Martarvian Emery was killed and another person was wounded in an early Saturday shooting in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.

Emery, 21, was inside the kitchen area of a home in the 5400 block of South Winchester Avenue when somebody opened fire from outside, authorities said.

Emery, of an unidentified home address, was struck in the chest and died at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

A 19-year-old was also inside the home was shot in the leg and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, police added.

Nobody has been charged in the murder.

Area Central detectives are investigating.

-- Sun-Times Media Wire

Jaquez Williams was fatally shot early Saturday in the Austin neighborhood.

Williams, 17, was standing in the 5500 block of West North Avenue when an unidentified person approached and shot him in the head about 2 a.m., authorities said.

Williams, of the 5400 block of West North Avenue, was dead at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Nobody has been charged in the murder.

Area North detectives are investigating.

-- Sun-Times Media Wire

Anda Rosa Mora / Photo from Chicago Police

Ana Rosa Mora has been charged with murder after her newborn son was found wrapped in a plastic bag in a Northwest Side gangway this month.

The newborn boy was found in a gangway in the 2700 block of North Hamlin Avenue about 8:30 a.m. April 19, authorities said. The infant was dead at the scene.

A police source described the baby as a "full-term male infant" believed to be 1 day old.

Mora, 18, of the 2700 block of North Hamlin, was arrested Friday and charged with murder after she admitted to putting the live infant inside a plastic bag and leaving him lying in the gangway, police said.

On Saturday, Mora was ordered held on $500,000 bond and given a next court date of April 28.

-- Sun-Times Media Wire

Cindy Bahena was fatally shot while riding in a vehicle through the Logan Square neighborhood early Sunday.

Bahena, 21, was a backseat passenger in a vehicle traveling east in the 3500 West Fullerton Avenue about 12:35 a.m., authorities said.

A group of males standing on a nearby sidewalk yelled gang slogans at the vehicle then at least one person opened fire, according to police, who said the driver is a known gang member.

Bahena, of the 200 block of North Laramie Avenue, was struck by the gunfire and died at Norwegian-American Hospital at 12:47 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Nobody has been charged for the murder.

Area North detectives are investigating.

-- Sun-Times Media Wire

Artez McBride / Photo from Facebook

Artez McBride was killed early Saturday when he was intentionally run over by an SUV blocks from his Austin neighborhood home.

McBride, 20, was struck by the SUV while crossing the street in the 0 – 100 block of South Central Avenue about 12:45 a.m., authorities said. The SUV sped away after the crash, police said.

McBride, of the 0 – 100 block of North Long Avenue, was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he was pronounced dead at 2:23 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy found McBride died of multiple injuries from being struck by a vehicle and the death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Darrell Cooper / Photo from Cook County Sheriff's police

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that 41-year-old Darrell Cooper, of the 0 - 100 block of North Lorel Avenue, was charged with first-degree murder for McBride's death.

Cooper is being held on $750,000 and will be back in court May 16.

A Cicero man was stabbed to death during an argument in the Little Village neighborhood early Sunday.

Benito Juarez, 40, was walking in the 4100 block of West 26th Street when several males approached him about about 4:40 a.m., authorities said.

An argument ensued and Juarez was stabbed in the the throat area, authorities said. A police source said detectives are investigating if the attack was gang related.

Juarez, of the 2100 block of South 50th Avenue in Cicero, died at Mount Sinai Hospital at 5:24 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Nobody has been charged for the murder.

Area Central detectives are investigating.

-- Sun-Times Media Wire

Venzel Richardson / Photo from Facebook

BY SAM CHARLES
Sun-Times Media

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder for allegedly fatally shooting 14-year-old Venzel Richardson in February in Woodlawn.

Richardson was walking with several other males in the 6100 block of South Vernon Avenue when a van drove past and the gunman opened fire about 8:20 p.m. Feb. 12, authorities said. The gunman fled in the van after the shooting, police said.

Detectives believe the shooting was gang related, police said.

Richardson, of the 6400 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue, suffered a gunshot wound to the head and died at the scene, authorities said.

Venzel was part of the Mikva Challenge, said Executive Director Brian Brady. The Mikva Challenge is a program that encourages high school students “to be active participants in the political process through elections, community problem solving and policy-making programs,” according to the Mikva website.

Jelani McEwen-Torrence, Venzel’s Mikva Challenge mentor for two years, said he was overwhelmed with grief when he received word of Venzel’s death. Venzel would walk his nephews home every day after school before returning to take part in the program, McEwen-Torrence said.

“These children live in extreme environments,” McEwen-Torrence said. “You can’t categorize them by who they may be affiliated with. I want him to be remembered in a holistic way. He was a caring and courteous person.”

The 17-year-old was charged with first-degree murder Sunday and is expected in bond court Monday, according to police, who were not releasing the alleged shooter's name because he is a juvenile.

-- Contributing: Will Hager

BY MICHAEL LANSU
Homicide Watch Chicago Editor

Eight people were murdered throughout Chicago last week, raising the city's homicide total to nearly 100.

Five of the eight killings happened over the weekend, which also saw 35 other people wounded by gunfire.

The most recent murder happened when 40-year-old Cicero resident Benito Juarez was stabbed during an argument in the 4100 block of West 26th Street about 4:40 a.m. Sunday, authorities said.

Several males approached Juarez as he walked, an argument ensued and Juarez was stabbed in the neck, authorities said. Juarez, of the 2100 block of South 50th Avenue in Cicero, died about an hour later at Mount Sinai Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Juarez is expected to be the 100th non-police-involved shooting Chicago death ruled a homicide by the medical examiner's office following a Monday autopsy.

In the Logan Square neighborhood, 21-year-old Cindy Bahena was fatally shot while riding in a vehicle in 3500 West Fullerton Avenue about 12:35 a.m. Sunday, authorities said.

A group of males standing on a nearby sidewalk yelled gang slogans at the vehicle then at least one person opened fire, according to police, who said the driver is a known gang member.

Bahena, of the 200 block of North Laramie Avenue, was struck by the gunfire and died at Norwegian-American Hospital at 12:47 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

On Saturday, 17-year-old Jaquez Williams was standing in the 5500 block of West North Avenue when a gunman shot him in the head about 2 a.m., authorities said.

Williams, of the 5400 block of West North Avenue, was dead at the scene, according to the medical examiner's office.

In the Back of the Yards neighborhood, 21-year-old Martarvian Emery was fatally shot while in the kitchen area of a home in the 5400 block of South Winchester Avenue about 1:15 a.m. Saturday, authorities. A second person in the kitchen was also wounded.

Detectives believe the gunman opened fire from outside the home, police said.

On Friday, 32-year-old Leonore Draper was fatally shot while in her car 11500 block of South Laflin Street about 10:35 p.m., authorities said.

Draper, of the 1100 block of South Laflin Street, was shot in the right arm and chest and died about two hours later at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, authorities said.

Family members said Draper had just attended A Charitable Confection, a fundraiser on the Near South Side to raise money for teen anti-violence group Project Orange Tree. The group was formed by King College Prep students after the shooting death of Hadiya Pendleton last year.

On Thursday, 22-year-old Darius Kelly was killed in a drive-by shooting in the 900 block of West 83rd Street about 6:25 p.m., authorities said.

Kelly, of the 200 block of West 95th Street, was shot multiple times and died at the scene, according to the medical examiner's office.

In the North Lawndale neighborhood, 19-year-old Demario Collins was in a vehicle in the 1600 block of South St. Louis Avenue when three males opened fire about 3:05 p.m. Thursday, authorities said.

Collins, of the 2100 block of South St. Louis Avenue, was shot in the head, arm and shoulder and died at Mount Sinai Hospital, authorities said.

The killings started about 6:15 a.m. last Monday when emergency personnel found Quinton Jackson with a gunshot wound to the head in the hallway of a building in the 7800 block of South Ingleside Avenue, authorities said.

Jackson, 22, of the 100 block of East 103rd Street, was dead on the scene, according to the medical examiner's office.

Nobody has been charged in any of the murders.

However, Ana Rosa Mora was charged with murder after her newborn son was found wrapped in a plastic bag in the 2700 block of North Hamlin Avenue about 8:30 a.m. April 19, authorities said. Autopsy results were initially inconclusive pending a police investigation.

Mora, 18, of the 2700 block of North Hamlin, was admitted to putting the live infant inside a plastic bag and leaving him lying in a gangway, police said.

On Saturday, Mora was ordered held on $500,000 bond.

Overall, the medical examiner’s office has ruled at least 104 Chicago deaths in 2014 a homicide — including five people killed by police.

Additionally, the state’s attorney’s office filed first-degree murder charges against a speeding motorist who killed an off-duty police officer while trying to flee police even though the autopsy ruled the death an accident.

Chicago Police, which counts murders different, have ruled at least five of the homicides as involuntary manslaughter, justified self-defense or accidents.

Venzel Richardson / Photo from Facebook

BY MICHAEL LANSU
Homicide Watch Chicago

Ahbir Sardin was ordered held on $1 million bond Monday for allegedly killing 14-year-old Mikva Challenge participant Venzel Richardson during a February shooting in the Woodlawn community that police called gang related.

On Feb. 12, Richardson was walking south in the 6100 block of South Vernon Avenue with a group of people who had all gone to a nearby convenience store, Assistant State Attorney Robert Mack said.

A white minivan then stopped on Vernon Avenue and Sardin, 17, opened the driver's side door and fired multiple shots at Richardson about 8:20 p.m., authorities said.

Richardson was struck four times, including one bullet that entered the back of his neck and exited through his forehead, Mack said.

Richardson, of the 6400 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue, was dead on the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Venzel was part of the Mikva Challenge, said Executive Director Brian Brady. The Mikva Challenge is a program that encourages high school students “to be active participants in the political process through elections, community problem solving and policy-making programs,” according to the Mikva website.

Jelani McEwen-Torrence, Venzel’s Mikva Challenge mentor for two years, said he was overwhelmed with grief when he received word of Venzel’s death. Venzel would walk his nephews home every day after school before returning to take part in the program, McEwen-Torrence said.

“These children live in extreme environments,” McEwen-Torrence said. “You can’t categorize them by who they may be affiliated with. I want him to be remembered in a holistic way. He was a caring and courteous person.”

McEwen-Torrence shared the following video Venzel and friends recorded through the program two years ago:

Police learned Sardin may have been involved in the shooting and witnesses identified him in a photo array, Mack said. Sardin was arrested Saturday and charged with one count of first-degree murder.

Detectives believe the shooting may be gang related, police said.

On Monday, Sardin appeared for a bond hearing dressed in a navy blue Juvenile Temporary Detention Center sweatshirt and gray pants. Judge Maria Kuriakos-Ciesil ordered him held on $1 million bond and issued a next court date of May 19.

A public defender said Sardin is a senior at Dyett High School and lives at home with his mother and three younger siblings.

Sardin has no prior felony convictions.

-- Contributing: Will Hager

Timmy Bermudez was one of two people fatally shot in an Easter Sunday shooting in the Little Village community. Reader "coworker865" posted this about the killings:

I work with the mother of Timmy Bermudez, my condolences go to her and there family. She lost an angel and she provided nothing but everything for him. She works her butt of to provide a life for him and that life was taken too soon by the wrong people.

BY CHASE DIFELICIANTONIO
Homicide Watch Chicago

A balloon sways in the wind. An empty liquor bottle rests on the pavement. Flowers wilt in the January snow. These are the memorials for some of Chicago's murder victims.

The memorials are places to grieve, celebrate and share words and photos. Some memorials mark a crime scene, while others are erected outside a victim's home. All are reminders of lives taken by violence.

Alex Anderson

Tramian Barnes allegedly fatally shot 19-year-old Alex Anderson in January in the Portage Park neighborhood. After being shot, Anderson stumbled home and said, “Tre Shot me.” Anderson died the next day and became the 15th homicide victim of 2014.

Photo from Alex Anderson memorial / Photo by Chase DiFeliciantonio

A memorial for Anderson was created near a snowy sidewalk outside his home. It featured a large photograph of him, candles and empty liquor bottles.

Photos from Alex Anderson memorial / Photo by Chase DiFeliciantonio

Ronald Hayes

Ronald Hayes, 17, was fatally shot in February while shoveling snow by his Near West Side home, family said. His mother, Cathy Booker, wore her son's Banner West Academy school ID around her neck as she recalled his love for basketball and his teenage appetite for tacos and Italian beef.

Booker shows Hayes' school ID card / Photo by Chase DiFeliciantonio

Hayes’ memorial was created where he was killed and featured stuffed animals and flowers struggling to survive in the February snow. A single blue balloon swayed silhouetted against the sky -- an exclamation point marking the city’s 31st homicide of 2014.

Javan Boyd

Javan Boyd, 28, was working his night job as a livery driver when at least two gunmen fatally shot him just blocks from U.S. Cellular Field in February. His aunt, Trina Boyd, said he was a hard working man who loved to play basketball and spend time with his 11-year-old daughter.

The memorials often feature balloons and look colorful from a distance, but up close nicknames and expressions of love are often featured on a blank white board.

Photos from Javan Boyd memorial / Photo by Chase DiFeliciantonio

Eric Woods

Eric Woods was fatally shot in the chest at his home in the West Garfield Park neighborhood in late February during a domestic dispute.

Eric Woods / Family Photo

Mourners stood in front of the home where a white board was erected with the phrases “forever you live thru” and “you live through us.” A trail of darkening blood spattered the stairs and sidewalk in front of the home and red roses had been scattered across the scene.

Photos from Eric Woods memorial / Photo by Chase DiFeliciantonio

Endia Martin / Photo from Facebook

BY MITCH DUDEK AND TINA SFONDELES
Chicago Sun-Times

A 14-year-old girl was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday after allegedly shooting another teenage girl in an argument over a boy, police said.

The suspect was charged as a juvenile in the death Monday afternoon of 14-year-old Endia Martin, police said.

In addition, an uncle of the 14-year-old shooter and another individual have been arrested in connection with the gun that the girl allegedly used in the shooting, police said. One of those individuals may have brought the gun to the scene, knowing there was going to be a fight, police said, but no one has been charged yet.


Crime scene where Endia Martin was killed / Photo by Richard A. Chapman

Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy, clearly frustrated, said Tuesday at a news conference that tougher gun laws could have prevented the slaying.

“What would have been, under any other circumstances, probably a fistfight between two 14-year-old girls because of an argument over a boy turned into a murder,” he said.

The gun used in the shooting, a legal .38-caliber revolver, was kept in the owner’s car but was reported stolen April 14, McCarthy said. Police departments don’t let officers store their guns in their cars but under the state’s concealed-carry law, individuals who are properly permitted can.

“That’s insanity. This is madness, folks. This is madness,” he said.

A 16-year-old girl also was shot in the arm and was taken to St. Bernard’s Hospital and Healthcare Center, authorities said.

“I’m very frustrated. I’m sickened. Three ... lives were changed forever yesterday with an introduction of a gun into a fistfight,” McCarthy said.

Endia was shot in the back about 4:30 p.m. Monday in the 900 block of West Garfield Boulevard, police said. A group of teenagers was standing on the sidewalk when an altercation broke out, and someone in the group pulled out a gun and started shooting, police said.

Endia, of the 5300 block of South Wallace Street, was taken to University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, where she died at 5:10 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Endia’s stepfather, Kent Kennedy, said the girl wanted to visit Paris and Rome and join the Navy or go to college.

Kennedy struggled to make sense of the violence.

“I’d still like to know what was the purpose of getting a gun and shooting,” he said Monday night.

“My daughter didn’t roam the streets at night,” said Kennedy, who works a number of jobs at Central Steel and Wire. “We were too strict. We had a strict curfew. She didn’t gang-bang. She never was in trouble with police.”

Kennedy said Endia had recently transferred to Tilden High School from Chicago Vocational High School because he and his wife worried that her commute — two buses and a train — might not be safe.

Kennedy, a former Marine who raised Endia from the time she was 6, said she had big dreams.

“She wanted to do some traveling. I told her the Navy was a perfect fit. She always was talking about how she wanted to go to Paris and places like Italy,” Kennedy said. “And she loved to get dressed up and change her hair all different ways. And she had these footwork dance contests on the block or at her school.”

Kennedy and his wife, who works as a certified nursing assistant at a nursing home, were distraught Monday night.

“Me and my wife, we work constantly, every day raising three kids . . . And I hate to say it, but the good kids, the standout children who are trying to go to school and do something with their lives, they’re the ones who are actually dying in the streets. The ones who want to accomplish something in life,” he said. “It’s not a South Side thing or a West Side thing, it’s the city as a whole. It seems like you can’t walk down the street or even ride the bus any more.”

“Never would I imagine a 14-year-old child would get gunned down in broad daylight,” Kennedy said.

“She will never graduate from high school or get to go to prom, none of that. She was mapping out a plan with her life,” said Kennedy, who wondered if he was sometimes too hard on his daughter.

“She had a kind heart, but she was kind of naive. People used to say I was too strict, too hard, because I would limit where she was going, or that we worried too much. She was too innocent. Too young to go. It’s a feeling that you can’t describe.”

-- Contributing: Stefano Esposito and LeeAnn Shelton

PHOTOS BY RICH CHAPMAN
Chicago Sun-Times

Endia Martin, 14, was fatally shot Monday evening by another 14-year-old girl during an argument over a boy, authorities said. Police investigate the murder in the 900 block of West Garfield Boulevard in the Back of the Yards community.

Leonore Draper was fatally shot outside her West Pullman home after attending a Friday night fundraiser to end gun violence. Reader "moe" posted this about the shooting:

Mere words are not enough in this moment. I grew up in that community and still have family there. What are we doing people? We can't expect to survive this way. Every act of violence that permanently removes another person from our society cannot be tolerated! We must remove guns from the community and regain control of our youth. Yet another life lost to the war on violence, when will enough be enough?

Family photos at memorial outside Ramirez' home / Photo by Emily Brosious

BY EMILY BROSIOUS
Homicide Watch Chicago

Chicago White Sox vendor Nicholas Ramirez loved baseball and hoped to be an emergency medical technician, family said.

Ramirez’ uncle, Oscar Mendoza, described him as a “warmhearted” young man who “treated people well.”

“He was easygoing and always laughed things off,” Mendoza said. “People were drawn to his happiness.”

Ramirez, 19, was driving south on Ashland Avenue in an attempt to get away from a vehicle that was chasing him, authorities said. Ramirez eventually hit two vehicles about 2:30 a.m. Saturday and crashed into a concrete median in the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street.

A gunman exited the vehicle that was chasing Ramirez and shot him in the head, authorities said. Ramirez, of the 3900 block of South Rockwell Street, was dead at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Police said the shooting could be gang related, but family members said Ramirez was not involved in any gang activity. Ramirez had no felony convictions but was sentenced to 10 hours of community service for drinking on the public way in April 2013, according to court records.

Ramirez attended Malcolm X College and wanted to be an emergency medical technician, Mendoza said.

Ramirez’ real passion was baseball and he worked as a vendor at White Sox games at U.S. Cellular Field.

“He loved baseball,” Mendoza said. “He identified himself as a baseball player.”

Ramirez Memorial / Photo by Emily Brosious

Ramirez played catcher in little growing up and won a championship with Brighton Park’s community team, Mendoza said. People called him “Pudge” after former Chicago White Sox catcher Carlton Fisk.

“His friends made shirts for his funeral with [Fisk’s] number 72,” Mendoza said.

As an adult, Ramirez enjoyed spending time with his new puppy “Beya,” Mendoza said. Ramirez was affectionate with the dog, whose name means “Beautiful,” and wanted to take good care of her.

“The dog was like his baby,” he said.

Ramirez lived in Brighton Park with his mother, who was not pleased when he brought the puppy home without permission, Mendoza said.

Beya has comforted her after Ramirez’ death and she is thankful for the dog’s company, Mendoza said.

More than 500 people attended Ramirez’ wake, said Mendoza, who is comforted that his nephew had a positive, lasting impression on many different people.

“I was inspired by how much he touched people’s lives,” Mendoza said “It lifted my spirits. I’m proud to be his uncle.”

Nobody has been charged for Ramirez’ murder.

Area Central detectives continue to investigate.

Marvin Turner was fatally stabbed early Monday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.

Police found the 29-year-old man about 2:50 a.m. Monday on a sidewalk in the 4000 block of West Maypole Avenue with an apparent stab wound to the chest, said police Officer Hector Alfaro, a Chicago Police Department spokesman.

Turner, of the 4000 block of West Maypole Avenue, died at Mount Sinai Hospital at 3:45 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A Tuesday autopsy found Turner died of the stab wound to the chest and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Nobody has been charged with the murder.

Area North detectives are investigating.

-- Sun-Times Media Wire

Artez McBride / Photo from Facebook

BY SUSAN DU
Homicide Watch Chicago

Artez McBride’s family has some closure now that Darrell Cooper has been charged with murder for allegedly running over McBride with an SUV early Saturday in the Austin neighborhood.

McBride’s mother, Tiffany McBride, said the closure only goes so far. She believes other young men will be safer with Cooper in custody, but is also painfully aware his arrest won’t bring her son back.

“I feel better knowing that he can’t do this to another child,” she said. “I should probably hate this kid, but I have no room in my heart for hate right now. He took my son away from me, but I was blessed to have him for 20 years.”

Artez McBride, 20, was crossing the street in the 0-100 block of South Central Avenue about 12:45 a.m. Saturday when he was intentional hit by an SUV, authorities said. McBride was pronounced dead about two hours later at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood.

Tiffany McBride said she keeps thinking back to the last conversation she had with her son. They spent all day Friday together, cleaning around the house and talking. They talked about the future, about him getting married and having kids once he finished school and landed a good job.

“It’s kind of ironic because how many parents can say they actually had a conversation like that with their child in the 24 hours of them passing? I can honestly say that Friday night I was happy,” Tiffany McBride said.

An only child, Tiffany McBride remembered her son as a “gentle giant,” “big kid” and “the man of the house.”

As a child, Artez McBride was eager to bring in the groceries and take out the garbage, his mother said. His aunt, Nikita McBride, said he felt a sense of responsibility to the women in the family.

“He’s the one person that I knew loved me unconditionally, and that’s something that you don't often find,” Nikita McBride said of the nephew who often spent weekends with her watching movies or eating junk food.

“He talked a lot. I used to have to pay him to not talk too much,” Nikita McBride said.

Artez McBride studied business at Wright College after graduating from Roberto Clemente Community Academy High School, family said.

He loved playing video games, talk to girls and eat -- particularly potatoes, baked, boiled, fried or smothered, family said.

More than anything, Artez McBride loved his friends, Tiffany McBride said. He met Reggie Jackson in a third grade reading class and Tiffany McBride now considers him a second son, she said.

The two hung out every day after school, attended each other’s family gathering and frequently wandered around the mall talking to girls. One night Jackson got kicked out of his house and Artez McBride took him in and took him shopping for clothes the following day.

“He was no bad person. He was no gangbanger, he didn’t do any of that,” Jackson said. “He always put me on the right stuff, on jobs, on school. He was focused. He was always, ‘We gotta get rich, man.’”

McBride had not been charged with a crime as an adult, according to court records.

The plan was for Jackson to become a lawyer and Artez McBride to continue college so they could get a house and stay together like brothers.

“He was my only friend, the only friend I could trust,” Jackson said. “My grandma just died last week. I didn’t even cry at her funeral. When I heard about Artez, I couldn’t stop crying.”

Cooper, of the 0 - 100 block of North Lorel Avenue, was charged with first-degree murder for McBride’s death. He is being held on $750,000 and will be back in court May 16.

Crystal Caffey / Photo from Chicago Police

BY EMILY BROSIOUS
Homicide Watch Chicago

Crystal “Cocoa” Caffey fatally stabbed her boyfriend because she thought he stole money from her during a Monday night card game at their West Garfield Park home, prosecutors said.

Caffey, 27, was charged with one count of first-degree murder for the death of Marvin “Pootie” Turner and ordered held on $750,000 bond Tuesday, authorities said.

Turner, 29, was found stabbed on a sidewalk near his home in the 4000 block of West Maypole Avenue at about 2:50 a.m. Monday, authorities said.

Prosecutors said Caffey, Turner, their five children and two others lived in a basement apartment, while Caffey’s sister and boyfriend lived in an adjoining first floor apartment with another man.

Caffey, Turner and four others in the group were all playing cards in the first floor apartment, prosecutors said. Caffey eventually left the card game and went to sleep in the basement.

Turner went down to the basement apartment, woke up Caffey and asked to borrow some money, prosecutors said. Caffey refused and went back to sleep.

When Caffey woke up and found her money gone she went up to the kitchen to confront Turner and found the card game had ended, prosecutors said. An argument and fight ensued where Turner allegedly grabbed Caffey by her hair.

Caffey grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed Turner once in the upper left chest, prosecutors said.

The first floor residents came out of their bedrooms during the fight and one of them called 911, prosecutors said. Officers found Turner outside on the sidewalk and paramedics took him to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died about an hour later, authorities said.

An autopsy confirmed Turner died of a stab wound to the chest and the death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Caffey discarded the knife in the kitchen sink and it was recovered by police, prosecutors said.

She eventually admitted to police that she stabbed Turner during an argument, prosecutors said.

Caffey was convicted of misdemeanor assault and resisting in 2005, misdemeanor battery in 2010 and misdemeanor battery and resisting in 2011, prosecutors said.

She is scheduled to be back in court May 19.

Darius Kelly was killed in an April 24 drive-by shooting in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood. Reader "Shana" posted this about him:

R.I.P. I can't believe my baby brother is gone. I love you.

BY CHASE DIFELICIANTONIO
Homicide Watch Chicago

A balloon sways in the wind. An empty liquor bottle rests on the pavement. Flowers wilt in the January snow. These are the memorials for some of Chicago's murder victims.

The memorials are temporary places where grieving family and friends can share words and photos to celebrate the victim's life.

Some memorials are erected at the scene of a crime, while others are built outside the victim's home, but all are reminders of lives taken by violence.

Alex Anderson

Tramian Barnes allegedly fatally shot 19-year-old Alex Anderson in January in the Portage Park neighborhood. After being shot, Anderson stumbled home and said, “Tre Shot me.” Anderson died the next day and became the 15th homicide victim of 2014.

Photo from Alex Anderson memorial / Photo by Chase DiFeliciantonio

A memorial for Anderson featuring candles and liquor bottles was created near a snowy sidewalk outside his home.

Photos from Alex Anderson memorial / Photo by Chase DiFeliciantonio

Ronald Hayes

Ronald Hayes, 17, was fatally shot in February while shoveling snow by his Near West Side home, family said. His mother, Cathy Booker, wore her son's Banner West Academy school ID around her neck as she recalled his love for basketball and his teenage appetite for tacos and Italian beef.

Booker shows Hayes' school ID / Photo by Chase DiFeliciantonio

Hayes’ memorial was created where he was gunned down and featured stuffed animals and flowers struggling to survive in the February snow. A single blue balloon swayed silhouetted against the sky -- an exclamation point marking the city’s 31st homicide of 2014.

Photos from Ronald memorial / Photo by Chase DiFeliciantonio

Javan Boyd

Javan Boyd, 28, was working his night job as a livery driver when at least two gunmen fatally shot him just blocks from U.S. Cellular Field in February. His aunt, Trina Boyd, said he was a hard working man who loved to play basketball and spend time with his 11-year-old daughter.

The memorials often look colorful from a distance, but up close nicknames and expressions of love are written in black ink on a blank white board.

Photos from Javan Boyd memorial / Photo by Chase DiFeliciantonio

Eric Woods

Alexander Scott allegedly fatally shot 25-year-old Eric Woods at his West Garfield Park home in late February during a domestic dispute.

Eric Woods / Family Photo

Mourners stood in front of the home and wrote “forever you live thru” and “you live through us” on a message board posted outside. A trail of blood spattered the stairs and sidewalk in front of the home and red roses had been scattered across the scene.

Photos from Eric Woods memorial / Photo by Chase DiFeliciantonio