By MITCHELL ARMENTROUT
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Devontay Murray | Cook County Sheriff's Dept.

Devontay Murray, 19, faces counts of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder for the July 25 attack near his home in the 6600 block of South Michigan, according to Chicago Police.

About 4:30 p.m., the 43-year-old Davis was sitting in a vehicle with a 22-year-old woman when someone opened fire, hitting Davis multiple times and the woman in the chest, authorities said at the time.

Vincent "Vinny" Davis Sr.

Davis, known to friends as "Vinny," lived in the 7500 block of South Evans. He died at the scene at 5 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The woman was taken in critical condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said.

About two weeks after the shooting, Murray was arrested and charged with robbing someone near a school or place of worship on the same block, court records show. He pleaded guilty and was serving a four-year sentence at the downstate Vandalia Correctional Center when he was charged with the murder.

Murray is now being held at the Cook County Jail. His next court date is Jan. 3, 2017.

Lavaris "Goose" Johnson was shot to death early Friday in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, just hours after he was reportedly wounded in another shooting less than a mile away.

Officers investigate after a fatal Lawndale shooting early Friday. | Network Video Productions

Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:28 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 4100 block of South Berkeley.

About three hours earlier, a 30-year-old man was shot in the 1800 block of South Pulaski. About 10:05 p.m., he was driving when someone in a light colored car pulled up and opened fire, according to police. The victim was shot in the left arm and drove himself to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was treated and released.

Police said investigators were looking into the possibility that the two shootings were related, but would not confirm media reports that Johnson was the victim in the earlier shooting.

However, a friend posted on Facebook that Johnson had been shot in the arm and taken himself to the ER just hours before being killed.

Known to friends as "Goose," he attended Westinghouse Area Vocational High School and Chicago State University.

--Homicide Watch Chicago and Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Willa Wickerson | Chicago Police

Willa Wickerson was charged late Thursday with first degree murder, according to Chicago Police.

About 2 p.m. on Dec. 7, officers were called to assist paramedics treating the infant, who was unresponsive inside his home in the 6600 block of South Racine, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Timothy was taken to St. Bernard Hospital, where he died at 2:39 p.m., authorities said.

Timothy Harmon | Facebook

Police said the baby's mother was not home at the time, and the 911 call was made by a babysitter.

Wickerson was taken into custody about 9:25 a.m. Wednesday at her home in the 6700 block of South Parnell Avenue, police said.

The state Department of Children and Family Services — which said it had no prior contact with the family — was also investigating, a spokeswoman said.

Wickerson was expected to appear in bond court Friday.

--Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Crispin Coliz Jr. of southwest suburban Cherry Hill was shot to death Friday night in the Belmont Heights neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

Just after 10 p.m., the 28-year-old Coliz got into an argument with two men inside a convenience store, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

When Coliz got into a vehicle and started driving away, the two others followed in a light-colored SUV. They pulled alongside Coliz' vehicle in the 7200 block of West Grace and opened fire, hitting him in the side of the head, police said.

Coliz, who lived in the 4800 block of Rotary Road in Cherry Hill, was taken to Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, where he was pronounced dead at 10:39 p.m., authorities said.

Area North detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.

--Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Joel Planas died about 5 hours after being shot during a fight early Sunday in the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

Planas, 34, was involved in a fight with another male at 12:52 a.m. on a sidewalk in the 3100 block of West Irving Park Road, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The other man at some point pulled out a gun and fired shots, striking him in the abdomen, according to police.

Planas was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 5:59 a.m., police said. He lived in the 2100 block of North Stave Street.

--Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By SAM CHARLES and JACOB WITTICH
Chicago Sun-Times

Police investigate the scene in Brighton Park where two people were killed and two others wounded in a shooting Friday afternoon. | Sam Charles/Sun-Times

Zizumbo, 47; an 18-year-old man and two 17-year-old boys, including Torres, were walking down the 4300 block of South Rockwell at 3:29 p.m., according to Chicago Police. Two people got out of a silver vehicle parked at the mouth of an alley and opened fired at the group.

Zizumbo suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:40 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office. He lived in the 4200 block of South Maplewood.

Torres, of the 4200 block of South Fairfield, was shot multiple times and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:06 p.m., authorities said.

The other two victims were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. The 18-year-old was listed in serious condition with an undisclosed gunshot wound; and the other 17-year-old, shot in the face and neck, was in critical condition, police said.

The older man’s body, covered by a blue sheet, could be seen lying in the street near the curb on the south side of 43rd Street, just east of Rockwell.

A young woman, through tears, screamed at police and asked why his body was still there. An officer approached her at the crime scene tape and told her there was nothing emergency personnel could do to save his life.

“He doesn’t even look like a f—— gangbanger,” she yelled.

Andrew Holmes, a crisis responder and frequent presence at shooting scenes across the city, arrived about 5:30 p.m.

About 30 minutes earlier, four people had been shot at 13th and Kedzie, police said.

“All hell broke loose in the last two hours,” Holmes said.

At one point, officers had to jumpstart a police SUV that had died in the cold so it could block the man’s body from view.

A man who lives near the scene, who didn’t want to be identified, said he heard at least 12 gunshots.

A teenage boy who was shot to death Friday morning in the West Side Austin neighborhood has been identified as Corey Martin.

The 17-year-old was walking on the street in the 600 block of North Long at 8:41 a.m. when someone approached, showed a gun and started shooting, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Martin was shot multiple times and ran behind a nearby property, where he collapsed, authorities said.

Martin, who lived a block north in the 700 block of North Long, was found there and pronounced dead at 9:55 a.m., authorities said.

--Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Meiko Buchanan | Illinois Dept. of Corrections

Meiko Buchanan, 25, pleaded guilty Nov. 2 to two counts of murder before Judge Maura Slattery Boyle, according to Cook County court records.

Anderson, 17, had just left the studio in the 7000 block of South Stony Island Avenue and was walking through an alley when he was confronted and shot Sept. 26, 2013, authorities said at the time.

Leonard "L'A Capone" Anderson | Facebook

Anderson, of the 7200 block of South Bennett Avenue, was no stranger to gun violence and had previously been shot, his mother, Dedra Morris, told the Sun-Times. She said he had just turned 17 and a birthday cake was still sitting in her kitchen to celebrate.

Also charged with murder in the case are Sakhee Hardy-Johnson, 17, and Michael Mays, 21, according to authorities. However, no one has yet been charged with pulling the trigger.

Sakhee Hardy-Johnson | Cook County Sheriff's Dept.

Buchanan was charged with murder for being the driver of a “tail car,” a vehicle meant to insulate the lead car containing the gunman, prosecutors said. Buchanan told investigators he watched the shooter sneak up on Anderson and open fire with a .40 or .45 caliber handgun.

Judge Slattery Boyle sentenced Buchanan, of the 600 block of West 60th Street, to 45 years in prison, according to court records. He will receive credit for 802 days served in the Cook County Jail, and must serve three years of supervised release.

Michael Mays | Cook County Sheriff's Dept.

Hardy-Johnson, 20, was next scheduled to appear in court Monday, according to court records. Mays, 24, is next scheduled to appear in court Feb. 6.

By SAM CHARLES, JACOB WITTICH and JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times

First Deputy Police Supt. Kevin Navarro addresses reporters near a home where four people were found shot to death on the Far South Side. | Sam Charles / Sun-Times

Officers were called at 12:39 p.m. Saturday to a 1 1/2-story home in the 100 block of West 105th Street in the Fernwood neighborhood, according to Officer Jose Estrada, a Chicago Police Department spokesman. But it wasn’t clear just when the shooting happened.

Elijah Jackson, 36; his sister Shacora Jackson, 40; and Nateyah Yafah Hines, 19, were all found dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. All three lived on the same block as the shooting.

A fourth person, 45-year-old Scott Travis Thompson of the first block of Kempton Drive in Romeoville, was also found dead, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Shacora Jackson suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and the other victims each suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Three of the victims were found inside the home, and one of the women was found outside, police said.

A fifth victim, an 18-year-old woman also found outside with at least one gunshot wound, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she remained in critical condition Tuesday. Detectives had not interviewed her as of Sunday evening, police said.

A 2-year-old boy was also in the house. He was unharmed and was taken to Roseland Community Hospital for observation.

“The investigation has revealed people in the home were selling potential narcotics out of that home earlier in the day,” police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. “And we believe individuals returned to rob occupants in that home.

“Detectives said they have very optimistic leads," he said, adding that police recovered substances that appeared to be illegal narcotics from the home.

“It’s known that people in the home knew their attackers,” Guglielmi said, adding that no weapon has been found.

Police initially thought the shooting may have stemmed from a domestic situation, but they walked that theory back as more evidence came to light.

Saturday’s shooting was the third time in 24 hours in Chicago in which at least four people were shot in a single incident.

More than 750 people have been killed so far this year, Chicago’s deadliest since the late 1990s.

By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Zachary 'Zack' Stinson | Illinois Dept. of Corrections

Zachary "Zack" Stinson, 27, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Monday before Judge Thomas Byrne, according to Cook County court records.

About 1 a.m. Sept. 10, 2014, Gabriel Menses called Stinson and asked to meet up in the 5100 block of West Waveland Avenue, authorities said at the time.

Menses, 31, arrived in his vehicle and found Stinson in the backseat of a blue SUV. The two began arguing through the open vehicle windows, authorities said.

The driver of the SUV tried to drive away, but Menses pulled up to block the car, authorities said. Menses and Stinson began arguing again, then Stinson pulled out a gun and shot Menses four times.

Stinson and the others in the SUV fled after the shooting, and police found Menses shot in the back in the driver's seat of his car, which had crashed into a tree and another parked vehicle, authorities said.

Menses, of the 4600 block of North Sayre Avenue in Norridge, was pronounced dead at the scene.

After the shooting, Stinson and his girlfriend fled to California, where he was arrested and extradited back to Illinois.

Judge Byrne sentenced Stinson to 20 years in prison Monday, according to court records. He will receive credit for 819 days served in the Cook County Jail, and will have to serve two years of supervised release.

Stinson was booked into the Stateville Correctional Center to begin serving his sentence Tuesday, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections.

He previously served a one-year sentence for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon in 2011, according to IDOC records.

At least 15 people were fatally shot last week in Chicago.

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A man was fatally shot early Sunday in the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Joel Planas, 34, was involved in a fight with another man at 12:52 a.m. on a sidewalk in the 3100 block of West Irving Park Road when the person he was fighting pulled out a gun and fired shots, striking him in the abdomen, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Planas was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center where he was pronounced dead about 5 hours later, police said.

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Four people were killed in a Far South Side shooting that may have been the result of a home invasion or robbery at a “dope house,” according to police. Officers were called at 12:39 p.m. Saturday to a 1 1/2-story home in the 100 block of West 105th Street in Fernwood, according to police. But it wasn’t clear just when the shooting happened.

Elijah Jackson, 36; Shacora Jackson, 40; and Nateyah Yafah Hines, 19, were all found dead, according to the medical examiner’s office. All three lived on the same block as the shooting. A fourth person, 45-year-old Scott Travis Thompson of the first block of Kempton Drive in Romeoville, was also found dead, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Shacora Jackson suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and the other victims each suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head, according to the medical examiner’s office. Three of the victims were found inside the home, and one of the women was found outside, police said. A fifth victim, an 18-year-old woman also found outside with at least one gunshot wound, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she remained in critical condition. A 2-year-old boy was also in the house. He was unharmed and was taken to Roseland Community Hospital for observation.

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A southwest suburban man was shot to death Friday night in the Belmont Heights neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Just after 10 p.m., 28-year-old Crispin Coliz Jr. got into an argument with two males inside a convenience store, police and the medical examiner’s office said. When Coliz got into a vehicle and started driving away, the two other people followed in a light-colored SUV. They pulled alongside him in the 7200 block of West Grace and opened fire, hitting him in the side of the head. Coliz, who lived in Cherry Hill, was taken to Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, where he was pronounced dead.

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NEED ID: A man was shot and killed during a robbery Friday night in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood on the Southwest Side. At 8:30 p.m., officers responded to a call of shots fired and found a 52-year-old man fatally shot in a parked car in the 5100 block of South Long, according to police. Officers learned that the man was getting into his car when someone walked up and brandished a gun. While the man was trying to drive away, he was shot in the head and then crashed his car into another parked vehicle. Afterwards, the shooter ran away.

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NEED 1 ID: Two people were killed and two others were injured in a shooting Friday afternoon in the Brighton Park neighborhood. A 47-year-old man, an 18-year-old man and two 17-year-old boys were walking down the street at 3:29 p.m. in the 4300 block of South Rockwell, according to police. Two people got out of a silver vehicle parked at the mouth of an alley and opened fired at the group.

One of the 17-year-olds, identified as Daniel H. Torres, was shot multiple times and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:06 p.m. The 47-year-old man, identified as Arturo Zizumbo, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead on the scene. The other two people were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. The 18-year-old was shot and was listed in serious condition, and the other 17-year-old was shot in the face and neck, and was in critical condition, police said.

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A 17-year-old boy was shot to death Friday morning in the West Side Austin neighborhood. Corey Martin was walking on the street in the 600 block of North Long at 8:41 a.m. when someone approached, showed a gun and started shooting, according to police and the medical examiner's office. Martin was shot multiple times and ran behind a nearby property, where he collapsed, authorities said. He was found and pronounced dead there about an hour later.

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A 30-year-old man who was shot to death early Friday in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side may have been wounded in another shooting hours earlier. Officers responding to a call of a person down at 1:07 a.m. found 30-year-old Lavaris Johnson with multiple gunshot wounds in the 1600 block of South Millard, according to police and the medical examiner's office. The circumstances of the attack were unknown. Johnson, who lived in the 4100 block of South Berkley, was pronounced dead at the scene. Three hours earlier, a man of the same age was shot in the arm in a drive-by about a mile away in the same neighborhood. Police said investigators were looking into the possibility that the two shootings were related, but could not confirm a connection.

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A Georgia man was shot to death Wednesday night in the West Chatham neighborhood on the South Side. Antonian T. Mixon, 47, was on the sidewalk at 10:10 p.m. in the 8200 block of South Perry when a male with a gun walked up and announced a robbery, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. The suspect then fired shots, striking Mixon in the head, before getting into a silver vehicle and leaving the scene. Mixon, who lived in Lithonia, Georgia, was pronounced dead at the scene.

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A 49-year-old man was found shot to death Monday afternoon in the Oakland neighborhood on the South Side. About 12:30 p.m., officers found Lawrence T. Matchem unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head in the 800 block of East 40th Street, police and the medical examiner’s office said. Matchem, who lived in the 4400 block of South LaCrosse, was pronounced dead at the scene=.

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A 53-year-old man was shot to death Monday morning in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side. Officers responding to a call of a person down about 11:45 a.m. found Quenten Wright on the ground near his home in the 11400 block of South King Drive with a gunshot wound to the head and one gunshot wound to each arm, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Wright was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 3:31 p.m.

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A 32-year-old man who was shot on Thanksgiving in the West Side Austin neighborhood died of his wounds early Monday. Anthony Shorter and a 35-year-old man were talking to a third man about 11:45 p.m. Nov. 24 in the 1600 block of North Latrobe when an argument began and the third man pulled out a handgun and fired shots, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

Shorter was shot in the chest, abdomen and leg; and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 2:22 a.m. Monday, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. The older man was shot in the leg and was taken to West Suburban Medical Center, where his condition stabilized.

By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Jordan Scott | Chicago Police

Jordan Scott, 26, faces one count of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder, according to the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.

About 3:30 a.m. Oct. 3, a 26-year-old man woke up on a couch in his apartment in the 100 block of North Central and heard arguing and yelling coming from a bedroom, according to prosecutors.

He heard Scott, whose nickname is “Peanut,” demand money, prosecutors said. Then he heard his roommate, the 33-year-old Rockett, tell Scott something to the effect of, “It didn’t have to be that way.”

Samuel Michael Rockett Jr. | photo provided

The man then heard gunshots, prosecutors said. He tried to get up from the couch when Scott and another person entered the room, but Scott shot him in the hand, face and body.

Rockett, known to friends as Mike, was shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. The 26-year-old was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition, and remained in a coma for two months, authorities said.

Prosecutors said Scott had known Rockett and the other victim since high school, and they had been in regular contact before the night of the murder.

Cellphone records showed Scott and Rockett exchanged text messages saying Scott would be coming over to play dice just before the shooting, prosecutors said. The records also show Rockett’s phone was near the victims’ apartment at the time of the shooting.

Scott, of the 5500 block of West LeMoyne, was ordered held on a $1.5 million bond Wednesday.

Moises Gonzalez | Provided photo

By LOU FOGLIA
Homicide Watch Chicago

Moises Antonio Gonzalez was busy preparing for the holiday season just days before he was killed, family members recall.

Each year before December’s arrival, he would set up a holiday train beneath the family’s Christmas tree in their Little Village apartment.

The train was given to him by his mother, Irma Jimenez, during the family’s first Christmas in Chicago in 1996. It was the year Gonzalez, his mother and two younger siblings fled from their father, who abused them, according to family members.

But when the train was destroyed in a basement flood a few years ago, the holiday tradition stopped. That was until last month—when Gonzalez’s sister, Yahtzeni Gonzalez, 23, surprised her older brother with a brand new train set.

“He was so excited to see the train,” Yahtzeni Gonzalez said. “So excited that it was there and it looked just like the one my mom got him when we first came [to Chicago].”

Her brother died a few days later on Nov. 23—the eve of Thanksgiving Day.

The 25-year-old was standing in the street at 2:14 a.m in 4100 block of West 47th Street with another man when a third man fired shots at them from a gangway, according to Chicago Police.

Gonzalez was shot in the chest and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at at 2:53 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

“My brother was not just a number,” Yahtzeni Gonzalez said, frustrated by her brother’s death and the recurring cases of gun violence in Chicago. “He had visions and goals. He knew what he wanted in life.”

Those goals included protecting his family—which she said her brother set out to do from a young age. Moises Gonzalez read Batman comics when his father became violent. The then-6-year-old read to get away from his father, but also to find ways he could protect his mother and siblings.

“He would look at Batman as a hero,” Yahtzeni Gonzalez, said. “Because although both of his parents were gone, he managed to want to save the world. He managed to want to save Gotham.”

Moises Gonzalez, left, with his sister, Yahtzeni Gonzalez, (top center) mother Irma Jimenez and brother Luis Gonzalez. | Provided photo

So Moises Gonzalez began calling himself “Batman,” and set out to save his family.

When his family moved to Chicago, he began working at a warehouse with his mother. The middle schooler lifted boxes and took out trash, but didn’t earn much money.

With each paycheck, he took his siblings to a corner store near 25th and Hamlin in Little Village. He’d buy them each a bag of chips, a can of Coke and candy if they wanted it.

As her brother grew older, Yahtzeni Gonzalez said her brother would bring her to and from high school. He defended her from bullies, and mentored her as best he could—all while he attended Lawndale Little Village High. There, Gonzalez graduated at the top of his class, his sister said.

When his mother lost her job in 2013, Moises Gonzales stepped in. He put his plans for college on hold, and began working as a mechanic at Jiffy Lube full-time. Earlier this year, he was promoted to assistant manager.

“Since we were young my brother was always very over-protective, Yahtzeni Gonzalez said. “He always wanted us to be safe. He always wanted to make sure we had everything we needed.”

Moises Gonzalez also worked so his sister could earn her bachelors degree. She said she will graduate from Northeastern Illinois University in the spring with a psychology degree, and the siblings had planned to trade places in the fall—she would work and Moises would attend school. She said he had plans to become an astronomer.

Among his numerous responsibilities, Moises Gonzalez was an aspiring professional wrestler. He wrestled throughout high school and continued fighting in tournaments regularly after graduation.

Yahtzeni Gonzalez said her brother would come home bruised, sometimes with fractured bones, but was never discouraged. His favorite wrestler was “The Undertaker.”

“All he kept saying was, ‘This is my life and this is what I love to do,’” Yahtzeni Gonzalez said. “I don’t know what he was doing on in his head, but he loved it [wrestling].”

She recalled waking up in the middle of the night Nov. 23 to the sound of her mother on the phone. She said she had a “gut feeling” that something was wrong with her brother—and she was right.

Yahtzeni Gonzalez and her mother were told to quickly drive to Mount Sinai Hospital. They had no idea what had happened to her brother, or what his condition was. At the hospital they met with a team of doctors in a small waiting room.

“It seemed like in the movies when someone gives you the bad news,” she said.

Doctors told them a bullet had pierced her brother's torso and damaged his lungs. They were unable to save him.

“At the moment I didn’t know what to do,” she said. “I didn’t know what that meant. I didn’t know what was going on.”

She was allowed to see her brother, but she couldn’t touch him. He was part of a police investigation at the time.

“It was hard to look at my brother in the bed—knowing that he wasn’t there anymore,” she said. “What hurt the most was that nobody closed my brother’s eyes.”

Hours later, on Thanksgiving morning, Yahtzeni Gonzalez said it felt like “just another day.” Her mother and younger brother were still in shock as friends and relatives visited and gave their condolences.

Moises Gonzalez with his sister Yahtzeni Gonzalez, on her 21st birthday. | Provided photo

“For me, there really was no way to say thanks,” Yahtzeni Gonzalez said. “There was no Thanksgiving. How do you give thanks when your brother was murdered and you don't know anything? The only thing that I was able to give thanks for was that I did have a brother like him and he left a huge legacy behind.”

The family plans celebrate the holidays as best they can. She said her family wants closure, but little progress in the investigation of her brother's killing has been made. She said they’ve reached out to detectives, but haven’t heard back.

The family is also struggling to pay for Moises' tombstone, and the two vehicles he owned. They raised more than $7,000 through a GoFundMe page, but that only covered most of his funeral expenses.

“It doesn't even feel like the holidays,” Yahtzeni Gonzalez said.

Still, she said her brother’s death has brought the family closer together this year—something he would have wanted.

“This Christmas all my aunts and uncles are coming together...we’re all going to be there,” Yahtzeni Gonzalez said. “That’s what he wanted to see.”

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-TImes

Keonte Hill | Chicago Police

Keonte Hill was the one who pulled the trigger, killing Norwood near the BP station in the 7000 block of South Ashland, Cook County prosecutors said.

Hill, 18, was one three people who drove up in a Jeep Grand Cherokee on Oct. 13, Assistant State’s Attorney Jullian Brevard said.

Hill and one of his cohorts initially went into the station while a third man got gas, Brevard said.

Devante Norwood | Facebook

The group later drove up to the side of the station near the air pumps are and waited, Brevard said.

After Norwood pulled up to a gas pump and got out of his car, Hill came up from behind and shot him, Brevard said.

Even after Norwood, who was in his 20s, fell to the ground, Hill allegedly kept shooting. Hill eventually got back into the Jeep and drove away with the two others, Brevard said.

Two people witnessed the murder and surveillance cameras captured Hill shooting Norwood, Brevard said, and one witness, who knows Hill, identified him in the video.

Tavaris Dean | Chicago Police

At least one of his co-defendants, Tavaris Dean, was previously charged with murder and is being held on $1 million for Norwood’s murder.

Hill worked in construction and lived with his mom and five siblings before he was jailed, an assistant public defender told Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr.

Bourgeois called the deadly incident “cold blooded.”

By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times

Little Village resident Manuel Guzman, who was shot more than 20 years ago, died at his home in October, and now his death has been ruled a homicide.

Guzman, 46, was found unresponsive in his home in the 2800 block of West 21st Street about 8 a.m. Oct. 4, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died at 1:05 p.m., authorities said.

An autopsy at the time did not rule on his cause and manner of death, but has since found that he died of heart disease, according to the medical examiner’s office. Pneumonia and chronic kidney disease due to the remote gunshot wound were listed as contributing factors, and his death was ruled a homicide.

Guzman was shot in the winter of 1992, according to the medical examiner’s office. Details about the shooting, and whether anyone was ever charged, weren’t immediately available from police.

Area Central detectives are investigating.

Rolando Gamino of East Chicago, Indiana, was shot to death during an argument in a Little Village apartment in October, and his death has now been ruled a homicide.

Gamino, 30, was in an argument with another man in the 3100 block of South Central Park about 4:20 a.m. Oct. 9 when the suspect pulled out a handgun and opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Gamino, of the 5000 block of Baring Avenue in East Chicago, was shot in the chest and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, authorities said. He died at the hospital at 9:34 a.m.

An autopsy at the time did not rule on cause and manner of death, with results pending further investigation, but the medical examiner's office has since ruled he died of a gunshot wound to the chest and his death was ruled a homicide.

--Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times

Damon Rogers | Cook County Sheriff's Dept.

Damon Rogers killed McKnight on Sept. 19 in the 13000 block of South Langley, Cook County prosecutors said.

One of McKnight’s cousins, a 20-year-old man, was shot in the chest, but survived, Assistant State’s Attorney Kristin Estrada said. McKnight’s other cousin, a 24-year-old man, wasn’t injured.

Rogers, who went to Las Vegas after the shooting, was extradited to Chicago this week and admitted his role in the shootings, Estrada said.

The three victims were Gangster Disciples, while Rogers is a Mickey Cobra, Estrada said.

Maurice McKnight | Facebook

The morning of McKnight’s murder, his 24-year-old cousin went upstairs in an apartment and saw Rogers with another man. The 24-year-old didn’t say anything and went back outside to rejoin his brother and McKnight, 26, Estrada said.

The man who was with Rogers eventually came outside and a discussion started about McKnight, Estrada said. Then Rogers came out wearing a red sweatshirt and armed with a handgun, Estrada said.

The victims tried to defuse the situation and said they didn’t want trouble. Rogers’ companion then made a “gang-related comment” about a dead Black Disciple, Estrada said. Right after, Rogers allegedly shot McKnight.

Rogers went on to shoot McKnight’s 20-year-old cousin and then aimed at the 24-year-old, Estrada said.

Rogers also shot at McKnight several more times while he was on the ground, Estrada said.

He ran off, but surveillance cameras captured him taking off his sweatshirt and throwing it under a nearby car, Estrada said.

Police recovered five .45-caliber casings as well as a .45-caliber handgun from a nearby apartment awning, Estrada said.

Multiple witnesses identified Rogers as the shooter, Estrada said.

Rogers, 24, of the 7100 block of South Champlain, was charged with murder and attempted murder.

While he was ordered held without bond for that deadly incident, Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. on Thursday also ordered Rogers held on $2 million for an armed robbery that took place 13 days before the fatal shooting.

In that incident on Sept. 6, Rogers and two others robbed the Happy Grocery and Dollar Store at 1065 Granville, Estrada said.

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times

Rehomore Spivey | Chicago Police

Assistant State’s Attorney Bryan Grissman didn’t say whether 40-year-old Gipson was trying to break up the fight, but said the woman’s daughter and aunt, who lived on the building’s first floor, tried to intervene before the shots were fired Nov. 20.

Earlier that morning, Rehomore Spivey left a party that he and his girlfriend were hosting because he thought a guest was cheating in a card game.

He left the gathering after arguing with the others, but eventually returned and sulked in his room until 3 a.m., Grissman said.

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When Spivey emerged, he picked a fight with his girlfriend because someone he didn’t like showed up at the bash in the 7800 block of South Michigan, Grissman said.

Spivey allegedly knocked his girlfriend to the ground, got on top of her, and started hitting her in their second-floor apartment.

That’s when her female relatives tried to separate the couple, Grissman said.

Soon, Spivey, 32, started arguing with Gipson, who lived on the building’s first floor, Grissman said.

During, the argument, Spivey took out a gun and shot Gipson, Grissman said. Gipson fell, then Spivey stood over Gipson and fired one more time before fleeing the apartment with his girlfriend’s car keys.

As Spivey drove away with his girlfriend’s van, an unknown man came out of the building and shot at his vehicle, Grissman said.

Gipson died from a gunshot wound to his chest.

Spivey’s girlfriend, and her aunt and daughter all identified Spivey as Gipson’s shooter, Grissman said.

Another witness saw Spivey fleeing from the apartment after hearing gunshots that morning, Grissman said.

Spivey was on parole at the time for a 2012 burglary.

“You are dangerous, and you are a flight risk,” Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. told Spivey before ordering him held without bond Thursday.

Authorities have identified the man who was stabbed to death Monday night in the North Kenwood neighborhood on the South Side as 58-year-old Anthony Durham.

Anthony Durham was stabbed in the chest at 7:37 p.m. during a domestic altercation in the 4300 block of South Ellis, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Durham, who lived in the same block, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:46 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said. An autopsy ruled his death a homicide.

Police initially said someone was taken into custody in connection with the stabbing, but that person was later released without charges. Area Central detectives are investigating.

--Chicago Sun-Times Wire

By JEFF MAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

At least 15 people were killed in Chicago last week, including four who were slain in what police called a robbery or home invasion as a home where drugs were being sold on the Far South Side.

The Fernwood massacre occurred Saturday at what Chicago Police called “dope house” in the 100 block of West 105th Street. However, it wasn’t clear exactly when the shootings happened.

Officers were called at 12:39 p.m. to the home and found Elijah Jackson, 36; Shacora Jackson, 40; and Nateyah Yafah Hines, 19, dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. All three lived in the house. A fourth person, 45-year-old Scott Travis Thompson of southwest suburban Romeoville was also found dead.

Shacora Jackson suffered multiple gunshot wounds, while the otherss each suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head, according to the medical examiner’s office. A fifth victim, an 18-year-old woman found outside with at least one gunshot wound, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she remained in critical condition. A 2-year-old boy was unharmed and was taken to Roseland Community Hospital for observation.

The week's killings pushed the city total to more than 750 for 2016.

• The week's last homicide occurred Sunday morning in the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Joel Planas, 34, was involved in a fight with another man at 12:52 a.m. in the 3100 block of West Irving Park Road when the person he was fighting pulled a gun and fired, striking him in the abdomen, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Planas was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center where he was died about 5 hours later, police said.
• A southwest suburban man was shot to death Friday night in the Belmont Heights neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Just after 10 p.m., 28-year-old Crispin Coliz Jr. got into an argument with two men inside a convenience store, authorities said.
  

  When Coliz got into a vehicle and started driving away, the two others followed in a light-colored SUV, pulled alongside him in the 7200 block of West Grace, and opened fire, hitting him in the side of the head. Coliz, who lived in Cherry Hill, was taken to Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, where he was pronounced dead.

• Michael Newell was shot and killed during a robbery Friday night in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood. At 8:30 p.m., officers responded to a call of shots fired and found the 52-year-old shot in a parked car in the 5100 block of South Long, authorities said. He had was getting into his car when someone walked up and pulled a gun, police said. When Newell tried to drive away, he was shot in the head and then crashed his car into another parked vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
• Two people were killed and two others wounded in a shooting Friday afternoon in the Brighton Park neighborhood. A 47-year-old man, an 18-year-old man and two 17-year-old boys were walking down the street at 3:29 p.m. in the 4300 block of South Rockwell, according to police. Two people got out of a silver vehicle parked at the mouth of an alley and opened fired at the group.

  The 47-year-old, identified as Arturo Zizumbo, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. One of the 17-year-olds, identified as Daniel H. Torres, was shot multiple times and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

  The other two victims were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. The 18-year-old was listed in serious condition, and the other 17-year-old, who was shot in the face and neck, was in critical condition, police said.

• A 17-year-old boy was shot to death Friday morning in the West Side Austin neighborhood. Corey Martin was walking on the street in the 600 block of North Long at 8:41 a.m. when someone approached, showed a gun and started shooting, according to police and the medical examiner's office. Martin was shot multiple times and was found behind a nearby property and pronounced dead.
• A 30-year-old man who was shot to death early Friday in the Lawndale neighborhood had been wounded in another shooting hours earlier, police said. Officers responding to a call of a person down at 1:07 a.m. found 30-year-old Lavaris Johnson with multiple gunshot wounds in the 1600 block of South Millard, according to police and the medical examiner's office. Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene. Three hours earlier, he had been shot in the arm in a drive-by about a mile away in the same neighborhood, and took himself to a hospital where he was treated and released.
• A Georgia man was shot to death Wednesday night in the West Chatham neighborhood on the South Side. Antonian T. Mixon, 47, was on the sidewalk at 10:10 p.m. in the 8200 block of South Perry when a male with a gun walked up and announced a robbery, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. The suspect then fired shots, striking Mixon in the head, before driving away. Mixon, who lived in Lithonia, Georgia, was pronounced dead at the scene.
• A 49-year-old man was found shot to death Monday afternoon in the Oakland neighborhood on the South Side. About 12:30 p.m., officers found Lawrence T. Matchem unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head in the 800 block of East 40th Street, police and the medical examiner’s office said. Matchem was pronounced dead at the scene.
• A 53-year-old man was shot to death Monday morning in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side. Officers responding to a call of a person down about 11:45 a.m. found Quenten Wright on the ground near his home in the 11400 block of South King Drive with a gunshot wound to the head and gunshot wounds to each arm, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Wright was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died about three hours later.
• A 32-year-old man who was shot on Thanksgiving in the West Side Austin neighborhood died of his wounds early Monday. Anthony Shorter and a 35-year-old man were talking to a third man about 11:45 p.m. Nov. 24 in the 1600 block of North Latrobe when an argument began and the third man pulled out a handgun and fired, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

  Shorter was shot in the chest, abdomen and leg; and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 2:22 a.m. Monday, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. The older man was shot in the leg and was taken to West Suburban Medical Center, where his condition stabilized.