Country Club Hills man shot, killed in Chatham neighborhood

 43-year-old south suburban man was found dead in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood after being shot multiple times, according to authorities.
A spokesman for the Cook County medical examine's office said Darryl McWilliams, of the 17900 block of Edwards Avenue in Country Club Hills, suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his body.
Chicago police found him dead outside on the 8600 block of South Vernon Avenue at 3 a.m.
BEAT 632

Weapon found after shots fired at police on South Side

Gunshots were fired in the direction of Chicago police officers late this afternoon as they were breaking a up a fight in the South Side's Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
No officers were hurt, and none of them returned fire.
The officers responded to a call of a "battery in progress" about 5:20 p.m. near West 78th and South Ada Streets, about a block west of Saint Sabina Catholic Church, to break up a scuffle between a group of girls.
As they responded to that call, shots were fired in their direction from down the street.
They said it's unclear whether any officers were targeted, and are looking into the possibility that the gunman was aiming for someone else.
A TEC-9 gun, believed to be the weapon used during the shooting, was found near the scene.
BEAT 612

Man shot in Gresham neighborhood

Another man was shot in the leg near 83rd and Morgan streets in the Gresham neighborhood about 12:20 a.m..
BEAT 613

24 YR SHOT DEAD

A 24-year-old man was shot and killed near 76th Street and Wolcott Avenue in the city’s Gresham neighborhood Thursday night.
Police found the man, identified by the Cook County medical examiner's office as Phillip Cartledge unresponsive at about 9:40 p.m.,
BEAT 611

Chatham store owner shot in attempted holdup

A convenience store owner was recovering late Wednesday after he was shot inside his Chatham neighborhood store during an attempted holdup.
The 66-year-old owner was shot once in the groin by one of two masked bandits who entered the business in the 400 block of East 79th Street at around 7:20 p.m.,.
After shooting the man, the two thieves ran out of the store without getting any cash.
The man was taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition. Police said there were no surveillance cameras inside the store
Police only had a vague description of the masked men.
BEAT 624

4 wounded in Gresham neighborhood shooting

Four people were wounded this morning in a street shooting in the city's Gresham neighborhood on the South Side, police said.
The shooting happened about 12:50 a.m. on the 1600 block of West 79th Street, said Police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer.
The victims told police they were leaving a food mart when someone began shooting.  The gunman apparently was part of a group of three men.
A 27-year-old woman suffered a graze wound to the foot and was taken in good condition to Holy Cross Hospital. An 18-year-old man, suffered a graze wound to his back. He was also taken in good condition to Holy Cross. A 23-year-old man was shot in the left thigh and foot and was taken in stable condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.  A 25-year-old man suffered a wound to his upper leg and was taken to Christ Medical Center where his condition has stabilized, police said.
Police making a traffic stop nearby heard the shots, saw the victims running toward them and came to their aid.
BEAT 611

18-year-old woman shot in Chatham

The shooting occurred on the 8200 block of South Ingleside Avenue in the city's East Chatham neighborhood.
Preliminary reports stated an 18-year-old woman suffered a wound to her arm.
BEAT 631

18-year-old man shot in Chatham neighborhood

At about 6:30 p.m., an 18-year-old man was shot on the 8000 block of South Stewart Avenue in the city's West Chatham neighborhood.
 The man was taken in serious-to-critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn
BEAT 621

Man shoots at off-duty Police Officer,but misses and hits Officer's friend instead in Chatham neighborhood

An off-duty Chicago police officer managed to avoid being hit by gunfire in the Chatham neighborhood early this morning but a friend with him was hit,.
The two were outside a residence in the 7500 block of South Wabash Avenue about 2:20 a.m. when a gunman opened fire on the pair.
The officer returned fire but missed.
It was not clear if the site of the shooting was the officer's home.
The officer's friend, described as an adult male, was shot in the shoulder and taken to an area hospital in "stable" condition.
UPDATE: An off-duty Chicago Police officer returned fire at a suspect who shot and wounded the officer’s friend outside a South Side tavern early Thursday in the Park Manor neighborhood.

The officer chased down two suspects and found one of them reportedly hiding in a garbage can.

Two men are in custody after the incident, which happened about 2:30 a.m. in the 7500 block of South Wabash Avenue.

The incident unfolded as the men were standing outside Willa’s Fifty Yard Line at 69 E. 75th St., Gresham District Police Lt. Paula Schmeer said.

An off-duty officer and a friend were outside when a man approached and fired shots, striking the officer’s friend, Greer said. The officer returned fire, but did not hit anyone.

“It was all about a song the DJ was supposed to play,’’ according to the lieutenant.

Someone asked the DJ multiple times when he was going to play a certain song and that person was punched in the nose in the bar prior to the shooting, according to Schmeer.

Outside, the son of the person punched allegedly tried to shoot the DJ, but instead accidentally hit the officer’s friend, who was standing next to the DJ, according to the lieutenant. The officer was not the DJ.

The suspects ran south on Wabash but the officer gave chase and apprehended them a short time later, according to the lieutenant

BEAT 623

Man shot multiple times in East Chatham neighborhood

A man was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds this morning in the East Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.
Police found the 23-year-old man lying in the 900 block of East 85th Street just after midnight, police said.
He was shot in the abdomen, wrist and groin and was taken to Stroger Hospital in stable condition
BEAT 632

Off-duty cop shoots suspect IN Gresham

The shooting occured at 8133 South Dobson near  UPS distribution center, at about 9 a.m..
Early uncomfirmed reports say the offender struck the Officer in the head and the Officer then shot him.
After being wounded, the offender managed to escape.
Police described the perpetrator as a black man with a medium complexion, wearing a red shirt. The offender may have dropped his ID at the scene of the shooting.
BEAT 631

20-year-old man was shot in the Park Manor neighborhood

A 20-year-old man was also shot in the leg at 1:26 a.m. in the 700 block of East 75th Street in the Park Manor neighborhood on the South Side.
He was on the sidewalk when a male gunman approached on foot, fired shots and then got away in a white car. The victim was in stable condition at Stroger.
BEAT 624

Man shot to death in South side drive-by

A 20-year-old man died after being wounded in a drive-by shooting down the block from his home in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side this morning.

Darius Jones, 20, of the 8100 block of South Winchester Avenue, was declared dead at 12:15 p.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.

The man identified as Jones was in the 8100 block of South Winchester Avenue when he was shot in a drive-by shooting about 11:05 a.m.

BEAT 614

3 people shot 1 shot dead in West Chatham

The homicide occurred in an incident in which three people were shot about 1:23 a.m. on the 8800 block of South Princeton Avenue in the West Chatham neighborhood on the South Side. According to preliminary reports, a male who sustained a gunshot wound to his chest was found unresponsive at the scene and was transported to Roseland Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:10 a.m..
The man was identified as Rick Szewka, 29, of the 4600 block of North Kimball Avenue.
In the same incident, a 37-year-old woman suffered gunshot wounds to both legs and a 33-year-old woman suffered a gunshot wound to one leg. Both were transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where their conditions had stabilized.
BEAT 634

Man, woman shot on South Side

A man and a woman were seriously injured when they were shot on a porch in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side this evening.
The two were both taken from the 7900 block of South Hermitage Avenue for treatment to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in serious-to-critical condition, according to the Chicago Fire Department.
The woman, 53, and man, 33, were sitting on the porch when shots rang out and they realized they had been shot. The woman was shot in the hand and shoulder.
BEAT 611

Man shot in Gresham neighborhood

A man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center  in critical condition this morning after he was shot in the chest and arm on the South Side in the Gresham neighborhood. The shooting happened about 12:05 a.m..
The victim, about 19 years old, was shot somewhere and collapsed after approaching a group of people in the 8000 block of South Justine Avenue.
BEAT 612

Cops fire shots at carjacking suspect, no one hurt

Chicago police fired shots at an armed carjacking suspect in the city's Burnside neighborhood on the South Side.
No one was struck in the incident that happened at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 800 block of East 89th Place.
Police stopped a vehicle they believe was involved in an earlier  carjacking when an armed man got out and confronted police.
The Gresham District officers weren't able to catch the man, who fled on foot, but did take another man inside the vehicle into custody
BEAT 633

1 dead, 1 wounded, Police attacked in Chatham

A gunman killed a man and seriously wounded a woman in the Chatham neighborhood this afternoon, then exchanged fire with officers before fleeing.
The shooting occurred around 3:30 p.m. near 82nd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue. Three police officers were talking outside a bank near 83rd and Cottage when they saw a man shoot a woman, then open fire on a man in a car.
Police responded to the area and came upon the victims, and saw two attackers fleeing the scene.
One gunman then shot at the officers and they returned fire. The gunman fled in a car and was involved in a crash at 82nd Street and Drexel Avenue.
Shots were fired by police at some point, and the two attackers fled the car near 82nd and Drexel and fled on foot.
Authorities said two people were taken into custody near 86th Street and Ingeside Avenue.
A man in his 20s was pronounced dead on arrival at the Hospital. A woman in her late 20s was taken to the hospital in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the neck.
UPDATE: Kenneth Taylor, 24, of the 8300 bock of South Maryland Avenue in Chicago, and Moneet Baker, 22, of the 8200 block of South Drexel Avenue in Chicago, were the two shooting victims.

UPDATE: Chicago police have charged a Far South Side man in the shooting deaths of two people in the Chatham neighborhood Friday.
David A. Russell, 22, of the 9500 block of South Calumet Avenue in Chicago in the Rosemoor neighborhood, was charged with two counts of first degree murder and two counts of attempted first degree murder in the killings
BEAT 631

Man shot, killed in Chatham

A 26-year-old man was shot to death on a Chatham corner.
The man was at the corner of Cottage Grove Avenue at 79th Street about 3:30 a.m. when he was shot.
He suffered multiple gunshot wounds, from assailants unknown.
UPDATE: Victim identified as Maurice Thomas
BEAT 624

Man, 25, shot in head in Gresham neighborhood

A man was seriously injured in a shooting in the South Side Gresham neighborhood, police said this morning.
The 25-year-old man was standing on the corner in the 8000 block of South Racine Avenue around 10 p.m. Tuesday when a gunman inside a dark-colored vehicle pulled up and opened fire, police said, citing early reports.
The man was struck in the head and taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition.
BEAT 612