Store robber shot dead in South Chicago

A man trying to rob a South Side cell phone store Tuesday died after an exchange of gunfire with the store clerk as another man inside broke his ankle trying to escape the shootout.
Police say 25-year-old Demarcus Brandon tried to rob the store, in the 1700 block of East 87th Street, but was shot dead by the clerk about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Brandon was pronounced dead at the scene. Police found a handgun they believed to be his.
Police said there was an exchange of gunfire between Brandon and the clerk, though it’s not clear who shot first.
Brandon was paroled from the Shawnee Correctional Center this summer, where he had been serving concurrent 3-year and 13-year sentences.
The 13-year sentence stemmed from an incident in Chicago in which Brandon was charged with armed robbery with a firearm, armed violence, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, gun possession, aggravated fleeing from police, and having either a rifle with a barrel less than 16 inches or shotgun with a barrel less than 18 inches.
That case, and the one that ended with a 3-year sentence, both ended in plea deals. He was credited for about 20 months time served and admitted to IDOC custody in September 2008.
His projected parole discharge date was in July of 2016.

Life in prison for 2011 Grant Park sex assault, robbery

A homeless man convicted last month in the 2011 robbery and sexual assault of a Schiller Park grandfather in Grant Park was sentenced to natural life in prison plus seven years today.
Cortez Foster, 47, was convicted Nov. 1 of aggravated criminal sexual assault and robbery in the attack on the 65-year-old man starting just before midnight on March 25, 2011 in the 800 block of South Michigan Avenue near the park’s Logan Monument.
On Thursday, Cook County Criminal Court Judge Dennis Porter sentenced him to natural life in prison on the sexual assault charge, plus another 7 years for the robbery conviction.
The night of the attack, the victim was walking in the park when Foster went up to him and started punching and kicking him, took the victim’s pants off, assaulted him with a tree branch and stole his cell phone.
A passerby saw the victim leaning against a concrete railing and wearing no pants after he had walked north a short distance, and the passerby called police. About 12:15 that morning officers found the victim, who was unable to speak, in the 700 block of South Michigan Avenue.
The victim was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was treated for multiple facial fractures and cuts, and underwent surgery because of the sexual assault.
Police investigators traced the victim’s missing cell phone to a nearby apartment complex and found the man who had it, who told detectives he gave Foster three Viagra pills for the phone. Investigators figured out who Foster was by checking a log book at the apartment complex, and found Foster at the Pacific Garden Mission.
Foster had been on parole after being released from prison after serving part of 20-year-sentence for a 2001 armed robbery conviction. After his arrest, he admitted to police he became angry and attacked the 65-year-old victim at the park. He also had two other felony convictions, including in a 1991 robbery and sexual assault case.

Parolee charged in August rape now charged in June attack

A parolee already charged in an August rape in the East Chatham neighborhood has been charged in the rape and kidnapping of another woman only blocks away almost three months before.
Geraud Nichols, 25, is charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping in the ordeal  June 4 and 5 that began near 7900 S. Drexel Avenue, which is also the block where Nichols lives. Cook County Criminal Court Judge James Brown ordered Nichols held without bail in a court hearing midday today.
Nichols, who is on parole in a 2009 possession of a stolen motor vehicle case for which he was sentenced to 7 years in prison, was arrested in the June attack on Tuesday after the victim identified him in a lineup.
The victim in the June attack was near 79th and Drexel about 11 p.m. June 4, when someone stole her cell phone and she began following the thief. Nichols came up behind her, forced her into an alley at gunpoint and raped her.
Nichols then held the victim at gunpoint and was let into a nearby apartment building by someone, taking her with the gun to her back into an apartment. In the apartment, he lay down with her with the gun to her back until the morning in a room with two adults and children.
 In the morning, Nichols took the victim to the area where her phone had been stolen, confronted a woman about the phone’s theft, then left briefly and came back with the phone.
Nichols told the victim to go into a nearby corner store while he stayed outside, but he was arrested by police on suspicion of possession of the gun. Court records show Nichols was arrested June 5, found guilty of possessing a replica firearm or pellet gun, and given two days in jail, plus at $264 fine. Records indicate he was, however, taken back into state custody in the 2009 stolen motor vehicle case.
After Nichols was arrested June 5, the victim went home and called her mother, and when her mother came home, told her what had happened.
After Nichols was released from state custody Aug. 15, on Aug. 29 about 10:50 p.m., Nichols attacked another woman after approaching her and a friend near 78th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, according to prosecutors and police records. The victim and her friend were walking when Nichols went up to them and asked if he could walk with them.
When the friend went home, the victim and Nicholas walked together for a few blocks before Nichols pulled a gun, threatened her and pulled her into an abandoned building, where he raped her and stole her cell phone. The victim later saw him and called police, who arrested him with the victim’s phone.
After his arrest, Nichols was released in lieu of $400,000 bail, for which he had to put down $40,000 cash, according to court records. When he was arrested again this week in connection with the June attack, he admitted he had been with the victim in June and having had sex with her,

Parolee charged in August sex assault at Near North Side store

 

A man on parole in three 2011 cellphone thefts on the Near North Side has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman over the summer at a store blocks away from where the thefts took place.
Michael Roberson, 30, has been charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault and kidnapping using deceit in the Aug. 6 attack at a store near Illinois and State streets.
Roberson, of the 7900 block of South Ingleside Avenue, is on parole in the November 2011 thefts and was taken back into custody this month. He also was wanted for jumping bail in two theft cases from this spring.
The August attack happened as a woman was closing a Near North store about 10:15 p.m. Aug. 6.
The attacker had been in the store near East Illinois and State streets earlier in the evening and returned around 10 p.m. saying he had left something in the restroom. The woman, 42, let him in and the man pulled a knife and forced her into the restroom in the back of the store.
He trapped her in a stall, smoked crack cocaine and assaulted her, at one point stopping her from escaping. The woman then heard her husband walking around inside the store and screamed for help, police said. The husband, 36, went to the back of the store and began fighting with the attacker, suffering cuts to his head.
The attacker ran to the front of the store but found the door locked. The husband grabbed a bat and started chasing the attacker, but the attacker was able to grab keys off the counter, unlock the front door and flee east on Illinois Street.
The woman was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for treatment.
In the 2011 thefts, Roberson was arrested Nov. 21 after a woman recognized him as someone who had stolen her iPhone about an hour earlier from a restaurant near Dearborn and Division streets. Roberson was found to have two more stolen iPhones, and was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty in the thefts.
At the time of the Near North attack this summer, Roberson was free on bond in three cases from May and early June, committed after he was released from prison on May 9. Roberson had already been released from prison in the 2011 downtown theft cases sometime before, but had been arrested again Feb. 2 after criminally trespassing in a building in the 400 block of West Sullivan Street in Old Town about 10:38 p.m. that day. He was sentenced to 50 days in jail in that case after pleading guilty.
In the cases from this spring, Roberson is accused of thefts that took place May 14 about 1 p.m. in the 500 block of West North Avenue and May 29 about 11:25 a.m. in the 200 block of North Michigan Avenue. He was arrested June 3 after assaulting someone at a convenience store in first block of East Wacker Drive about 7:30 a.m., but released on $40,000 bond.
After a warrant was sworn out for his arrest when he failed to show up in court Aug. 14 in the May and June cases, on Aug. 19 police obtained a warrant for Roberson’s arrest on charges of aggravated criminal sexual assault and kidnapping in the Aug. 6 attack.
The no bail warrant in the May and June cases was let stand in a court hearing Monday, according to court records. Roberson, who is being held at Cook County Jail, has not yet appeared in court in the sexual assault case

26-year-old charged with Englewood homicide

An Englewood man was charged with first-degree murder in connection with a shooting that left a 21-year-old man dead and another wounded at an Englewood gas station last week.
Trevonti Carson, of the 5700 block of South Green Street, is alleged to have killed 21-year-old Devorite Diggins near the intersection of Halsted and 59th streets on Wednesday.
Diggins and another 21-year-old were shot about 2:20 p.m. on Wednesday. Diggins died at the scene and the other man's wounds were not life threatening
 Diggins lived in the 6200 block of South Aberdeen Street.
Carson was also charged with aggravated battery with a firearm and is due in court Monday. He was arrested Saturday.
Carson has two previous gun arrests, according to court records, both of which were cases that involved guilty pleas.
In Nov. 2012, he was charged with unlawful use of a weapon and criminal trespass to a vehicle. He pleaded guilty to some charges the next month, was sentenced to one year in prison and credit for 30 days of time served. He was paroled from Vandalia Correctional Center in May of this year, according to Illinois Department of Corrections records.
In Feb. 2010, Carson was charged with unlawful use of a weapon, not having a firearm owner identification card and having an unregistered firearm. He was sentenced to community service and one year of supervision.

2nd son of satan charged in killing of UPS worker on way to 'L'

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A 20-year-old man on parole in a 2009 carjacking is the second person charged in the slaying of a veteran UPS employee who was gunned down in a robbery as he walked to a West Garfield Park "L" stop on his way to work late Tuesday.
Charged Friday afternoon was Derrick Williams, 20, who police said was the gunman who fatally shot Michael Sullivan, 53, as he walked to the Pulaski Green Line "L" stop on his way to work. Earlier Friday, Rayshon Williams, 16, was ordered held on $1 million bond after being charged as an adult with murder Sullivan's slaying.
Tuesday night, Rayshon Williams and a second person--identified Friday evening as Derrick Williams--were driving around the West Side, looking for someone to rob. Derrick Williams was driving the car with a gun in his lap, and the two saw Sulivan walking to the Pulaski Green Line "L" stop.
The younger Williams got out of the car, grabbed Sullivan by the arm and demanded money from him, but Sullivan pulled away from him and kept walking.
Rayshon Williams got back in the car, and the two started driving after Sullivan. Sullivan changed direction to get away from his pursuers, but Derrick Williams stopped the car, went over to Sullivan and shot Sullivan in the face just after 11 p.m. Tuesday.
Officers called to the scene found Sullivan slumped over on his knees on the sidewalk in the 4200 block of West Lake Street and he died at the scene. The shooting was captured on videotape
Rayshon Williams and Derrick Williams were arrested Tuesday when police caught up with them as they rode in the same car they were in when Sullivan was shot, prosecutors said. Officers tried to stop the car, but it took off at high speed, then stopped when it crashed into a squad car. Williams fled the car, but was arrested.
Rayshon Williams admitted to his part in the attack and admitted he knew the driver had a gun before Sullivan was shot.

Rayshon Williams was charged with first-degree murder and robbery, as well as receiving or possessing stolen goods, while Derrick Williams was charged with first-degree murder, attempted robbery and criminal trespass to a vehicle.
Derrick Williams was paroled from prison in May in connection with an aggravated vehicular hijacking that took place about 8:40 p.m. on Nov. 18, 2009, in the 200 block of North Karlov Avenue, according to court and police records. He had been sentenced to serve 7 years. Rayshon Williams is on parole in a juvenile possession of a controlled substance case from 2012 when he was arrested

Paroled felon charged in September murder

A paroled felon accused in a September homicide was ordered held without bail Saturday.
Ramone Palmer, 23, is accused of fatally shooting Brian Rollins on Sept. 12. Prosecutors said Palmer broke into a home in the 10400 block of South Perry Avenue in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side, threatened its occupants with a gun and then chased Rollins out of the house and shot him four times.
Rollins, 34, was found lying unresponsive in a nearby street. .
Palmer, of the 5900 block of South Justine Street, was on parole for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon when Rollins was killed. A week after the shooting, he was ordered back to prison but was paroled again last month.
Palmer was arrested Thursday at his South Side home and charged with first-degree murder. Prosecutors said witnesses identified Palmer as the shooter.

No bail for parolee charged in slaying of teen near 'L' stop

Bail was denied today for a South Side man charged with the shooting death of a teen who was waiting to walk a friend home from an “L” stop on the Green Line.
“I just don’t think there’s a condition of bond that can keep everyone safe,'' said Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. during the hearing for Jerome Brown, 26, who is charged with the murder of Kevin Ambrose, 19.Brown was stopped in a light-colored sedan matching the description of a car used in the shooting of Ambrose in the 4700 block of South Calumet Avenue about 11 p.m. Tuesday.

Brown, who is on parole for aggravated robbery, was charged with first-degree murder after he was identified as the gunman who fired several shots and struck Ambrose

Brown was riding in a car near 48th Street and Prairie Avenue about 11 p.m. when he saw the victim, pulled over and got out of the car.

He went into the trunk to retrieve a weapon and fired shots at Ambrose before getting back into the car and driving away.

Later Brown told a friend about the murder, and about 90 minutes later he and at least one other friend drove past the crime scene and a witness spotted the car, leading to his arrest.

Brown later tested positive for gunshot residue

Parolee charged with abducting, assaulting woman

Alex, of the 300 block of West 92nd Street in Chicago, shook his head in court as Criminal Court Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. denied bail.

“There is no amount of money I can set to keep the world safe from you,” Bourgeois told the burly defendant.

Prosecutors said the victim had left her Dodge Caravan unlocked about 6:15 a.m. while she went into a gas station in the 10700 block of Indianapolis Boulevard in Hammond to pay for gas, coffee and cigarettes. Alex climbed into the backseat of the vehicle and hid until the woman returned and drove away, according to prosecutors.

“As the victim was driving, she noticed movement in the rear of her vehicle,” Assistant State’s Attorney Joell Zahr said.

Alex, wearing a black ski mask, varsity-style jacket and a Chicago Bulls hooded sweatshirt, climbed into the seat directly behind her and ordered her to keep driving,” Zahr said. He also threatened to stab and kill her if she ignored his commands or “made any sudden movements,” she said.

A parolee hid in a woman’s van as she paid for gas at a northwest Indiana filling station last month, forced her to drive into Chicago and sexually assaulted and robbed her.
Deverick Alex, 22, was charged with aggravated kidnapping, robbery and aggravated criminal sexual assault in the March 22 attack on the 26-year-old mother who was on her way to work in Evergreen Park
Alex raped the victim after directing her to drive into an alley in the 9500 block of South Colfax Avenue on Chicago’s South Side. During the attack the woman begged Alex not to hurt her because she wanted to make it home to her son.
He then forced her to drive to a nearby gas station and withdraw $140 in cash. Alex found the woman’s address on her driver’s license and threatened to kill her and her son if she ever told anyone what happened.
After the woman withdrew the money, Alex used her cell phone to call two acquaintances, then got out of the van near 89th Street and Lowe Avenue and fled with her phone, money and a gold ring. The woman immediately called police and was taken to St. Bernard Hospital.
Zahr said surveillance video from the gas station in Hammond showed Alex inside the store shortly before the kidnapping dressed in the same clothing described by the victim. Phone records confirmed the numbers dialed from the woman’s cell phone matched acquaintances of Alex. One of those witnesses identified Alex “by name” as the person who called her.
Alex also made admissions to a second witness.
Court records show an arrest warrant was issued for Alex earlier this week and that he turned himself in to police at the Calumet District station Tuesday.
At the time of the attack, Alex was on parole for a 2007 carjacking and armed robbery conviction for which he was sentenced to 8 years in prison, records show. Alex was 16 years old when he pointed a gun at a motorist and took his wallet and vehicle, telling the victim he would kill him if he told anyone.

Man on parole for trying to shoot at police arrested in carjacking

 

A 31-year-old man on parole for trying to shoot at police in 2003 was arrested early Thursday morning after carjacking one woman and trying to rob another on the West Side.
Artavis Johnson, of the 100 block of North Laramie Avenue in the South Austin neighborhood, is due in court today in connection with the attempted robbery and carjacking..
Police said Johnson carjacked a woman’s Chevy Equinox in the 3800 block of West Maypole Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood about 11:30 p.m. Wednesay. A couple minutes later, he tried to rob a woman a few in the 3400 block of West Arthington Street Street in the Homan Square neighborhood, across the street from the Homan Square police station.
The Equinox Johnson’s accused of stealing had OnStar and the company was able to tell police the car was in the 1200 block of South Fairfield Avenue in the Douglas Park neighborhood.
Johnson’s girlfriend lives on the block and police spotted him walking when they arrived.
He was arrested and later admitted to throwing the gun off in a park, and the gun was never found. He was charged with aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm and armed robbery with a firearm.
Johnson was convicted numerous felonies after he went on a crime spree in 2003 that ended with him trying to shoot a police officer.
While running from officers who stopped the car, which had been reported stolen, he pointed a gun at police and squeezed the trigger. The gun didn’t fire.

Johnson was sentenced to 16 years in prison for armed robbery, 12 years for aggravated vehicular hijacking with a weapon, five years for being a felon in possession of a firearm and three years for aggravated assault of a police officer with a firearm.
He was released from Illinois Department of Corrections custody in July 2012 and he was scheduled to have his parole discharged in July 2014.
Before the 2003 spree, Johnson was sentenced to 42 months in prison in 2002 for possession of narcotics and 2 years in prison in 2000 for the same charge.

Another parolee charged after 3 officers hurt during pursuit

A 17-year-old parolee who led police on a chase early this morning that injured three officers has been arrested and charged.
Eric Samuels, of the 600 block of East 131st Street, was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet at the time of this morning's chase. He also had been wanted on a parole violation warrant stemming from a gun-related arrest in February of 2012
He was arrested after police spotted a black 2001 Dodge Intrepid with a broken taillight at about 2:25 a.m. driving near the 400 block of East 69th Street and pulled the car over.
As police were walking up to the car, they noticed that the steering column was stripped and a screwdriver was sticking out of the ignition lock, police said. Samuels then sped off, with police in pursuit.
Other officers spotted the vechicle and pulled it over, police said. During the chase, three officers were injured in a traffic accident.
After the stolen car was stopped, Samuels jumped out of the car with a jacket wrapped around his hand and tried to flee on foot.
When police tried to stop him, the man struggled and police then found that he was holding a gun in his hand. They recovered a loaded 9 mm handgun with a defaced serial number. Police also said they found two fully loaded 15-round magazines and 38 additional 9 mm rounds on him.
The pursuit continued into an alley, where the squad car crashed into an apartment building on 73rd Street between St. Lawrence and Rhodes avenues.
The driver was taken into custody in the 7200 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue.
One of the officers was treated for a broken wrist, nose and ankle. The second officer suffered a laceration to the left leg and the third officer sustained injuries to the neck, back and legs. All were considered non-life threatening injuries.
Samuels was charged with a felony possession of a firearm with a defaced serial number, unlawful use of a weapon, aggravated fleeing, possession of a stolen motor vehicle and a misdemeanor charge of assaulting a police officer.

Police see burglary, catch suspect

A West Side man already on parole for burglary was arrested when Chicago police on an unrelated investigation saw him steal a TV from a West Side home.
Officers assigned to the Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force were on the 1200 block of North Austin Boulevard at 2:20 p.m. Wednesday when they saw two men leave a residence and run from the scene, one carrying a flat-screen TV covered by a yellow sheet.
The task force members radioed in to Grand Central District officers, who after a short foot chase arrested Tavarris White, 20, of the 1100 block of North Mason Avenue.
The second suspect was not found, and personal items taken from the home, including the TV,  were not recovered. The task force officers were able to identify White at the scene after the arrest.
White, who is on parole for a burglary conviction

Parolee arrested after cops see him shoot gun near Orange Line stop

A Brighton Park man already on parole in an attemped murder case faces new gun-related charges after beat officers saw him firing a gun near his home Thursday night.
Edgar Jasso, 29, faces charges of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and reckless discharge of a firearm and has been charged with violating his parole for a 2005 attempted murder.
Chicago Lawn District officers were patrolling near Jasso’s home in the 4800 block of South Kedzie Avenue about 9:45 p.m. Thursday when they saw him standing in a doorway of his home, firing a handgun several times into the street.
When he saw the officers, Jasso ran into his home and locked the door. Police surrounded his home, which is less than a block from the CTA Orange Line's Kedzie stop, but Jasso surrendered after about 20 minutes.
Two handguns were found when police searched Jasso’s home.
Jasso was convicted of an attempted murder that took place May 12, 2005, in the 5100 block of South Ada Street, about 6:15 p.m.. He was sentenced to six years in prison in 2005, but after being paroled once, was sent back to prison following his arrest on a reckless conduct charge last spring. He was released on parole again in September

'Relentless' investigation ties parolee to shooting, robbery

Michael Steven Gay, 21, appeared in court Saturday where a judge denied bail.
Gay, of the 200 block of West 95th Street, was charged with one count each of attempted first-degree murder, armed robbery and aggravated battery. Gay also was wanted on a warrant for a probation violation.
On Nov. 25, 2012, officers responded to a call of shots fired on the 2700 block of East 80th Street just before 1:30 a.m., and found a 19-year-old man on the lower stairwell inside a residence with multiple gunshot wounds.
The victim was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County for treatment.
Area South detectives learned attackers entered the building and robbed the victim before shooting the man several times and fleeing the scene.
“Relentless investigation’’ by detectives led to the positive identification of Gay as one of the attackers. Information was given to officers in the Fugitive Apprehension Section, who found Gay Friday morning in the 200 block of West 95th Street.

Gay was released on parole on June 3, 2011, after being sentenced to 4 years in Illinois Department of Corrections for an aggravated robbery conviction, according to IDOC

Man tried to rob 3, then held woman hostage, abused her

A Markham man previously convicted of sex assault has been charged with trying to rob three women at a salon, then holding a woman hostage and Friday night in a South Side salon.
Byron K. Moore, 49, faces charges of aggravated kidnapping, sexual abuse, attempted sex assault, unlawful restraint and attempted robbery in the attacks that started about 6:45 p.m. Friday in the 3100 block of South Archer Avenue.
The incident began about 7:25 p.m. when the man went into the salon on the 3100 block of South Archer Avenue in the McKinley Park neighborhood.
After the man went into the salon, he complained that he was owed money, tried to rob the three women and took the 40-year-old woman hostage. Moore held the woman in a back room and sexually abused her.
Police were called to the scene and eventually forced their way inside the business.
The man had tried to sexually assault the woman, who was taken to an area hospital for observation.
Moore, of the 16200 block of South Laflin Avenue in Markham, is a registered sex offender. He pleaded guilty in a 1997 home invasion and aggravated criminal sexual assault case and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, according to court records. 

Man captured who shot at 5 cops on Far South Side

A man paroled two months earlier on two weapons charges traded gunfire with police in the West Pullman neighborhood after forcing a woman with three young children in her SUV to drive him about a mile from his home.
Anthony Maltbia, 21, was ordered held without bail on charges of attempted murder of five police officers prosecutors say he fired upon, as well as aggravated discharge of a firearm and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon.
Cook County Criminal Court Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. refused to grant Maltbia bail after Assistant State’s Atty. Farrah Brass argued that the shootings about 5 p.m. June 14 in the 10500 block of South State Street took place in a residential area, and Maltbia forced the woman to drive him, even though she had her children in the SUV.
Maltbia was arrested on Tuesday hiding in the ductwork at a home in the 9100 block of South Harvard Avenue. Police and the FBI searched for Maltbia for several months after he disappeared from his home in the 10500 block of South LaSalle Street following the shooting incident.
One June 14, Maltbia forced the woman to drive him to the 11600 block of South Princeton Avenue. There, witnesses saw him walk toward Yale Avenue, with a gun in his waistband, then heard gunshots.
Maltbia got back in the SUV and ordered the woman to drive away, and the SUV was followed by two officers in a police vehicle until Maltbia jumped out near 106th and State streets. Once out of the car, Maltbia pointed his gun at one arriving officer, then fired at the first two officers who were following him.
Maltbia ran through a vacant lot to near 10544 S. Lafayette Ave., stopped and pointed his gun, then shot once at two other officers in a marked squad car, then fired on a fifth officer who was chasing him on foot, who then returned fire.
Maltbia made it to the home where he was registered for his parole and electronic monitoring, but left before police were able to search the home.
While he was evading capture, Maltbia told other people he had shot at police. After a parole violation and an investigative alert were lodged against Maltbia, investigators found him on Tuesday. Video from a squad car captured part of the incident, and victims and several witnesses identified him in lineups.
At the time he traded gunfire with police, Maltbia was on parole for convictions in gun-related cases from 2009 and 2010. He had been released on parole in April, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections.

4 in custody following South Side drive-by

Chicago police had four people in custody following a drive-by shooting that injured a man in the Washington Park neighborhood.
The 32-year-old victim was shot in the 6200 block of South Michigan Avenue shortly after midnight.
The victim was taken to Stroger Hospital for a gunshot wound to the abdomen, but his condition wasn't immediately known.
A Chicago police officer happened to be in the area and quickly pursued the green van with several occupants seen fleeing the area.
Police followed the van into a the Englewood neighborhood and radioed to officers in the Englewood police district regarding the pursuit. One of the van's occupants bailed out of the van, but was quickly arrested.
The van continued on but later crashed. Police later arrested three men near Kennedy-King College.
Witnesses at the scene of the shooting positively identified at least three of the male suspects as the men in the van and police also recovered a handgun.
At least one of the men was on parole and had two prior convictions for unlawful use of a weapon

Parolee accused in weekend slaying

A South Side man out on parole for attempted murder is accused with fatally shooting another man in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
Anthony Smith, 26, was charged with first-degree murder in the Sunday morning slaying of Hansen Jackson.
After hearing gunshots near the intersection of Chicago and Ridgeway avenues just before 2 a.m. Sunday, police officers actually saw Smith fire multiple shots at the 29-year-old victim.
The officers arrested Smith after a blocklong foot chase and recovered a handgun.
Jackson, 29, of the 1500 block of South 61st Court in Cicero, was struck multiple times and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Smith, of the 9000 block of South Wallace Street, had been out on parole since last November from the Robinson Correctional Center following a 2007 conviction for attempted first-degree murder, according to court and state records.
After pleading guilty, Smith was sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to serve 85 percent of his sentence, but he was credited with 621 days served in Cook County Jail leading up to the trial, records show

Parolee rams officers' vehicle in escape attempt

A man on parole was arrested after he rammed a police vehicle with a stolen minivan in Englewood to avoid capture.
The incident happened at about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday on the 7000 block of South Normal Avenue and resulted in two female police officers being treated and released from Little Company of Mary Hospital.
Darius Mosley, 23, of the 6900 block of South Normal Avenue, who was driving the minivan, was charged with two counts of aggravated battery to a police officer, aggravated fleeing an accident causing bodily injury and possession of a stolen vehicle. He was also wanted on a warrant for a parole violation.
He was also ticketed for driving without a license, failure to stop at a stop sign and not using a turn signal.

The Englewood District officers on patrol tried to stop a 1995 Chrysler minivan for a traffic violation, and when they ran the license plate of the vehicle they discovered that the van was reported stolen, Mirabelli said.

When the police tried to pull the van over Mosley attempted to flee and struck another police vehicle assisting the original officers, Mirabelli said.

The van accelerated and struck the police vehicle on the driver's side and injured the two female officers in the second police vehicle, police said. The van also struck two parked cars, Mirabelli said.

Mosley then jumped from the van and police pursued him before taking him into custody about a block away, Mirabelli said.

The man was apprehended on the 6900 block of South Normal Avenue, doors away from his home,

Paroled felon shot himself, faces new charge (Now that's justice)

A felon on parole for a 2010 gun conviction shot himself in the leg late Friday night.
Police said Armando Gutierrez, 25, lied about the incident and was then charged with felony disorderly conduct for lying to police and violating his parole.
Police were looking to charge him with unlawful use of a weapon but couldn't find his gun, according to a department source.
Gutierrez told responding officers someone shot at him from across the street while he was standing near his home on the 1000 block of North Christiana Avenue about 8 p.m.
He was taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where he changed his story and told police he accidentally shot himself.
He was arrested and taken into custody after being treated for his wound and is expected in bond court Saturday.
Gutierrez was previously convicted for unlawful use of a weapon by a gang member and sentenced to three years in prison on July 16, 2010, according to Illinois Department of Corrections records.
He was paroled on Sept. 23, 2011, according to IDOC