Park on Monday, June 21. Sandy was shot in the chest ay 2:45 a.m. and was pronounced dead an hour later at Stroger Hospital.
Divai Serna was found dead and another woman was found injured in the front yard of 3017 North Kolmar Avenue on June 21st in the Belmont Gardens neighborhood. Police found Divai and the woman at about 8 p.m. Both were at a gathering at that address when someone entered the yard and opened fire.
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Olayinka Ibitoye and Deante Coleman, who were slain and left along some South Side railroad tracks, might have been attacked after a party on Sunday, June 20th that both of the boys attended. The naked bodies of the boys were found about 9 a.m. on Monday the 21st at approximately 9041 South Holland Road in the West Chatham neighborhood. Both boys had been shot. The two were pronounced dead at the scene at 9:50 a.m.
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Olayinka Ibitoye and Deante Coleman, who were slain and left along some South Side railroad tracks, might have been attacked after a party on Sunday, June 20th that both of the boys attended. The naked bodies of the boys were found about 9 a.m. on Monday the 21st at approximately 9041 South Holland Road in the West Chatham neighborhood. Both boys had been shot. The two were pronounced dead at the scene at 9:50 a.m.
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On June 22nd at about 10:45 a.m., the body of DuJuan Johnson was found in a gangway beside a building at 6818 South Morgan Street in the South Side's Englewood neighborhood. He was found with a gunshot wound to the head and a handgun in his hand.
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James Taylor died late on June 24th after police discovered him at about 9:30 p.m on the sidewalk at 1717 West 51st Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood with stab wounds to his neck. He was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:41 p.m.
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Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation workers found the partially clothed body of a Furda West in the alley behind 4314 West Carroll Avenue in West Garfield Park at about 8:15 a.m. on June 25th. She had been strangled and was declared dead an the scene.
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On June 26th, Jamar Harris was taken unresponsive to the the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital at about 1:45 a.m. with bruising to his body, including on his stomach. He was being watched by his mother's boyfriend, who told police the boy had fallen down the stairs. He was pronounced dead at the hospital at 2:07 a.m. The boy lived at 7135 South Yates Boulevard on Chicago's South Side. An autopsy showed that Jamar died of blunt force trauma and was a victim of child abuse. His death was ruled a homicide.
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Richard McGill was killed and another man was wounded in a drive-by shooting in the South Chicago neighborhood at about 2:20 a.m. on June 26th. The two men were sitting on a porch at 8200 South Muskegon Avenue when a gunman rode up in what was believed to be a green Chevrolet Monte Carlo. The gunman then exited the car and fired shots at the men, striking them both in the legs. The gunman then got back into the vehicle and fled south from the scene. Richard was pronounced dead at 3:16 a.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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On June 26th at about 4:00 a.m. in the Englewood neighborhood, 22-year-old Devonte Patterson and 30-year-old Andre Tucker were both shot at 6252 South Ashland. Patterson suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his chest and died from the attack.
At about 4 a.m. on June 26th, police responded to a report of gunfire to find Ray Ressler fatally shot and another critically wounded on the Near West Side at 2129 South Wood Street. The victims were occupants of a vehicle that was involved in a minor traffic crash. They exited the vehicle and were approached by a person who displayed a handgun and fired in their direction. Both victims were shot multiple times.
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At 12:06 a.m. on Sunday June 27th, Yusuf Yusuf was standing in the street at 5101 South Sacramento Avenue in the Southwest Side's Gage Park neighborhood when a male suspect opened fire from a vehicle, striking the him in the back. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 12:49 a.m.
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Alan Penny was doused in gasoline and lit on fire in his home on July 2, allegedly by his girlfriend, after the two had an argument. He succumbed to his injuries on July 24th after suffering burns over sixty-five percent of his body. He was pronounced dead at 5:09 p.m. at Stroger Hospital. His girlfriend, Sherry Ann Hartison, was arrested shortly after the incident at the apartment that they shared at 3125 West Washington Boulevard.
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Walter Lampeley was shot and killed on the sidewalk outside his home at 2429 West Taylor Street in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood late on the night of July 2nd. At about 11:54 p.m., he was fighting another person when a vehicle pulled up, suspects exited, and shots were fired at him. He suffered a gunshot wound to his neck and was pronounced dead at 12:56 a.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital.
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At 1:43 a.m. on July 3rd, Xiaohong Song got off the bus following a trip to a casino boat and was approached by two male suspects in the Chinatown neighborhood. They grabbed him from behind in an attempt to rob him causing him to fall and hit his head on the sidewalk in front of 230 West 23rd Street. An autopsy showed that he was strangled death.
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It was about 1:00 a.m. on the 4th of July when Paul Garrette was discovered in the backyard of 8419 South Cregier Avenue in the Stony Island Park neighborhood with a gunshot wound. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, but succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead at 1:59 a.m.
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Carl Roberson was on the sidewalk when he was shot in the abdomen on July 4th by a man who exited a white vehicle at about 7:57 a.m. at 5433 West Chicago Avenue in the Austin neighborhood. He was pronounced dead at 10:32 a.m. at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
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Deandre Murphy was fatally shot on the 4th of July in the 1600 block of West 56th Street in the South Side's West Englewood neighborhood just after 3:45 p.m. Two others were also seriously wounded in this shooting. The victims were shot while in a moving car that came to rest at 1601 West 59th Street. Deandre was dead at the scene.
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Police found Jerry Seals with a gunshot wound to his head at about 10:25 p.m. on July 4th on the sidewalk at 6228 South Laflin Street in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. He was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 11:07 p.m.
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At about 1 a.m. on July 5th, police responded 1657 West 64th Street in Englewood and found two men shot. Both men were in a vehicle when someone began firing in their direction. Andrew was struck in the neck and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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At 5:06 a.m. on the 5th of July, DeShawn McNeil was found dead after being shot in the chest in the alley behind 7922 South Ingleside Avenue in the East Chatham neighborhood.
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Police responded to 7034 South Hermitage Avenue about 9:04 p.m. on July 5th where they found the Shaudee Nance on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound. He was was pronounced dead at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
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At midnight on July 6th, Marshall Reed and another man were shot while they were sitting in their vehicle in front of 11647 South Racine Avenue. Someone in a dark Cadillac pulled up, shot at them, and fled. Both men were taken to Advocate Christ. Marshal was pronounced dead at 2:31 a.m.
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Marquita Jamieson was stabbed to death during a knife fight with another female in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the Far South Side on July 6th. She was stabbed in the neck at 7:39 p.m. by a female that she knew outside her home at 11018 South Loomis Street. Police said the two teens were having a verbal altercation that escalated over a fight that their relatives were having over a boy. Marquita was reportedly walking away when she was grabbed and stabbed by the offender, who is also 17. She was pronounced dead at 8:28 p.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
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On the 7th of July, Michael Wade was shot dead at about 12:45 a.m. while in his vehicle at 11143 South Normal Avenue. Witnesses told police they heard shots and soon after saw the Michael's vehicle crash. He suffered a gunshot wound to the left thigh and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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At about 1:26 a.m. on July July 7th, officers responded to the scene at 4531 North Clarendon Avenue in the Uptown neighborhood on Chicago's North Side and found Detrick Garrett shot several times. He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 2:04 a.m.
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Officer Thor Soderberg was shot and killed at 3:48 p.m. on July 7th in a parking lot filled with police cars, at 6142 South Racine Avenue, which is across the street from the old Englewood 7th District police station now used by the department's Targeted Response Unit. He was returning to his car after his tour of duty when he was attacked from behind and killed with his own gun. The offender shot him multiple times, wounding him in his neck and chest. Officer Soderberg died at the scene and his body was taken to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
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Police responded to 4257 West Cermak Road in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side at about 11:20 pm on July 7th, where they found two people shot. One of the victims, Lajuan Webb, was shot in the side and was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital.
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Jamonie Richards was shot in the street at 744 East Pershing Road in the Oakland neighborhood on Chicago's South Side at about 12:07 a.m. on July 8th. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Eric Hughs was shot multiple times at a gas station at 1053 West 103rd Street just before 11:00 pm on July 9th in the Washington Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side. He was shot through his thigh while he was inside a vehicle. He was pronounced dead at 11:52 p.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center.
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On July 10th at about 8 p.m., George Esco was victim of battery on the sidewalk at 5345 West North Avenue. He was declared dead seven weeks later on August 28th at 12:30 a.m. at Holy Cross Hospital. Following an autopsy, the medical examiner's office determined his death was a homicide, and that he died of head injuries from blunt head trauma in an assault.
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At 10:38 p.m. on Saturday July 10th, police found Kemanuel Montgomery stabbed on the the sidewalk in front of 7847 South Essex Avenue in the South Side's South Shore neighborhood. He was stabbed in the chest by a homeless man with who allegedly had an argument with a member of his family. He was pronounced dead at 11:23 p.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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The death of Raymon Sanchez, whose body found after firefighters extinguished a garage fire in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, has been ruled a homicide. Firefighters arrived at 6155 South Richmond Street at about 6:25 a.m. on July 23rd and found the garage engulfed in flames. Raymon's death was caused by blunt head trauma in an assault that resulted before the fire.
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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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At 1:54 a.m. on July 24th, Keith King was found on the sidewalk at 8720 South Emerald Avenue in the Far South Side’s Gresham neighborhood with a gunshot wound to his head. He was pronounced dead at 2:31 a.m. at Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers.
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Aaron Carter died from his injuries after a shooting on July 28th at 4518 North Magnolia Avenue in the North Side's Uptown neighborhood. He and a friend were involved in an argument with other men who fired at them from a vehicle. Police said Aaron was shot in the chest at about 4:40 p.m. He was pronounced dead at 1:38 a.m. on July 29th at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
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Robert Freeman died on July 28th after being shot multiple times while riding his bicycle in the street in the West Pullman neighborhood. The boy at 11551 South Perry Avenue when someone fired shots from a gangway at about 8:18 p.m. A neighbor said he saw a masked gunman stand over Robert and continue firing into the boy's body. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in critical condition but was pronounced dead at 10:09 p.m.
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Louis Wilson was shot in the armpit and killed in an alley at 11717 South Peoria Avenue just after 4 p.m. on July 30th in the West Pullman neighborhood. After being shot, he walked out of the alley toward the street, where he collapsed. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center and pronounced dead at 4:44 p.m.
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On July 30th at about 4:45 p.m., police responded to calls of a person with head injuries down in the alley behind 4654 West Superior Street in the West Garfield Park neighborhood. They found Jeremy Johnson dead. He had been shot multiple times and was dead on the scene.
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At about 11:55 p.m. on July 30th, two men were shot, one fatally, at 4928 West School Street. They were sitting on a porch 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. Miguel Vasquez, a resident of the School Street address, was pronounced dead at 12:53 a.m. at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. He suffered a gunshot wound to his abdomen.
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Aniya Crockett, of 6816 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 on July 31st.
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Michael Chatman and Reginald Riley were killed and two others wounded early on the morning of August 1st 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 8434 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. Michael was shot in the neck and later pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center. Reginald was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at Norwegian-American Hospital. The two others that were wounded were in stable condition.
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Michael Chatman and Reginald Riley were killed and two others wounded early on the morning of August 1st 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 8434 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. Michael was shot in the neck and later pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center. Reginald was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at Norwegian-American Hospital. The two others that were wounded were in stable condition.
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On August 1st, police were called to 12427 South Eggleston Avenue in the Far South Side's West Pullman neighborhood at about 12:30 p.m. where Samuel Coleman had been shot in the neck and killed.
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Andre Wiliams was found shot to death late in the afternoon on August 2nd in the Englewood neighborhood on the city's South Side. Police were notified just before 6 p.m. that he had been discovered under a viaduct at 545 West 70th Street. Neighbors near the shooting scene said they heard as many as 19 gunshots. Several men, including Andre, were hanging out under a viaduct near the intersection trying to take refuge from the heat when a vehicle rolled up and someone inside it opened fire. Andre was the only person struck by gunfire. He suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was taken to St. Bernard Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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James Evans was found stabbed to death this morning inside a residence of at 7032 South Hermitage Avenue in the South Side's West Englewood neighborhood. The body was found about 11 a.m. A homicide investigation was under way since his body was found with multiple stab wounds.
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Police responded to 7417 South Kingston Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood a little after 5 p.m. on the afternoon of August 4th where they found Steven Bell shot in the head. He was pronounced dead from his injuries the following day at 5:52 p.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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At about 6:40 p.m. on August 5th, Dionte Young was walking in front of 8829 South Hermitage Avenue on the South Side, just a few houses down from where he lived, when he was approached from behind by an unknown gunman and shot in the back of the neck. He suffered a gunshot wound to his head and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 9:01 p.m.
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At 12:05 a.m. on August 6th, Tufan Muhammed was fatally shot in the street while running from his attacker at 7830 South Cornell Avenue on the Far South Side. He was chased in an alley by another man believed to be 20 to 25 years old. The suspect fled in a vehicle south on Cornell in what may have been a white Chevrolet Lumis. Tufan suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body. He was pronounced dead at 1:10 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
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At 5:37 p.m. on August 6th, police responded to a person shot at 1345 North Pulaski Road in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Two people had been arguing in a parking lot at a car wash at that location about a half hour earlier when one left and returned with a gun. Cesar Rosales, who was fatally shot was an employee at the car wash. He was shot in the chest and taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where he later died.
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At about 12:47 a.m. on August 7th, Marshall Bennett was walking on the street at 5546 South Union Avenue in the South Side's Englewood neighborhood when he was shot multiple times. He was pronounced dead at 1:39 a.m. at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital.
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David Buckner was killed and three other victims were wounded in a shooting in Ada Park at 1331 West 112th Place on the Far South Side on August 7th. At about 7:30 p.m., two rival gangs began firing at each other. David, who got caught in the crossfire, was fatally shot in his back. He was dead on the scene. Additionally, a 37-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to his leg, a 19-year-old man got a graze wound to his neck and a 22-year-old woman was shot in her thigh. They were taken to local hospitals and were all treated and released.
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Troy Brown was killed and another girl was wounded in a shooting on August 8th at 4923 West Iowa Street in the West Side's Austin community. The shooting happened about 2 p.m. He was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital.
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James Gardner, who was shot in the early morning of August 9th in the city's Austin neighborhood on the West Side, died at 6:21 p.m. the same day at Stroger Hospital. He and another man were shot about 12:22 a.m. at 522 North Leamington Avenue. The two were inside a vehicle when two or possibly three suspects got out of another vehicle and approached the men. At least one of the suspects fired several shots in their direction. The victims tried to drive away after they were shot but their car crashed into a parked car. The suspects then fled.
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On August 9th, Tito Lindsey was shot and killed on the sidewalk near his home in the Far South Side's Fernwood neighborhood. He was shot in the back about 7:10 a.m. at 10200 South Wentworth Avenue and was pronounced dead at 7:40 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
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On August 9th, Jonathan Jackson and his twin brother had just been given their baths and were playing in their room, about to settle down for the night before their first day in kindergarten when a shot rang out. Jonathan's brother ran from the room in his pajamas, followed by Jonathan, who was crawling and bleeding from his abdomen. He was rushed by ambulance from his two-flat at 706 South California Avenueto Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:07 p.m. from a gunshot wound. The boys, who were nearly identical and inseparable, had been playing when they found the gun. The Cook County medical examiner's office ruled the death a homicide, meaning that Jonathan's death was caused by someone besides himself. The ruling is not an indication of criminality or intent.
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Parnell Shumate was shot and killed at about 4:40 p.m. on August 10th in a parking lot in the alley behind 1209 South Pulaski Road in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at 5:08 p.m. at Stroger Hospital.
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Tanaja Stokes and her cousin were palying jump rope on August 10th when two people rode up on bikes and opened fire in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side. Tanaja was shot in the head and died within an hour. The girls' grandfather, Robert Wise, said he was in front of the family home at 10716 South Indiana Avenue when he saw two guys roll up on bicycles at about 8 p.m. Wise said he and a second cousin of the girls ran to protect them, but it was too late. Officials are investigating whether a fight about 20 minutes earlier might have led to the shooting. The fight involved three teens -- two girls and a boy. A group of about 20 teens surrounded the fighting youths, screaming, holding back the boys, calling each other names. Once the teens stopped fighting, six girls including the one who fought left the scene in a white four-door car. About 10 minutes later, six gunshots rang out to the south on Indiana.
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Demetrius Pitts was shot in the chest at about 9:23 p.m. on August 10th at 305 South Kildare Avenue. He was pronounced dead at 11:50 p.m. at Stroger Hospital.
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A shooting in the West Side's East Garfield Park neighborhood on August 12th left Isaac Davis III dead. Police responded to shots fired at about 1:05 p.m. at 735 North Monticello Avenue. They found Isaac shot in the head on the street. He was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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At about 3:10 p.m. on August 12th, Krystal Rodney and a man were fighting at her grandmother's house at 7019 South Justine Street in the Englewood neighborhood. The incident is thought to have been a domestic-related argument. The man went to a vehicle, got a handgun and shot her in the neck. He then fled in the vehicle. Police were able to stop the gunman through a vehicle description. Krystal was pronounced dead at 3:31 p.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
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The Cook County medical examiner's office determined that the deaths of the twin Roberson girls were homicides. Kimora and Kimari died of "hyperthermia, environmental exposure and failure to thrive due to maternal neglect." Officials said they each weighed just 13 pounds. They were found unresponsive on the evening of August 12th in their home at 10649 South Wentworth Avenue. The police were called about 5:50 p.m. and they summoned paramedics. The children were taken to Roseland Community Hospital, where they were pronounced dead at 6:30 p.m.
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The Cook County medical examiner's office determined that the deaths of the twin Roberson girls were homicides. Kimora and Kimari died of "hyperthermia, environmental exposure and failure to thrive due to maternal neglect." Officials said they each weighed just 13 pounds. They were found unresponsive on the evening of August 12th in their home at 10649 South Wentworth Avenue. The police were called about 5:50 p.m. and they summoned paramedics. The children were taken to Roseland Community Hospital, where they were pronounced dead at 6:30 p.m.
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At 8:51 p.m. on August 12th, Phillip Baldwin was found fatally beaten in the trunk of a vehicle in the alley at 11115 South Edbrooke Avenue in the Far South Side's Roseland neighborhood with "blunt trauma to the body and head." The body was found in the trunk of a car. An autopsy revealed that he died of multiple gunshot wounds.
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At about 4:38 a.m. on August 13th, D'Angelo Jackson was shot multiple times and killed on the sidewalk in front of 917 East 79th Street in the South Side's Grand Crossing neighborhood. He was declared dead at 5:20 a.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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An attacker was shooting at a group of teens gathered at 2020 East 71st Street in the South Shore neighborhood when Mobolaji Osho walked out of a sandwich shop and was shot in the torso just after 2 p.m. on August 13th. He was declared dead from gunshot wounds at Northwestern Memorial Hospital at 2:44 p.m.
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At about 3 a.m. on August 14th, Anthony Martinez got into a dispute with the driver of a black Honda car at the CITGO gas station at 5901 South California Avenue in the Southwest Side's Gage Park neighborhood. The two traded gang slogans and accusations before the driver ran over the other man. He was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital just after 5:33 a.m.
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At about 12:08 a.m. on August 15th, officers responded to a man shot at 6058 South Cottage Grove Avenue in the South Side's West Woodlawn neighborhood. They found shell casings on the sidewalk and Damien Turner shot in the back. He was pronounced dead at 1:23 a.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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Karen Salino went to her boyfriend, William Caponegri's apartment at 6726 North Glenwood Avenue late on Saturday August 15th, where the two got into an argument. Police responded about 12:30 a.m. Sunday to Caponegri's apartment after his roommate, who had returned home from watching a game, called police after finding Karen unresponsive. Police said she was found on a bed with contusions and scratches around her neck and a puncture wound to the arm. She was dead on the scene.
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Officers were patrolling the area about 9:10 p.m. on August 15th when they heard gunfire. Soon after, police found Johnny Taylor shot on the sidewalk at 9046 South Commercial Avenue in the city's South Chicago neighborhood. He was pronounced dead at 10:08 p.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. A witness at the scene told police an unknown suspect, between the ages of 16 and 20, exited a dark-colored vehicle and shot Johnny. The gunman then jumped back into the vehicle and fled.
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Alexander Mercado, another man, and a woman were all sitting in a parked car at 4130 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. Alexander was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at 2:33 a.m.
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Brian Daniel was shot while he was standing on the sidewalk at 5101 West Monroe Street in the West Side's Austin neighborhood on August 16th. The shooting happened at about 4:45 p.m. Brian was playing cards when three male assailants approached and opened fire. Two other suspects fired shots at a group across the street from where Brian was standing, striking the him while he tired to run from the scene. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at 8:30 p.m. at Stroger Hospital. Police believe the shooting was gang-related.
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At about 9:00 p.m. on August 16th, Domingo Hernandez and a 17-year-old boy were shot at while they were loading furniture into a truck in the alley behind 4903 West Walton Street in the West Side's Austin neighborhood. Domingo was shot in the head and was pronounced dead four days later at Stroger Hospital.
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Angel Rebolledo died and two others were wounded on August 17th in a shooting in the city's Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Shortly after midnight, officers responded to 2315 North Keeler Avenueand found three people with gunshot wounds. Reports said the victims were standing outside on the street when they were fired on. Angel was shot and was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 1:02 a.m.
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Anthony Clemons was shot and killed on the morning of August 17th in the West Side's Lawndale neighborhood. The shooting happened about 8:25 a.m. at 4150 West Grenshaw Street. He was pronounced dead at 8:47 a.m. at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
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Marshalla Johnson was fatally shot in the head at her Near West Side residence in a CHA complex at 1000 West 14th Street on August 18th. She was found at about 11:15 a.m. Police took her husband into custody in connection with the slaying.
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Terrance Cooper had come out of a store with a friend in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, when an assailant approached and shot him multiple times. Officers found him on the street at 3300 West 63rd Street at about 10:30 p.m. on August 18th. He was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn at 11:55 p.m.
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Olutosin Bajomo was shot in the head and killed near his home in the Edgewater neighborhood on the North Side on August 19th. Police and paramedics responded about 2:22 a.m. to the 1000 West Ardmore Avenue and found Olutosin at the mouth of the alley on the north side of Ardmore Avenue. Surveillance video from the area shows a man got out of a vehicle parked in the alley and approached Olutosin as he was walking east along Ardmore toward Sheridan Road. The man then shot him several times. He was pronounced dead at 2:57 a.m. at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston.
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At about 3:45 a.m. on August 19th, a dark-colored sport utility vehicle drove past Jaime Ramirez. Someone from inside the vehicle shouted gang slogans and a gunman began shooting from inside. Jaime was hit multiple times. He was found several doors away from his home in the street at 9129 South Burley Avenue in the South Chicago neighborhood. He was pronounced dead at 4:45 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center.
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At about 10:00 p.m. on August 19th, Schirron Hoskins was killed and two others were wounded in a drive-by shooting at 1650 West 62nd Street. Shots were fired from a vehicle traveling eastbound on South Paulina Street in the West Englewood neighborhood. Schirron was shot in the head and was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 10:52 p.m.
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Roger Kizer was killed in a drive-by shooting that happened at about 11:30 p.m. on August 19th at 7450 South Kenwood Avenue in the Grand Crossing neighborhood. He was slain a house down from where he lived and was dead at the scene.
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On August 20th at around 1 a.m., masked men forced their way into Anthony Anglin's home at 10817 South Sangamon Street in the Morgan Park neighborhood. They ransacked the house and shot Anthony in the chest. Anthony's son told police that he, a woman and his father were all at home when the two armed masked men came into the house.
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At about 1:35 a.m. on August 21st, police responded to a man shot at 4300 South Federal Street on Chicago's South Side. They found Bennie Madison shot. He was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital, but was pronounced dead at 2:21 a.m.
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At about 2:10 a.m. on August 21st, police responded 2839 West Pershing Road in the Brighton Park neighborhood and found two people shot. One of the men, Julio Castrumita was shot in the head. He was pronounced dead at 4:19 a.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital.
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At about 1:55 a.m. on August 22nd, police responded to a battery in progress and found Donzel Swanigan dead in a vacant lot near a large house party at 349 South Kostner Avenue in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side. He was fatally shot in the neck.
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Ronnie Peterson was found shot in the head in his car in the late afternoon on Sunday August 22nd at 5094 West Monroe Street in the Austin neighborhood. Reports say that someone inside a vehicle that pulled up next to his car fired several shots at him. He was pronounced dead at Mt. Sinai Hospital at 5:55 p.m the next day.
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Kirk McCullough, was found shot to death on August 23rd in West Garfield Park near The Taste Bud Banquet Hall and Restaurant where he was a bouncer. He was found sitting in his car at 4422 West Madison Street 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.
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Linton Goldsmith was driving a van at about 1:00 a.m. on August 24th when he was shot in the face and killed. Reports say 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. Linton was found unresponsive in the vehicle at 8020 South Jeffery Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.
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Tyrone Clark was shot and killed early on the morning of August 24th near his residence in the South Side's Back of the Yards neighborhood. The shooting happened about 4:40 a.m. at 1441 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.
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Debra Haywood-Hughes was found stabbed to death on the morning of August 25th at 3:41 a.m. inside her residence at 7041 South Martin Luther King Drive on the South Side in the city's Park Manor neighborhood. Police said the stabbing was domestically related.
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On Wednesday, August 25th at about 4:40 p.m. police responded to 5702 South Sawyer Avenue in the Gage Park neighborhood, where they found Luis Perez with a gunshot wound to his right cheek. Reports indicate that Luis was standing on the street when a group approached in a car, shouted gang slogans and shot him. Luis had been taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center, but was pronounced dead on Friday at 4:10 a.m.
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At about 11:30 p.m. on August 25th, police officers responded to a call of a large crowd fighting at 6358 South Martin Luther King Drive in the Woodlawn neighborhood. When the crowd was cleared, Laverick Marshall was found shot in the back. He was taken to the hospital where he later died.
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At about 12:10 a.m. on August 28th, police responded to a call for a man with a gunshot wound to his chest at the man's home at 7023 West Grand Avenue in the Northwest Side Montclare neighborhood. Reports say that three males kicked in a side door to his house and then fired shots, hitting Edward Ramos in the chest. Edward was pronounced dead at 5:36 a.m. at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital.
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An autopsy showed that Maria Martinez, whose body was found burned in a West Side alley on Saturday morning August 28th, was beaten to death. Officials determined that she had been assaulted and ruled her death a homicide due to evidence of blunt head trauma. Maria's body was found when officers were called to 2847 West Washington Avenueat about 4:30 a.m. After being beaten, she was doused with a flammable substance and ignited.
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At about 6:30 p.m. on August 28th, Wesley Taylor and another man were at a block party in the West Garfield Park neighborhood when they were followed by several people into an alley and got into a fight. Wesley was found lying in the alley at 4411 West Wilcox Street with several gun shot wound. He was pronounced dead at the emergency room at Mount Sinai Hospital.
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Darrell McKinney was on a sidewalk at 956 North Harding Avenue at about 8:40 p.m. at a block party in the Humboldt Park neighborhood when he was hit by crossfire when suspect opened fire on another man during a foot chase. Darrell died a short time later. Police believe that Darrell was not the intended target.
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On August 28th at about 11:45 p.m. in Gage Park, Adolfo Guijardo-Soria, was standing outside during a block party at 5801 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.
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On August 29th, David Johnson was found dead sitting in a vehicle with a gunshot wound to his head. The slaying happened shortly after 7 p.m. at 1542 West 51st Street in the city's Back of the Yards neighborhood. David was parked in a vehicle when someone approached, pulled out a gun and shot him. He was pronounced dead at 7:37 p.m. at Stroger Hospital.
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Police and paramedics responded shortly after 1:30 a.m. on August 31st to 1101 West Madison Street and found Paul Harris lying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to his torso. Police said Paul was shot across the street from a bar following an argument with an unknown assailant who took out a gun and shot him. They say that Paul had not been in the bar prior to the shooting. He was pronounced dead at 2:13 a.m. at Stroger Hospital.
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On the night of August 31st, Anthony Carter was standing outside his West Garfield Park home at 4043 West Jackson Boulevard, 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. Anthony was shot multiple times in the back. When police officers arrived at the scene they found him unresponsive.
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Chicago police and paramedics responded about at 10 p.m. on Tuesday September 1st 6719 South Tripp Avenue where Jovanni Gudino was shot in the head in a vehicle outside his home in the West Lawn neighborhood. Jovanni 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. the following day at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
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Marcus Marshall and Shawntell Harris were killed when two men entered a South Side liquor store at 5701 South State Street and opened fire. Marcus was shot in the head and chest about 12:40 a.m. Shawntell was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound to his head and succumbed to his injuries two days later.
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Marcus Marshall and Shawntell Harris were killed when two men entered a South Side liquor store at 5701 South State Street and opened fire. Marcus was shot in the head and chest about 12:40 a.m. Shawntell was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound to his head and succumbed to his injuries two days later.
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The shooting that killed Jeremy Brooks happened about 2:15 p.m. on September 2nd in an alley at 743 East 78th Street in the Chatham neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. He shot several times by one of two people who confronted him. After he was shot, he 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 Jeremy was the younger brother of a top member of the Gangster Disciples and police feared a retaliation shooting.
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Johnnie Dyer was standing outside 3017 West 5th Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood shortly before midnight on September 1st when someone approached and shot him several times. He was pronounced dead at 12:38 a.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital.
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At about 8:30 p.m. on September 2nd, four men were found shot to death in the garage of 6128 South Kildare Avenue in Chicago's West Lawn neighborhood. They were found face down on the garage floor with their hands, feet and mouths bound with duct tape. All of them appeared to have been shot in the head. "Multiple weapons" were found at the scene. The motive for the slayings appear to be drug related.
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At about 8:30 p.m. on September 2nd, four men were found shot to death in the garage of 6128 South Kildare Avenue in Chicago's West Lawn neighborhood. They were found face down on the garage floor with their hands, feet and mouths bound with duct tape. All of them appeared to have been shot in the head. "Multiple weapons" were found at the scene. The motive for the slayings appear to be drug related.
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At about 8:30 p.m. on September 2nd, four men were found shot to death in the garage of 6128 South Kildare Avenue in Chicago's West Lawn neighborhood. They were found face down on the garage floor with their hands, feet and mouths bound with duct tape. All of them appeared to have been shot in the head. "Multiple weapons" were found at the scene. The motive for the slayings appear to be drug related.
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At about 8:30 p.m. on September 2nd, four men were found shot to death in the garage of 6128 South Kildare Avenue in Chicago's West Lawn neighborhood. They were found face down on the garage floor with their hands, feet and mouths bound with duct tape. All of them appeared to have been shot in the head. "Multiple weapons" were found at the scene. The motive for the slayings appear to be drug related.
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Theresa Russell was found shot to death in the Englewood neighborhood on September 4th. Police officers found her at 6435 South Morgan Street about 2:50 a.m. with a gunshot wound to the back.
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Jennifer Alvarado was shot and killed while in a vehicle in the Southwest Side's Little Village neighborhood. Jennifer was a passenger in the front seat of the vehicle as it was headed west on West 24th Street about 5:30 p.m. on September 6th when another vehicle pulled up at about 2718 West 24th Street and fired shots.
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