By JARED LANDSMAN and TRISTAN SIMS
Homicide Watch Chicago
At least eight people were killed in Chicago this past week, including two during a violent weekend in which nearly 50 people were shot.
The latest killing—during a weekend in which at least 45 people were wounded by gunfire—happened late Sunday in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.
About 11:05 p.m., 32-year-old Marquis Mitchell was behind the wheel of a parked car with a passenger in the 1500 block of South Kildare when someone rode up on a bicycle and tried to rob them, police said.
When Mitchell started to drive away, the person on the bicycle opened fire, police said. He was shot in the left side and drove to the 1800 block of South Kildare, where the car crashed into a fence.
Mitchell, who lived in the 2400 block of West Madison, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. No one else was injured in the shooting.
A shooting late Friday left 17-year-old Torri Williams dead and a man wounded in the West Englewood neighborhood.
About 11 p.m., the two were in the 6400 block of South Justine when a male suspect got out of a passing white Cadillac and shot them, police said.
The teen was shot in the chest and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Williams lived in the 9000 block of South Laflin.
The 20-year-old man was shot in the arm and taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where his condition had stabilized, police said.
Earlier Friday, Micheal George Walton was shot to death in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Officers responding to a call of a person shot at 2:40 a.m. Friday found the 31-year-old Walton lying unresponsive in the 100 block of West 117th Street with gunshot wounds to the head, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
Walton lived in the 6700 block of South Crandon.
A double homicide on Thursday evening claimed the lives of William Drake and Briona White, shot down in the Roseland neighborhood on the South Side.
Around 6:55 p.m., officers responding to a call of a person shot in the 500 block of West 109th Street found the two outside with gunshot wounds, police said.
Drake, 20, was shot in the head and died at the scene, police and the medical examiner’s office said. He lived a few blocks away in the 10900 block of South Lowe.
White, 22, a Kansas State University student, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she died less than an hour later, authorities said. She lived in the 10100 block of South Carpenter. An autopsy showed she died of multiple gunshot wounds.
Police are investigating whether the shootings were gang-related.
Early Thursday morning, a 51-year-old man was shot and killed in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said.
About 1:20 a.m., officers found the man lying on a sidewalk in the 1300 block of West 108th Place with gunshot wounds to the chest and back. He was dead at the scene, police said.
Media sources have identified the victim as Paul King, a barber who lived on the block where he was shot, but the medical examiner’s office had not released his identity as of Monday, saying family has yet to be notified.
Pierre Resse was shot and killed while driving in the West Side Austin neighborhood Wednesday night.
Officers responding to a crash in the 1100 block of North Central at 11:20 p.m found the 27-year-old shot in the head and unresponsive in the driver’s seat of a vehicle, police and the medical examiner’s office said.
It appeared that after the shooting, the vehicle had crashed into a parked car. Resse, who lived in the 5100 block of North Latrobe, was dead at the scene, authorities said.
Police are investigating whether the shooting was gang-related.
In the week's first homicide, Adarius Hayes was found shot to death inside a car Wednesday morning in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.
Police responded to a report of an unresponsive person in a car in the 7500 block of South Damen about 6 a.m., and found the 21-year-old with a gunshot wound to the chest, police said.
Hayes, of the 8100 block of South Damen, was taken to Christ Medical Center, where he died, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.