Master G. Roberson was fatally shot in the Humboldt Park neighborhood Monday afternoon.

Roberson, 23, was in the 700 block of North Hamlin Avenue when a gunman approached and opened fire about 2:25 p.m., authorities said.

Roberson, of the 1400 block of North Linder Avenue, was shot in the chest and head, authorities said. He died about two hours later at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County.

Nobody has been charged for the killing.

Area North detectives are investigating if the shooting is gang related.

-- Sun-Times Media Wire

A 53-year-old man was shot to death in the Austin community Sunday night.

Police responding to a call of shots fired found Donald Hall lying in the street in the 4900 block of West Lake Street about 7:10 p.m. Sunday, authorities said.

Hall, of the 4800 block of West Race Avenue, was shot in the back and died at Mount Sinai Hospital where less than an hour later, authorities said.

Nobody has been charged for the killing.

Area North detectives are investigating if the shooting was gang related, police said.

Less than five minutes later, a 27-year-old man was shot while standing on a sidewalk in the 100 block of North Cicero Avenue in Austin in an apparently unrelated shooting, police said. The medical examiner’s office has not yet released his name.

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A 20-year-old man shot to death Memorial Day weekend in the Humboldt Park neighborhood has been identified.

Ruben Feliciano was driving in the 3300 block of West Division Street when a dark SUV pulled up and a gunman opened fire about 4 p.m. May 24, authorities said.

Feliciano, of the 2400 block of North Sacramento Avenue, died at Mount Sinai Hospital less than an hour later, authorities said.

Nobody has been charged for the killing.

Area North detectives are investigating.

-- Sun-Times Media Wire

Joseph Thrane / Photo from Chicago Police

BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times

Joseph Thrane was in a black Saturn SUV with fellow Latin Kings flashing gang signs before he gunned down Ruben Feliciano in the Humboldt Park neighborhood May 24, authorities said.

Feliciano, a car enthusiast, was driving around in his car while his three other friends followed in three separate vehicles, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Akash Vyas said.

The SUV that Thrane was in drove by the group and then partially blocked the path of the Feliciano’s car, which was leading the others, Vyas said.

Thrane, who goes by the nickname “White Boy,” got out of the back passenger side of the SUV, threw a bottle at Feliciano’s car and tried to get inside before running back to the SUV, Vyas said.

Feliciano was able to drive away but the SUV trailed him and rammed into the back of his car while he was stopped in traffic around the 3300 block of West Division Street, prosecutors said.

The SUV rammed Feliciano’s car again, causing it to spin, Vyas said.

At this point, the 6-foot-5, 250-pound Thrane allegedly pulled out a weapon and started shooting at Feliciano’s car multiple times.

Feliciano, 20, tried to drive away but struck several parked cars before coming to a stop, Vyas said.

The SUV sped away, but Feliciano’s three friends identified Thrane, of the 3200 block of West Wabansia Avenue, Vyas said.

One of Feliciano’s friends told authorities he had seen Thrane several times before, Vyas said.

Thrane was arrested Sunday. The 18-year-old Logan Square man was ordered held on $2 million bond Tuesday.

He was found delinquent twice before as a juvenile in a theft and robbery case, Vyas said.

Thrane is a ward of the state and has occasional contact with his father and grandfather, assistant public defendant Preston Jones said. His mother died, Jones said.

Thrane has a tattoo on his lower left arm that reads, “RIP Mom,” according to an arrest report.

Palos Park native Kevin O'Malley, 25, was fatally shot May 30 in the Lake View neighborhood. Prosecutors said Kristopher Pitts robbed O'Malley of a cell phone then shot him dead. Reader "50 yr old father" posted this about the killing:

This murder has caused much pain to at least 1000 people who live in Palos Park, Palos Heights, Palos Hills, Stagg High School, The University of Iowa, and Our Lady Of The Ridge Church
We all love Kevin....... WE WILL NOT FORGET WHAT HAPPENED!

Byron Driver was shot to death in the Austin neighborhood Sunday night.

Driver, 27, was on a sidewalk in the 100 block of North Cicero Avenue when several people walked up to him and opened fire about 7:15 p.m. Sunday, authorities said.

Driver, of the 2800 block of West Polk Street, died at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County less than an hour later, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Nobody has been charged for the killing.

Area North detectives are investigating if the shooting is gang related.

Minutes earlier, 53-year-old Donald Hall was fatally shot in an apparently unrelated shooting in the nearby 4900 block of West Lake Street. Nobody has been charged in his death.

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A Hazel Crest man was killed in a drive-by shooting Sunday afternoon in the Chatham neighborhood.

Odell Brown, 25, was standing in the 0-50 block of East 88th Street when a white van pulled up and a gunman inside opened fire about 12:15 p.m. Sunday, authorities said.

Brown, of the 17600 block of Oakwood Drive in Hazel Crest, was shot three times in the abdomen and died less than an hour later at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, authorities said.

Nobody has been charged for the killing.

Area South detectives are investigating.

-- Sun-Times Media Wire

Xavier Shannon / Family photo

BY MATT McCALL
Homicide Watch Chicago

Xavier Shannon planned to spend a Sunday afternoon with family, celebrating his sister's wedding anniversary, relatives said.

Shannon, 32, was shot to death just hours before the party.

He had three children: Jeremiah, 10; Xavion, 6; and Destiny, 5, and a stepson, 3-year-old Zion. His sister, Delores Franks, said he worked tirelessly for all four children.

Last year, Shannon worked three jobs to support his family -- two as a security guard, and one in concessions at Soldier Field, family said. Shannon had just reached his one year anniversary at Kates Security.

He collapsed in his home from a minor stroke last year, and his mother made him quit all but one of the jobs so he could take care of himself, relatives said.

Shannon spent the extra time playing with his sons and caring for his children's ailing grandparents, family said.

“He had to carry the grandmother up and down the stairs when she had appointments,” Franks said. “He did all of the grocery shopping, cashed their checks, paid the rent [and] has been doing this for about 10 years. I spoke with the grandparents the morning it happened and they are lost without him. He did everything for them.”

Xavier Shannon / Family photo

His mother, Jacquiline Shannon, said she was surprised that her son had so many friends. He kept in contact with people he met in elementary school and high school.

“He was a loving and caring person,” she said. “People liked him because he wasn't a problem person. He treated everybody the same.”

His sister said she has spoken to at least 100 people since his death.

She said she last saw her brother on May 22, when the family gathered at her stepdaughter's house to send her son to prom.

“He walked right in to my stepdaughter's house and lit up the room,” she said. “He introduced himself as everyone's cousin and had us all laughing within minutes ... At her house we had more laughs because my brother is the shortest of my siblings and his niece and nephews, so we told short jokes. He just laughed it off and the kids went on their way.”

Two days later he was dead.

Authorities said Shannon was standing on a sidewalk in the 7900 block of South East End Avenue in the South Shore community when gunfire erupted about 12:30 a.m. May 24, authorities said.

Shannon, who lived on the block, was hit in the neck and died at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Another man was shot in the buttocks and took himself to Jackson Park Hospital, police said.

Nobody has been charged for the killing.

Area South detectives are investigating.

Joeann Smith / Photo from Chicago Police

BY LEEANN SHELTON
Sun-Times Media

Joeann Smith pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter Thursday for fatally shooting a 65-year-old man in 2014 during an argument about whether or not a gun would fire.

Smith, 54, was sentenced to 30 months probation for the Jan. 8, 2014, shooting in the 1700 block of East 72nd Street, court records show.

Joeann Smith and Willie Smith were arguing about whether or not a gun would fire when Joeann Smith pointed the weapon at the man’s face and fired, authorities said at the time.

Willie Smith, of the 500 block of North Des Plaines Street, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced brain-dead two days later, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Joeann Smith, who lived in the home on 72nd Street, pleaded guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter, court records show. She also faced a charge of reckless discharge of a firearm, but that charge was dropped.

Judge Michael B. McHale handed down the sentence at Thursday’s hearing, according to court records.

Graig Stewart has died after being shot Monday afternoon in the Garfield Park neighborhood.

Stewart, 28, was shot in the head about 2 p.m. Monday in the 100 block of North Karlov Avenue, authorities said.

Witnesses told police they had heard gunshots, and when they looked outside they found him lying on the ground, police said.

Stewart, of the 1200 block of South Central Avenue, died at Mount Sinai Hospital at 2:29 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

An autopsy confirmed he died from a gunshot wound to the head, and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner's office.

Nobody has been charged for the killing.

Area North detectives are investigating.

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Demetrius M. Peebles was shot to death in the Burnside neighborhood Thursday night.

Officers on patrol near the 1300 block of East 94th Street heard gunfire and found Demetrius M. Peebles shot in the head about 9:45 p.m. Thursday, authorities said.

Peebles, 17, of the 2100 block of South Harper Avenue, died at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Nobody has been charged for the killing.

Area South detectives are investigating.

-- Sun-Times Media Wire

A man killed in a suspected murder-suicide in the North Side Rogers Park neighborhood Wednesday has been identified.

Two men were found dead in a home in the 1500 block of West Chase about 4:50 p.m. Wednesday, police said.

Steven Delatorre, 45, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said Friday.

Michael Bowers, 52, died from a gunshot wound to the head, and his death was ruled a suicide, the medical examiner’s office said previously.

Both men lived in the same block where the incident happened, and a police source said the deaths may have been domestic-related.

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Three men have been charged with murder for the fatal shooting of Corey Williams last year in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.

Cordarius Lawrence, 24, of the 8000 block of South Marshfield; Darryl Wilson, 21, of the 8100 block of South Justine; and 24-year-old Joshua Martin of the 10600 block of South Church were each charged with first-degree murder for the fatal shooting on Feb. 6, 2014, police said.

Williams, 29, suffered a single gunshot wound to the chest in the 8100 block of South Marshfield Avenue about 2:15 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

When officers arrived, they found him bleeding and unresponsive on the sidewalk, police said.

Williams, of the 6000 block of South Marshfield Avenue, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was pronounced dead, the medical examiner’s office said.

All three men were expected to appear in bond court Saturday.

17-year-old Richard Edwards was killed and an 18-year-old man was injured in a shooting early Saturday in the South Side Bridgeport neighborhood, police said.

About 2:15 a.m., the two had left a party after they were “involved in an altercation,” police said. As they were driving in a van in the 700 block of West 35th Street, a light-colored SUV pulled up and someone inside opened fire, police said.

The boy was shot in the armpit, police said. Edwards, of the 3900 block of South Lake Park, was pronounced dead at the scene, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

The man was shot in the hand and shoulder and taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition stabilized.

Edward’s body could be seen lying in front of an insurance office on the south sidewalk of 35th Street just east of Halsted for several hours after the shooting. Tenants of the apartment above periodically poked their heads out a window that faced 35th Street.

As police investigated, a woman who said she was the teen’s mother was a half block away on Halsted, crying and pleading with officers to let her see her son’s body, which was covered by a sheet.

“I just want my child,” she said. “I need to touch him. I need to hold him. I need to feel him.”

A man restrained the woman against a car, setting off its alarm twice, and eventually down onto the street as he called other people to tell them to come to 35th and Halsted.

A half block south of the shooting, in the 800 block of West 35th Place, officers blocked off the area surrounding a silver revolver that was in the middle of the street.

In the alley south of 35th Street and just east of Halsted, another officer guarded a van that had its driver’s and driver’s side passenger windows shot out.

Several curious neighbors stood near the crime scene tape as officers directed traffic around street closures of 35th and Halsted streets.

One nearby resident, Daniel Lackemacher, asked officers if traumatic counseling services would be available for those grieving the death. Lackemacher said he has heard gunshots during his four years living in the neighborhood, but never so close to his home.

No one was in custody for the shooting early Saturday. It was the second fatal shooting in Bridgeport in the last three weeks.

Juan Ugalde was fatally shot Friday night in the Little Village neighborhood where he lived on the Southwest Side.

Ugalde, 27, was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the side of his face about 9:55 p.m. in the 2300 block of South Washtenaw, officials said.

Ugalde, of the 2800 block of West 21st Street, was pronounced dead at the scene, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

A 34-year-old man died in a shooting Friday evening in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.

Laurance Boyd was sitting in a parked vehicle in the 1300 block of West 122nd Street at 6:05 p.m. when a male walked up and fired multiple shots, police said. The shooter then ran off eastbound.

Boyd, of the 12700 block of South May in Calumet Park, was shot twice in the back and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he later died, police said and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Richard Rodriquez and Jossean Rueda, both 19, were shot to death early Sunday in the West Side Austin neighborhood.

Rodriquez and Rueda were driving in the 1600 block of North Cicero about 3:50 a.m. when a light-colored vehicle pulled alongside and someone inside fired shots, police said.

Police said one of the victims was shot in the head and the other was shot multiple times in the body.

Rodriquez, of the 2300 block of North Keeler; and Rueda, of the 1100 bock of North Harding, were taken to Stroger Hospital, where they were pronounced dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Antonio Lampley has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for firing the gun that killed Derrius Drakes in a February incident in the Far South Side Roseland neighborhood.

Lampley, 23, was charged Tuesday with felony involuntary manslaughter for the Feb. 25 shooting in the 11300 block of South Parnell, Chicago Police said.

Antonio Lampley | Chicago Police

Drakes was shot in the back in the incident, which happened about 4:30 p.m., police said at the time. He made it to Roseland Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead less than 15 minutes later.

Authorities believe Lampley fired the weapon, but further details about how the shooting happened were not available Tuesday.

Derrius Drakes

Lampley, who lived in the same block on Parnell, was ordered held on a $200,000 bond during a court hearing Sunday, police said. He will next appear in court June 25.

28-year-old Kenneth J. Williams died Monday after being shot last week along with another man in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side.

Williams and a 20-year-old man were standing outside in the 7800 block of South Drexel Avenue about 4:50 p.m. June 4 when they heard gunshots and saw two people running away, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Williams, of the 15800 block of South Marshfield in Harvey, was shot in the head and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 4:54 p.m. Monday, according to the medical examiner’s office.

The younger man was shot in the buttocks, and his condition had stabilized at Stroger, police said.

A pedestrian killed in a high-speed crash in the Chatham neighborhood in April that led to a man facing reckless homicide charges has been identified as an 18-year-old South Side woman.

Bria Hunter was walking in the 8700 block of South Lafayette on April 26 when a Volkswagen barreled through a red light at 90 mph and hit her, catapulting her 100 feet, authorities said.

George Evans, 23, has been charged with reckless homicide with a motor vehicle for the crash, prosecutors said previously.

George Evans / Photo from Chicago Police

Prosecutors claim Evans was driving a rented car with his cousin and the cousin’s young children, and had stopped at a gas station near 79th and State.

One of the children woke up and said she needed to use the restroom. Evans said he would get them home, and struck the pedestrian as he headed back toward the Dan Ryan Expressway, prosecutors said.

The impact shattered the window of the Volkswagen, authorities said.

Hunter, of the 8200 block of South Kimbark, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the medical examiner’s office.

After the crash, Evans was captured on a cell phone video standing over the woman’s body, laughing as he talked about having been in another crash the previous week, prosecutors said.

When police arrived, Evans was sitting in the driver’s seat of the Volkswagen and admitted to the crash, prosecutors said. He told police he was only driving the rental vehicle because his car had been totaled in the other crash.

Evans was ordered held on a $250,000 bond. He was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday for a hearing in the case.