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.