A man was shot to death Saturday evening in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
At 4:53 p.m., 21-year-old Tremayne Henderson was in the first block of West 104th Place when someone walked up and fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Henderson was shot in the chest and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 9:16 p.m., authorities said. He lived on the same block as the shooting.
Police are warning residents of numerous garage burglaries on the Far South Side.
Sixteen garage burglaries have been reporting across the Rosemoor, Fernwood and West Pullman neighborhoods since December 2016, according to alerts from Chicago Police.
The most recent garage burglary happened about 6:30 a.m. Feb. 6 in the 10500 block of South Prairie, police said.
Anyone with information was asked to contact Area South detectives at (312) 747-8273.
A man was critically wounded in a stabbing Wednesday afternoon in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
The 23-year-old victim suffered a laceration to the left side of his body about 3:35 p.m. in the 10300 block of South Emerald, Chicago Police said.
He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was in critical condition, police said.
No one was in custody as Area South detectives investigate.
A firefighter was among three people injured in a blaze late Sunday in a Fernwood neighborhood home on the Far South Side.
Firefighters responded about 11 p.m. to the single-family home near West 101st and South LaSalle streets, according to Chicago Fire Department Cmdr. Walter Schroeder.
The firefighter was taken in good condition to Mercy Hospital, Schroeder said. Two other adults were also injured in the blaze and taken to Roseland Community Hospital, one in fair-to-serious condition and the other listed in good condition.
The fire was extinguished within 30 minutes, Schroeder said.
A man was shot Thursday night in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Officers responded to a call of shots fired and found the 20-year-old man shot in one of his legs at 7:38 p.m. in the 10400 block of South Wallace, Chicago Police said.
He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said. His condition and the circumstances of the shooting were not immediately known.
A survivor of a brutal South Side home invasion that left four people dead told investigators he listened to one of the victims beg for his life, prosecutors said Thursday.
Lionel Parks and a second man killed four people and wounded two others in a botched robbery of a drug dealer on Dec. 17, prosecutors said during a hearing Wednesday at Cook County Criminal Court. Parks was ordered held without bail on four counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder.
Parks, 29, had visited Elijah Jackson’s home in the 100 block of West 105th Street twice on Dec. 17, chatting with Jackson and smoking marijuana with him, Assistant State’s Attorney Ed Murillo said.
When he returned a third time that day, Parks and an unnamed friend were armed with handguns and forced their way inside the house. The pair ordered the occupants to lay facedown on the floor as they ransacked the house for guns and drugs.
Before leaving, Parks and the second gunman executed Jackson, his pregnant sister, Shacora Jackson, Shacora’s 19-year-old daughter, Nateyah Hines, and 46-year-old Scott Thompson. Jackson’s 18-year-old niece also suffered multiple gunshot wounds and remains in a coma, Murillo said.
But Thompson’s 22-year-old nephew survived, playing dead as he lay on the floor beside his uncle. The nephew listened as Elijah Jackson pleaded with Parks, whom he had introduced earlier by the nickname “Froggy,” Murillo said.
“Froggy, don’t do this to me! Don’t hurt my family! You don’t have to do this, Froggy,” Murillo said, reading from a court document.
The nephew said Jackson and the other gunman had demanded cash and drugs, and ordered the residents to take off their clothes and hand over any cash or phones. When they found Shacora Jackson’s 22-year-old daughter in a bedroom at the rear of the house with a cellphone, Murillo said, Parks and the other man became “agitated.”
Thompson’s nephew, laying face down on the floor, listened as the two men began shooting the people next to him. The 22-year-old played dead, then climbed out a window after Parks and the other man left. Wearing only his socks and shorts, the nephew shouted to neighbors to call police.
Police arrived to find Hines, Thompson, and Elijah Jackson dead, with gunshot wounds to the back of their heads. Shacora Jackson, who was pregnant, lay dead at the bottom of the front steps of the house. Shacora’s 18-year-old daughter suffered gunshot wounds to the head, hand and thigh that have left her in a coma since the attack, Murillo said.
Parks, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and sweat pants, scowled as he was led before Judge James Brown for a bail hearing Monday at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse. He stood, impassive, as Murillo read an account of the killings.
After the hearing, Elijah and Shacora Jackson’s brother, Gershon, said it was painful to hear the story of their loved ones’ final moments.
“It was very difficult, it takes you back to that space,” Gershon Jackson said, standing beside a half-dozen relatives. “To hear your family suffer like that. It’s very uncomfortable . . . very hurtful for my family, but today is the first step of bringing closure. . . . We have to put our faith in the judicial system.”
Parks had been on parole and was wearing a state Department of Corrections ankle monitor at the time of the shootings. DOC records showed Parks had left the address he had listed as his residence four times on Dec. 17, including during the hours when the shootings took place.
Parks had listed his address at a house a few blocks away, where police recovered 9 mm shells that were the same brand as those used in the killings. Parks’ cellphone also showed he was near the Jacksons’ house when the shooting occurred.
Surveillance cameras showed him leaving his house shortly before the murders, and returning shortly afterward, walking with another person and carrying a large bag, Murillo said. Another camera showed what appears to be Parks’ vehicle driving near the Jacksons’ house before and after the killings.
A 26-year-old man was shot Friday afternoon in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
At 1:32 p.m., he was walking with a friend in the 300 block of West 99th Place when two people opened fire from Princeton Park, striking him in the right foot, according to Chicago Police.
He was taken to Roseland Community Hospital in good condition, police said.
A man was shot Sunday afternoon in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
The 20-year-old was shot multiple times at 3:41 p.m. when someone walked up to a vehicle he was inside and fired in the 10200 block of South Princeton Avenue, Chicago Police said.
The 20-year-old tried to drive after being shot, but crashed a short distance away, police said. He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition.
A 12-year-old girl who was reported missing Sunday afternoon from the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side has been found safe.
Lashaiyah Williams had last been seen Saturday in the 10200 block of South LaSalle Street, according to a missing person alert from Chicago Police.
Police said Tuesday afternoon that Williams had been found safe, and was reunited with her family.
A man was slain in a Fernwood neighborhood drive-by shooting late Thursday on the Far South Side, according to Chicago Police.
About 11:45 p.m., 41-year-old Jerry Austin was standing on a sidewalk in the 10100 block of South LaSalle when someone in a vehicle shot him in the chest and hand, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Austin lived in the Far South Side Riverdale neighborhood.
The attack was considered gang-related, and no one was in custody early Friday, police said.
A 17-year-old boy was shot to death Saturday night in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Donnell Hudson was in the 10500 block of South Lafayette Avenue at 8:36 p.m. when a male walked up to him and began shooting, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The shooter then ran off.
Hudson was shot in his back and chest, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:55 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the same neighborhood.
A man was shot to death Sunday afternoon in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said.
Just after 2 p.m., Devonta Brownlee, 19, was driving in the 10600 block of South Parnell Avenue when two vehicles began following him, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. People inside the following vehicles began shooting at him, and he was struck in his neck.
The shooters drove off, and Brownlee crashed into multiple parked vehicles before coming to a stop, authorities said. He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 2:58 p.m.
He lived in the West Pullman neighborhood.
A 16-year-old girl reported missing on Sunday from the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side has been found.
Alycia Clemons was reported missing from the 10500 block of South Wallace, according to a missing person alert from Chicago Police. Clemons was last seen Friday at a Motel 6 in Hammond, Indiana.
Police said Clemons was located Sunday night, but did not provide additional information.
A 26-year-old man was fatally shot Wednesday evening in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
At 8:04 p.m., the man was in the 10200 block of South State Street when someone got out of a vehicle and shot him multiple times, according to Chicago Police.
He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not confirmed the death.
No arrests have been made and Area South detectives are investigating, police said.
A man was shot Wednesday night in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
The 19-year-old was walking on the sidewalk about 9:15 p.m. in the 10500 block of South Wentworth when he heard shots and felt pain, Chicago Police said.
He took himself to Roseland Community Hospital with a graze wound to his right thigh, police said. His condition had stabilized.
A man was shot early Sunday in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
The 58-year-old suffered gunshot wounds to the left hand and both legs about 2 a.m. in the 10100 block of South Wentworth, according to Chicago Police.
He told investigators he was driving to the hospital when he crashed his vehicle on the 111th Street ramp from the southbound lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway, police said. The circumstances of the shooting were not known.
The man was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition was stabilized, police said.
A teenage girl was critically wounded Wednesday afternoon in a Fernwood neighborhood shooting on the Far South Side.
About 2:35 p.m., the 17-year-old was inside a home in the 300 block of West 106th Place when a male acquaintance fired shots, striking her in the eye, police said.
She was taken in critical condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said.
The shooting could be domestic-related, police said.
Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a Milwaukee man who last last seen a week ago in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
James Ivy, 69, was last seen about 10 p.m. on June 17 in the 10300 block of South State Street, according to a missing person alert from Chicago Police.
Ivy is a retired veteran who has post-traumatic stress disorder and may be headed back to Milwaukee via Amtrak, police said.
He is described as a 205-pound, 6-foot-1 African American man with brown eyes, black hair and a medium complexion, according to police.
Anyone with information on Ivy’s whereabouts is asked to contact Area South detectives at (312) 747-8274.
A 23-year-old man was seriously wounded Wednesday night in a Fernwood neighborhood shooting on the Far South Side.
He was shot in the head at 9:19 p.m. in the 10200 block of South State Street, according to Chicago Police.
He was taken in serious condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said.
A 27-year-old man was shot to death early Friday in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Witnesses in a passing vehicle found Vincent Hubbard lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the chest about 12:15 a.m. in the 10000 block of South Parnell, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
They drove Hubbard, who lived in the Longwood Manor neighborhood, to Roseland Community Hospital, where he died at 1 a.m., authorities said.
The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately known. No one was in custody Friday morning.
