A man was shot Saturday night in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
About 10:10 p.m., the 35-year-old was walking in the 10000 block of South State Street when two males walked up and fired shots in his direction, according to Chicago Police.
The man was shot in the left hand and taken to Roseland Community Hospital, where his condition was stabilized, police said.
A man was shot Sunday evening in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
The 37-year-old suffered a graze wound to the head about 6:30 p.m. in the 10000 block of South Princeton, according to Chicago Police.
He later walked into MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island, where he was treated and released, police said.
After a 10-hour standoff Thursday, Chicago SWAT officers stormed a South Side home to find a man dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
Police said about 9 a.m., Kevin Robinson fired a dozen shots at SWAT team officers who had taken up positions outside a home in the 10300 block of South Union, prompting the officers to return fire. Robinson had been on the phone with a police hostage negotiator moments before opening fire on officers from a second-floor window.
It was the last communication officers would have with Robinson, who police said had killed three people at a home in Lawndale about 10 hours earlier.
In the hours that followed, SWAT officers blocked streets in the surrounding neighborhood for hours and warned neighbors to hide in their basements. Over a bullhorn, a hostage negotiator played a recorded message from Robinson’s mother, who waited, out of sight, with relatives. Starting around noon, police began launching canisters of tear gas into the house.
“Kevin, it’s your mother. Come outside. I love you. Please come out,” the plaintive voice of Robinson’s mother, Linda McPherson, said on a recording that played throughout the late morning and early afternoon over a police bullhorn. “Don’t bring out any weapons and put your hands up. . . . please, think about it.”
When SWAT officers kicked in the door about 1 p.m., they found Robinson dead in the same bedroom from which he had fired on police, a gun in his hand, CPD Deputy Chief Steve Georgas told reporters. Robinson had suffered an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Georgas said. It was not clear if Robinson was struck by the barrage of return fire from SWAT officers as well, Georgas said.
A Friday autopsy ruled Robinson’s death a suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
On Wednesday night, police said, Robinson shot the mother of one of his children, 26-year-old Makeesha Starks; her sister, Kiara Kinard; and her stepfather Jerome T. Wright, 50, at a home in the 1500 block of West 71st Street.
Chicago police were stationed on Union Avenue south of 103rd Street, where a person of interest in a triple homicide was in a house, surrounded by officers. | Andy Grimm/Sun-Times
Wright, of the 1500 block of West 74th Street; and Starks, who lived on the block where the shooting happened, were both shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
Kinard, of the 7700 block of South Seeley, was shot in the back and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she died at 2:37 a.m., authorities said.
Both sisters worked on the Rush University Medical Center campus, a spokesman said. Kinard was a part-time employee of the hospital, while Starks worked at the Au Bon Pain restaurant at Rush, spokesman John Pontarelli said.
“The Rush community is deeply saddened by this tragedy,” he said in a statement.
Wright worked for the Traffic Management Authority division of OEMC as a traffic control aide.
“Jerome Wright was a valued employee of the Office of Emergency Management and Communications since 2008,” a statement from the agency said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family during this difficult time.”
Not long after SWAT officers emerged from the house, Robinson’s sister, Kedra, huddled with family in an alley across the street. Kedra Robinson said she had rushed to the house early Thursday and had spent the day waiting with family hoping Robinson would leave the house unharmed.
Kedra Robinson said Starks had been “like a sister” to her, and that she did not know whether her brother had killed anyone. Her version of how her brother died differed starkly from the police account of the standoff. She said Kevin Robinson was on the phone with his mother, preparing to surrender, when he was shot.
“They was trying to kill him instead of trying to bring him in,” Robinson told reporters, as a woman who said she was Starks’ sister tried to shout her down.
“I’m not gonna argue with you all, y’all lost a loved one, I lost a loved one,” Robinson shouted back. “They have to have hard evidence to link anybody to any type of murder.”
Police investigate after two people were killed and a third was critically wounded in a shooting Wednesday night in Englewood. | Network Video Productions
Guglielmi said Robinson had fled to the South Union house, in the city’s Ferndale neighborhood, to hide out with a former girlfriend with whom he also had a child. The woman let him in, but called police after Robinson fell asleep. Officers from the 22nd District sneaked the woman and her child out of the house sometime after 3 a.m., and then called in SWAT officers.
The Independent Police Review Authority will review the case, Guglielmi said. The SWAT team was deployed more than 1,000 times in the last four years, and only four suspects
were killed, Guglielmi said.
After SWAT officers surrounded the house, negotiators tried to reach Robinson by phone and loudspeaker, Georgas said.
“We did have a short conversation with him, he did answer a phone,” he said. “That conversation did not go anywhere. It was shortly after that where he appeared at the window and fired 10 to 12 shots at our officers.”
Linda McPherson, Robinson’s mother, had arrived at the South Union house from her home in Hammond, Indiana, early Thursday morning, and spent the day waiting with police, said family spokesman Eric Russell.
Family members offered to approach the house and try to get Robinson to give up, but police refused their help. In a version of events that differed starkly from the police account of the stand off, Russell told reporters that Robinson was on the phone with her son — Russell said he did not know for sure what time — and had told her he wanted to surrender to police, when she heard gunshots and another man’s voice, Russell said.
“She unfortunately did hear her son take his last breaths,” Russell said, noting the family had hired an attorney.
“They say he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Russell said. “Quite frankly, the family simply is not buying that narrative.”
A 30-year-old man was shot and wounded early Tuesday on the Far South Side.
The man was shot in the shoulder by a man who walked up to him around 1:45 a.m. as he stood outside in the 10200 block of South LaSalle Street in Fernwood, according to the police, who said the man was treated at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
A 17-year-old boy was found fatally shot in the Fernwood neighborhood Tuesday afternoon on the Far South Side.
He was shot in the chest about 4 p.m. inside a home in the 10200 block of South Normal and pronounced dead at the scene, according to Chicago Police.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office confirmed the death but did not immediately have more details.
Police said the wound might have been accidentally self-inflicted. Area South detectives are conducting a death investigation.
A woman was killed and another person was critically injured in a pin-in crash Tuesday evening in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Shortly before 7 p.m., 48-year-old Michelle Moore was a passenger in a vehicle turning left onto South State Street from East 103rd Street, when it was T-boned by a vehicle traveling west on 103rd, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
She and the driver were both pinned in the vehicle, fire officials said.
Moore, who lived in the 10300 block of South Wallace, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she was pronounced dead at 8:15 p.m., authorities said.
The driver, whose age and gender were not disclosed, was taken to Christ Medical Center in critical condition, fire officials said. No other injuries were reported.
The police Major Accidents Investigation Unit is investigating the crash.
A security guard handcuffed a learning-disabled 6-year-old girl under a staircase at her Far South Side school earlier this year, a federal lawsuit alleges.
When Marlena Wordlow came to check on her daughter after she became sick on March 18 at Fernwood Elementary School, 10041 S. Union Ave., the guard told her he had cuffed the first-grader and was “teaching her a f—g lesson,” according to the suit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court.
The Chicago Board of Education is listed as defendant in the suit along with the security guard, who has not been arrested nor charged with a crime, according to Chicago Police. He has since been fired, with a “do not hire” flag on his personnel file, Chicago Public Schools communications director Emily Bittner said in an email Thursday night.
The girl’s special education teacher called Wordlow about 10:30 a.m. to let her know her daughter had vomited, but was feeling better, according to the suit. Wordlow went to the school that afternoon to drop off money for another child, and then stopped by her daughter’s classroom to check on her.
She was met by another teacher and the guard, who led her down a stairwell to where the girl — “crying, sweating, and visibly scared” — had her hands cuffed behind her back, the suit claims. Wordlow told them to free her daughter and then called police, the suit says.
“The safety and well-being of our students is vitally important to the District, and we take these allegations seriously,” Bittner said. “Once the incident came to light, the District immediately took the appropriate steps to address this situation and ensure our students’ safety.”
The six-count lawsuit claims the guard used excessive force and falsely imprisoned the girl. Wordlow is seeking an unspecified amount in damages.
A man was killed in a shooting late Wednesday in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Officers responding about 11:50 p.m. to reports of a person down in the 10500 block of South Wentworth arrived to find the 28-year-old man lying face-down on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the head, according to Chicago Police. He was dead at the scene.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office confirmed the death but could not immediately provide further details early Thursday.
A police source said the man was a documented gang member.
Red police tape cordoned off the intersection of West 105th Place and South Wentworth. The man’s body could be seen on the front step of a small apartment building on the corner.
One neighbor, Barbara Banks, said she was asleep when she heard 4-5 shots. “I heard pow, pow, pow, pow, and then went to the floor and called the police.”
Chalone Finley, who said she was the man’s sister, stood next to her husband on the side of the apartment building, directly around the corner from the scene. Her daughter sat on a stoop crying.
Five to six other family members could be seen standing by her. “He’s gone,” one woman kept crying over the phone.
A boy looks onto the crime scene late Wednesday. | Daniel Brown/Sun-Times
Finley said she found out about the shooting when her brother’s girlfriend came to her house and told her.
“She was hysterical…I didn’t know what to think,” she said. “I still don’t know what to think because I don’t want to believe it.”
She said her brother was a good person and that “he would do anything for you.”
“I’m really sick of the violence,” Finley said. “Everybody’s losing their loved ones each and every day for no reason.”
She walked around the corner, under the police tape and in view of her brother’s body. She put her hand over her mouth and began to cry before she turned around and walked away. “Lord have mercy,” a man who consoled her said repeatedly.
Neighbors stand by the crime scene tape at a homicide late Wednesday in Fernwood. | Daniel Brown/Sun-Times
A man crashed a vehicle into another vehicle — seriously injuring an infant and a child — while driving himself to the hospital after getting shot Sunday in the Far South Side Fernwood neighborhood.
The 30-year-old was shot in the abdomen about 12:05 p.m. while driving in the 10100 block of South State, according to Chicago Police. As he was driving himself to the hospital, he crashed into another vehicle carrying four people.
The man was taken in serious condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, as were a 1-month-old boy and 24-year-old woman in the other car, according to the Chicago Fire Department. A 6-year-old girl and 45-year-old woman were taken to Roseland Community Hospital in fair-to-serious condition.
Two men were wounded in a Fernwood neighborhood shooting early Monday on the Far South Side.
The men, ages 18 and 19, were sitting in the back of a vehicle about 12:55 a.m. parked in the 10100 block of South Princeton when another male walked up and opened fire, according to Chicago Police.
The 18-year-old suffered gunshot wounds to the back, torso and left leg, while the older man was shot in the right leg, police said. They were both taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where their conditions were stabilized.
Six people were displaced early Sunday after three houses caught fire in the Far South Side Fernwood neighborhood.
The houses caught fire at 5:32 a.m. in the 10500 block of South Perry, according to Fire Media Affairs. It was put out about 6:20 a.m.
No injuries were reported, but six adults were displaced, fire officials said. The cause was under investigation Sunday morning.
Three houses caught fire early Sunday in Fernwood. | Chicago Fire Department
A 30-year-old man was shot early Saturday in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
About 12:30 a.m., the man was inside a vehicle in the 10100 block of South State Street when he began to struggle with a male who shot in him in the right thigh, according to Chicago Police.
He was taken to Roseland Community Hospital where his condition was stabilized, police said.
The victim is a documented gang member, police said.
A man was shot in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side Tuesday night.
The 36-year-old was walking in an alley in the 300 block of West 103rd Street about 7:25 p.m. when he heard gunshots and felt pain, police said.
He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition stabilized, police said.
A man was critically wounded in a shooting Sunday evening in the Far South Side Fernwood neighborhood.
The 19-year-old was on the sidewalk about 6:45 p.m. in the 200 block of West 107th Street when someone walked up and shot him in the back, according to Chicago Police.
He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, police said.
Two men were wounded in separate Fernwood neighborhood shootings that happened within three minutes and three blocks of each other Friday afternoon on the Far South Side.
At 2:22 p.m., a 30-year-old man was sitting in a car parked near 105th Street and Wentworth when someone got out of another vehicle nearby and opened fire, hitting him in the arm, according to Chicago Police. The man was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition was stabilized, police said.
At 2:25 p.m., officers responded to a call of a person shot at 102nd and Wentworth and found a 25-year-old with a gunshot wound to the right side of the chest. The man had been standing in front of a home when he heard gunfire. He was taken to Christ in serious “but stable condition,” police said.
There was “no indication” that the shootings were related, police News Affairs Officer Thomas Sweeney said. Area South detectives are investigating.
Two teenagers were wounded in a Fernwood neighborhood shooting Saturday night on the Far South Side.
The teengs, ages 15 and 17, were walking about 9:40 p.m. in the 10500 block of South Wallace when someone in a black vehicle nearby opened fire, according to Chicago Police.
The 17-year-old was shot in the back and taken in serious condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said. The younger boy suffered a gunshot wound to the left thigh and was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
A man was shot in the Far South Side Fernwood neighborhood on Saturday afternoon.
About 4:40 p.m., the 42-year-old was sitting in a parked vehicle in the 10200 block of South Eggleston when he heard gunshots and felt pain, according to Chicago Police. He suffered a gunshot wound to his neck.
He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where his condition was not immediately known, police said.
One of four victims killed in a Far South Side shooting that may have been the result of a home invasion or robbery at a “dope house” has been identified.
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 Officer Jose Estrada, a Chicago Police Department spokesman. But it wasn’t clear just when the shooting happened.
Four people were found dead with gunshot wounds: a 41-year-old woman, a 19-year-old woman, a 45-year-old man and a 36-year-old man, according to police. Three were found inside the home, and one of the women was found outside.
The 45-year-old man has been identified as Scott Travis Thompson of the first block of Kempton Drive in Romeoville, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The names of the other three victims have not been released.
A fifth victim, an 18-year-old woman found outside, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she remained in critical condition. Detectives had not interviewed her as of Sunday evening, police said.
A 2-year-old boy was also in the house. He was unharmed and was taken to Roseland Community Hospital for observation.
“The investigation has revealed people in the home were selling potential narcotics out that home earlier in the day,” police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. “And we believe individuals returned to rob occupants in that home.
“Detectives said they have very optimistic leads,” Guglielmi said, adding that police recovered substances that appeared to be illegal narcotics from the home.
“It’s known that people in the home knew their attackers,” Guglielmi said, adding that no weapon has been found.
Police initially thought the shooting may have stemmed from a domestic situation, but they walked the theory back as more evidence came to light.
Saturday’s shooting was the third time in 24 hours in Chicago in which at least four people were shot in a single incident.
More than 750 people have been killed so far this year, Chicago’s deadliest since the late 1990s.
Four people killed in a Far South Side shooting that may have been the result of a home invasion or robbery at a “dope house” have been identified.
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 Officer Jose Estrada, a Chicago Police Department spokesman. 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 Cook County 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. Detectives had not interviewed her as of Sunday evening, police said.
A 2-year-old boy was also in the house. He was unharmed and was taken to Roseland Community Hospital for observation.
“The investigation has revealed people in the home were selling potential narcotics out that home earlier in the day,” police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. “And we believe individuals returned to rob occupants in that home.
“Detectives said they have very optimistic leads,” Guglielmi said, adding that police recovered substances that appeared to be illegal narcotics from the home.
“It’s known that people in the home knew their attackers,” Guglielmi said, adding that no weapon has been found.
Police initially thought the shooting may have stemmed from a domestic situation, but they walked the theory back as more evidence came to light.
Saturday’s shooting was the third time in 24 hours in Chicago in which at least four people were shot in a single incident.
More than 750 people have been killed so far this year, Chicago’s deadliest since the late 1990s.
A man was shot early Wednesday in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
The 20-year-old was walking about 12:50 a.m. in the 10100 block of South Parnell when he heard gunfire and realized he’d been shot in the left leg, according to Chicago Police.
He was taken to Roseland Community Hospital, where his condition was stabilized, police said.
