Kelvin L. Davis, 24, was fatally shot May 1 in the Greater Grand Crossing community. Reader "Brea L." posted this about him:
Such a young beautiful soul, gone before your time. You always brought a smile to my face. You didn't deserve to this but I know you're in a better place baby boy. And while you weren't perfect you had a heart of gold therefore I know the gates of heaven will be open for you. I'll miss you. See you again someday, rest peacefully.
-Love Brea & Chloe
A North Lawndale man shot more than a month ago in the Uptown neighborhood has died.
Louis Walker, 28, was sitting in a vehicle in the 4700 block of North Broadway when another vehicle pulled up and a gunman inside opened fire about 2:45 p.m. April 7, authorities said.
Walker, of the 1400 block of South Ridgeway Avenue, was shot in the arm, chest and leg, authorities said. He died at 6:46 a.m. Sunday at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
An autopsy determined Walker died of complications from multiple gunshot wounds, and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner's office.
Nobody has been charged for the murder.
Area North detectives are investigating.
-- Sun-Times Media Wire
A 38-year-old woman found dead inside a vehicle Sunday in the Austin community was beaten to death.
Police found 38-year-old Frankie Smith dead inside a vehicle in the 5200 block of West Thomas Street about 10:40 a.m. Sunday, authorities said.
An autopsy determined Smith, of the 1100 block of North LeClaire Avenue, died from multiple blunt-force injuries, and her death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner's office.
Nobody has been charged for the killing.
Area North detectives are investigating.
-- Sun-Times Media Wire
Eric Washington, 25, was fatally shot April 29 in the University Village neighborhood. Reader "prayingforbetter" posted this about him:
R.I.p TRUCKY u will be missed he was such a sweetheart wasn't harm to anyone he loved to crack jokes and try to dance lots of memories I will miss you my friend it won't be the same without you:(
Eric Langham died more than nine months after he was shot while driving in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood.
Eric Langham, 22, told investigators he was shot July 21, 2014, while driving near South Laporte Avenue and West 46th Street, authorities said.
After being shot, Langham pulled into a nearby parking lot in the 5100 block of South Cicero Avenue and called police, authorities said.
Langham, of the 4400 block of South Lavergne Avenue, died at 6:45 p.m. Monday at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the medical examiner’s office.
An autopsy determined Langham died from complications of multiple gunshot wounds, and the death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner's office.
Nobody has been charged for the killing.
Area Central detectives are investigating.
-- Sun-Times Media Wire
Willie Hubbard / Photo from Chicago Police
BY LEEANN SHELTON
Sun-Times Media
Willie Hubbard was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison Monday for throwing a punch that led to 48-year-old Edward James Scott being impaled on a metal fence.
Hubbard, 35, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in March following a bench trial before Judge Matthew Coghlan, according to court records.
Authorities said Hubbard punched Scott in the face because Scott had been harassing guests at a party in the 9100 block of South Greenwood Avenue about 8 p.m. June 16, 2013.
The blow caused Scott to lose his balance and and fall on a wrought iron fence, which impaled him near the eye, police said.
Scott later died at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and the Cook County medical examiner's office ruled the death a homicide.
Hubbard, of the 1000 block of East 111th Street, turned himself in to police, authorities said.
On Monday, Coghlan sentenced Hubbard to 4 1/2 years in prison, according to court records. He was given credit for 72 days spent in jail, and will be required to serve one year of mandatory supervised release after his sentence is complete.
Andrew Jones / Photo from Chicago Police
BY LEEANN SHELTON
Sun-Times Media
Andrew L. Jones was sentenced to three years in prison Monday for an alcohol-involved crash that killed his girlfriend on the West Side in 2013.
Jones, 35, pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated DUI and one count of reckless homicide at a hearing before Judge William Hooks, who handed down the sentence, according to court records.
Authorities said Jones was driving a 1998 Saturn south on Western Avenue when he lost control and hit a viaduct near 16th Street about 2:15 a.m. Feb. 23, 2013.
The force of the crash split the car in half, leaving the passenger’s side completely exposed, police said.
Jones' girlfriend, 26-year-old Cicero resident Chantelle Jones, was a passenger in the vehicle and died three hours later, authorities said.
Authorities said alcohol was a factor in the wreck. Police noted that Andrew Jones was also driving with a suspended license and without insurance.
Andrew Jones, of the 700 block of West 17th Street, will receive credit for more than two years spent in jail since his arrest.
Thomas Bishop Jr. / Photo from Chicago Police
BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
A 21-year-old South Side man was ordered held without bond Wednesday for allegedly shooting and killing two men who had fought with his father last summer.
Thomas Bishop Jr.’s father got into a “verbal and physical” altercation with Corey Hudson, Robert Cotten and others in the parking lot of a West Englewood strip mall because he felt he was being “disrespected,” authorities said.
During the Fourth of July fight, Bishop left the strip mall at 63rd Street and Seeley Avenue and returned in a car with a loaded rifle, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Przekota said.
By that time, the fight had ended and Bishop’s father had driven off with two others.
But Bishop still got out of the car, took out the weapon and opened fire, Przekota said.
Hudson, 34, suffered 10 gunshot wounds to his body and two graze wounds, Przekota said. Cotten, 35, was shot four times.
A witness identified Bishop as the shooter and surveillance footage from a nearby business shows him leaving the area and then returning before the shots rang out, Przekota said.
Assistant Public Defender Margaret Domin said Bishop lived with his girlfriend in the 8200 block of South Wolcott Avenue. The police report lists Bishop’s address in the 6200 block of South Claremont Avenue.
Bishop has twin boys and a daughter and had been working as a mover and at a temp agency, Domin said.
Shamari Salter / Photo from ABC7 Chicago
BY SUN-TIMES STAFF
Two men were killed in a Wednesday night shooting in the Roseland neighborhood that also left a third man critically wounded.
Police said three 19-year-old men were inside a vehicle in the 200 block of West 107th Street when another vehicle pulled up and a gunman inside opened fire about 8 p.m. Wednesday.
Terrance Canady, of the 11300 block of South Stewart Avenue, was shot in the head and abdomen and died at 11:22 p.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, authorities said.
Shamari Salter, of the 0 – 100 block of East 100th Place, was shot in the head and died at the scene, authorities said.
A third man was shot in the chest and and taken to Christ Medical Center in critical condition, police said.
As word of Salter's death spread, friends and family expressed their condolence online:
Salter's mother, Stephanie Franklin, told the Chicago Tribune that another son, Schaquille Salter, was killed about two miles away last Independence Day weekend.
Schiquille Salter, 23, was shot several times in the chest while standing on a corner in the 300 block of West 116th Street just after 9 p.m. Sunday, authorities said.
Just before the shooting, Schiquille Salter had helped his grandmother get bags out of her car and made a pizza to share with friends, said his aunt, Rev. Franshonn Salter. About 10 minutes later, gunfire erupted and Schiquille Salter was struck.
Nobody was ever charged in Schiquille Salter's murder.
Area South detectives are investigating all the killings.
Jonathan Garcia was killed, and another man was wounded, when gunfire erupted outside a Logan Square grocery Wednesday night.
Authorities said Garcia and a 33-year-old man got into a fight with two men outside the FoodSmart Urban Market at 2901 W. Armitage Ave. about 11:10 p.m.
During the fight, one of the men pulled out a gun and shot Garcia and the 33-year-old, authorities said.
Garcia, 19, of the 3300 block of West Palmer Street, was shot in the chest and died at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center less than 30 minutes later, authorities said.
The 33-year-old man was shot in the shoulder and neck, police said. He was also taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center for treatment.
Ald. Joe Moreno (1st) posted a statement about the shooting on his Facebook page:
This was a gang-related shooting. A Latin Lover was shot and killed, and another gang member has been wounded.
There is video footage and the police are investigating. They recovered a gun but the person that shot the victim got away.
I will be working with the 14th District Police Department to organize a community meeting on the two recent shootings in our area in an attempt to improve our safety efforts.
By Thursday afternoon, the crime scene tape had been removed and customers entered the store near the spot where police found Garcia's body the previous night.
Jeannette Hamman, who has been a teacher in the neighborhood for 15 years, did not know a man was shot to death outside the store Wednesday night.
"Logan Square is somewhat of a changing neighborhood ... there is still a certain element you watch out for, but overall it has great neighbors and a strong community."
Another customer, who asked to be identified only as Alex, said he works nearby and heard about the killing Thursday morning.
"I feel like its an everyday thing," he said. "It's the whole city, mostly on the South Side, but here a little bit too."
Garcia's death is the sixth slaying so far this year in the Logan Square community. Most recently, 24-year-old Mikal Johnson— a onetime star athlete at Rolling Meadows High School who later studied music at Columbia College Chicago— was gunned down in the 2700 block of West Bloomingdale Avenue on April 8.
Investigators recovered a .38-caliber revolver at the scene, police said.
A man inside the store during the shooting said he heard four shots. He did not want to be identified.
Nobody has been charged for the killing.
Area North detectives are investigating if the shooting was gang related.
-- Sun-Times Staff, Network Video Productions
Alvin Vincent Randolph was fatally shot in the West Englewood neighborhood Thursday night.
Randolph, 19, was shot in the head in the 6400 block of South Damen Avenue about 7:25 p.m., authorities said.
Randolph, who lived on the block, died less than an hour later at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Nobody has been charged for the killing.
Area South detectives are investigating if the shooting was gang related.
-- Sun-Times Media Wire
Jerren Jackson / Submitted photo
BY MATT McCALL
Homicide Watch Chicago
Every August, Jerren Jackson hosted a barbecue in Washington Park for her friends and family.
The gathering usually attracted more than 50 people, including her four children and several of their friends that she took in when they were troubled teenagers with no place else to go, friends said.
Jackson, 53, will not be grilling ribs this summer after she was stabbed and beaten to death May 5 at her West Ridge home.
Prosecutors claim Jackson's son, 24-year-old Jerome Jackson, slit her throat because he thought she was stealing money from him. He was charged with first-degree murder and is being held on $1.5 million bond.
Myeko Ohana, 37, said she was friends with Jerren Jackson's daughter and lived with the Jackson family as a teenager. She said Jerren Jackson always treated her like a biological child.
"She loved everybody the same," Ohana said. "If you needed a place to stay, and you were friends with her children, you could stay."
Tiffany Stallworth, 36, said she also stayed with the Jackson family when she was in high school. Stallworth said she considers Jarren Jackson her adopted mother, and is proud her funeral services will be standing room only.
"She was was warm, kind, funny and everybody loved her," Stallworth said. "One thing that stood out about Jerren is that she was family oriented. She loved and had a gratifying relationship of all of her children, biological and otherwise."
Prosecutors said it was one of Jackson's biological children who killed her.
Jerren Jackson / Submitted photo
The day Jerren Jackson was killed, neighbors saw a woman run from the home and called 911. When police found her body in her apartment in the 6200 block of North Bell Avenue, she had been stabbed multiple times and had a piece of a dinner plate embedded in her cheek. She had a "severe slice wound from ear to ear on her throat," multiple cuts on her head and face, a stab wound to the chest and defensive wounds on her hands, prosecutors said.
Responding officers saw Jerome Jackson exit the apartment building wearing nothing but boxer shorts and socks, prosecutors said. Jerome Jackson, who was covered in blood, walked to a nearby convenience store and took a beer without paying, Abraham said.
The officers stopped Jerome Jackson, who had two cuts on his hands, and he told officers he got the cuts when he stabbed his mother, prosecutors said.
While in custody, Jerome Jackson gave a recorded statement admitting to beating and stabbing his mother because he thought she was stealing his money.
A public defender said Jerome Jackson has “severe mental health issues.” He will be back in court on May 26.
Ronnie Montgomery was found shot to death in the University Village neighborhood early Saturday.
Police found Montgomery shot in the chest and shoulder on a sidewalk in the 1300 block of West Hastings Street early Saturday, authorities said.
Montgomery, of the 700 block of West Marquette Road, died less than two hours later, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Nobody has been charged for the killing.
Area Central detectives are investigating.
-- Sun-Times Media Wire
Joshua Johnson / Photo from Chicago Police
BY TINA SFONDELES
Chicago Sun-Times
An alleged gang member has been charged with murder after prosecutors said him and a friend fatally shot a 68-year-old man during a 2013 robbery in the Logan Square neighborhood.
Joshua Johnson, 23, was nabbed at the Rolling Meadows courthouse on Friday when he appeared for an unrelated case.
He now also faces first-degree murder charges for the Dec. 12, 2013, shooting death of Cayetano Sandoval in the 1900 block of North Spaulding Avenue.
Prosecutors said Sandoval had just returned home from his job at a bakery when Johnson and another man approached him after he parked his van about 2 a.m.
Johnson demanded Sandoval give them money and began hitting him. Johnson held Sandoval down and the other man took out a gun and opened fire, prosecutors said.
Sandoval was shot five times and died at the scene, authorities said.
Prosecutors said the robbers, both Latin Kings gang members, fled after the shooting.
Surveillance cameras captured the murder, and several witnesses also saw the shooting, prosecutors said.
The robbers fled to a friend's home, and that friend gave police a statement about the murder, prosecutors said.
Cayetano Sandoval
Johnson himself admitted he hit Sandoval as they tried to rob him and also held him down as the other man shot him, prosecutors said.
Despite not pulling the trigger, Johnson was charged with murder and attempted armed robbery. The other man has not yet been charged.
Johnson, whose home address is listed as the 8500 block of South Avalon Avenue and the 1900 block of Oakton Street in Elk Grove Village, has previously been convicted of felony residential burglary and felony burglary.
On Saturday, Judge Peggy Chiampas ordered Johnson held without bond. He will be back in court Monday.
BY MICHAEL LANSU
Homicide Watch Chicago
At least five men were shot to death last week throughout Chicago.
Only one of the killings happened over the weekend, when at least 47 people were wounded by gunfire.
The most recent killing happened when 24-year-old Ronnie Montgomery was found shot in the chest and shoulder on a sidewalk in the 1300 block of West Hastings Street early Saturday, authorities said.
Montgomery, of the 700 block of West Marquette Road, died less than two hours later, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
On Thursday, 19-year-old Alvin Vincent Randolph was shot in the head in the 6400 block of South Damen Avenue in West Englewood about 7:25 p.m., authorities said.
Randolph, who lived on the block, died less than an hour later at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, according to the medical examiner’s office.
On Wednesday, 19-year-old Jonathan Garcia was shot in the chest during a fight outside the FoodSmart Urban Market at 2901 W. Armitage Ave. in Logan Square about 11:10 p.m., authorities said.
Garcia, 19, of the 3300 block of West Palmer Street, died at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center less than 30 minutes later, authorities said. A 33-year-old man was also wounded and taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center for treatment.
In Roseland, Terrance Canady and Shamari Salter were killed when gunfire erupted in the 200 block of West 107th Street in Roseland about 8 p.m. Wedneaday, authorities said.
Canady, 19, of the 11300 block of South Stewart Avenue, was shot in the head and abdomen and died later that night at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, authorities said.
Salter, 19, of the 0 – 100 block of East 100th Place, was shot in the head and died at the scene, authorities said.
A third man was shot in the chest and and taken to Christ Medical Center in critical condition, police said.
Additionally, 22-year-old Eric Langham died Monday after being shot July 21, 2014, near South Laporte Avenue and West 46th Street, authorities said. An autopsy determined Langham, of the 4400 block of South Lavergne Avenue, died from complications of multiple gunshot wounds, and the death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.
In 2015, the medical examiner’s office has ruled at least 142 Chicago deaths a homicide, including one person fatally shot by police.
Morial Ewing was killed in a South Shore shooting that left another man critically wounded early Monday.
Officers heard gunshots about 12:10 a.m. and found two men shot in the 7800 block of South Shore Drive, police said. The shooting happened less than a block from Rainbow Beach Park.
Ewing, 28, of the 8100 block of South Bennett Avenue, was shot multiple times and died at the scene, authorities said.
The other man, 29, was shot in the chest and leg, police said. He was taken in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Nobody has been charged for the killing.
Area South detectives are investigating.
-- Sun-Times Media Wire, Network Video Productions
Jerren Jackson, 53, was stabbed to death May 5 in her West Ridge home. Reader Tiffany R. Stallworth posted this about her:
Beautiful warm kind friendly mother. Just an awesome person! She will be missed
RIH angel
Shamari Salter / Photo from ABC7 Chicago
BY MATT McCALL
Homicide Watch Chicago
Shamari Salter and good friend Terrence Canady were looking forward to the fall term at Parkland College in Champaign, family said.
The friends were driving home from registration when they were shot to death May 13 in the Roseland community.
Salter’s aunt, Rev. Franshonn Salter, said she last saw her nephew at a birthday celebration for his brother, Shaquille Salter, who was fatally shot last Fourth of July weekend.
“[Shamari Salter] had a mind of his own,” Franshonn Salter said. “He wasn’t influenced by people -- he influenced them.”
Franshonn Salter said her nephew, who had a 2-year-old daughter, was an aspiring musician.
The reverend said she shared a rap song she wrote for her congregation, and Shamari Salter excitedly said the two should "collab." Shamari Salter had planned to come to the church's recording studio to work with his aunt on the song, she said.
Police said three 19-year-old men were inside a vehicle in the 200 block of West 107th Street when another vehicle pulled up and a gunman inside opened fire.
Shimari Salter, of the 0 – 100 block of East 100th Place, was shot in the head and died at the scene, authorities said. 
Terrance Canady / Photo from ABC7 Chicago
Canady, of the 11300 block of South Stewart Avenue, was shot in the head and abdomen and died at 11:22 p.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, authorities said.
A third man was shot in the chest and taken to Christ Medical Center in critical condition, police said.
Franshonn Salter said she believes neither brother’s death was gang related.
Nobody has been charged for either Salter murders.
Area South detectives are investigating the killings.
Terrion Mitchell was shot to death in the West Englewood neighborhood Wednesday morning.
Police found Mitchell, 23, shot in the chest in the 6300 block of South Bell Avenue about 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said.
Mitchell, of an unidentified home address, died at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
An autopsy determined he died from multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner's office.
Nobody has been charged for the killing.
Area South detectives are investigating.
-- Sun-Times Media Wire
Schiquille Salter, 23, was fatally shot July 6, 2014, in the West Pullman community. His brother, Shamari Salter, was shot to death May 13 in the Roseland neighborhood. Reader "James" posted this about him:
This is so sad. I just read schiquille's profile and I can't fathom how much the parents of these two must be going through. Schiquille sounds a lot like me, university student just trying to pay tuition and make a better situation for himself, except he grew up in chicago and I'm in canada. RIP
