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    9 dead, 47 injured in Fourth of July weekend shootings in Chicago

    9 dead, 47 injured in Fourth of July weekend shootings

    WRITTEN BY SUN-TIMES WIRE POSTED: 07/04/2015, 06:46AM

    Police investigate bloody clothes near Chicago and Milwaukee avenues, were a man was shot early Sunday, July 5, 2015. | Ashlee Rezin/for Sun-Times Media


    Fourth of July weekend shootings have left nine people dead — including a 7-year-old boy — and at least 47 others injured since Thursday evening.

    Seven-year-old Amari Brown was killed in a shooting that also left a 26-year-old woman wounded late Saturday in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.

    Amari, who lived in the 500 block of North Drake, was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1:56 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
    Police said Sunday the bullet that fatally wounded 7-year-old Amari Brown on the Fourth of July was meant for his father. Both Amari and the 26-year-old woman were shot at 11:55 p.m. in the 1100 block of North Harding, police said.

    The boy’s father, Antonio Brown, is a ranking gang member with 45 previous arrests and was not cooperating with police as of Sunday afternoon as they tried to find his son’s killer, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said Sunday.

    “It’s crazy. Like who would shoot a 7-year-old? He got shot in the chest. Who would do that? To a baby?” Amari’s grandmother, 52-year-old Vida Hailey asked as she waited for news outside Stroger. “All the kids that are getting killed out here – it’s crazy. When is it going to stop?”

    The 26-year-old woman was shot in the chest and taken to Stroger, where her condition stabilized.
    In the most recent fatal shooting, a 48-year-old man was killed in a Sunday afternoon shooting in the Calumet Heights neighborhood.
    Anthony Strong was shot in the right chest about 4:55 p.m. in the 9200 block of South Harper, police said.
    Strong, who lived where he was shot, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 6:06 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said.
    Police added that a “person of interest” is in custody.

    Earlier, two brothers from Missouri died Sunday morning after shots were fired at an SUV in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.
    John Hunter, 25, and his 31-year-old brother Willie Hunter were sitting inside a Chevrolet SUV about 6:10 a.m. in the 8800 block of South Bishop, when another male walked up and opened fire, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
    The SUV — driven by the younger brother — sped away, but then crashed into a building in the 1600 block of West 89th, authorities said.
    John Hunter, of the 300 block of East Ashley Street in Jefferson City, Missouri, suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 7 a.m., authorities said.
    Willie Hunter, of the 1200 block of East High Street in Jefferson City, was discovered unresponsive in the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
    It was not immediately known whether the older brother died from gunshot wounds or injuries suffered in the crash. An autopsy was scheduled for Monday.
    Earlier Sunday, a man was killed in a shooting that left two others wounded in the Northwest Side Albany Park neighborhood early Sunday.
    Jeremy Spivey, 23, and the two others were sitting inside a van in an alley near Sunnyside and Kimball about 2:30 a.m. when a male walked up and fired shots, authorities said.
    Spivey, of the 4700 block of West Belmont, was shot multiple times and taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 4:03 a.m., authorities said.
    A 17-year-old boy was shot in the right leg and taken to Masonic, where his condition was stabilized. A 26-year-old woman was shot in the right finger and was being treated at Swedish Covenant Hospital, police said.
    Relatives of the 17-year-old, who live near the shooting, said they spent the day barbecuing and watching fireworks for the Fourth of July. A female relative said she had heard gunshots around their home between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., then again at 10 p.m.
    She took her family inside just five minutes before the shooting. She and her children said they heard about seven gunshots but didn’t think anything of it until they heard ambulances pull up.
    A police source said all the victims are documented gang members.
    About an hour and a half earlier, a man was shot to death in the South Shore neighborhood.
    The 26-year-old man was sitting in his car in the 7700 block of South South Shore Drive about 1 a.m. when someone walked up and fired shots into the car, police said.
    He was taken to South Shore Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
    Police said the shooting is possibly gang-related.
    A 17-year-old boy was shot to death Friday afternoon in a Bronzeville neighborhood park named after slain King College Prep student Hadiya Pendleton.
    The teen — identified by authorities as Vonzell Banks of the 4500 block of South Prairie — and a 19-year-old man were standing outside Hadiya Pendleton Park in the 4300 block of South King about 4:45 p.m., when a vehicle approached and someone inside opened fire, police said.
    Banks, a Dunbar Vocational High School junior, was playing basketball with his older brother, Vinny, and some friends when he was shot, his aunt, LaShanda Childs, told the Chicago Sun-Times.
    “He was a loving child, getting ready to be a senior at high school,” Childs said. “He was going to start a summer job on Monday. He was very excited about it.”
    Like Pendleton — in whose honor the park was renamed just two months ago — Banks was shot in the back. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:31 p.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
    The man was shot in the right foot and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized.
    Police said Banks and the 19-year-old were likely not the intended targets of the shooting.
    Earlier Friday, a man was killed and a woman was wounded in a South Side Washington Heights neighborhood drive-by shooting on the South Side.
    The two were walking in the alley in the 9100 block of South Ashland about 1:20 a.m. when someone in a passing white van opened fire, police said.
    Grover Tate, 47, of the 1500 block of West 95th Street, was shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
    The woman, 43, was shot in the abdomen and buttocks and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where her condition had stabilized, police said.
    A 26-year-old man was killed in the same block he lived in just after midnight Friday in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood.
    The man, identified as Jose Hernandez, was sitting on a porch at 12:05 a.m. in the 4800 block of South Justine when another male walked up and shot him in the back, authorities said.
    He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead less than an hour later, the medical examiner’s office said.
    An officer at the scene said the shooting — the second on that block in about nine hours — may have stemmed from a conflict involving the La Raza street gang. Neighbors said they heard about four to six gunshots.
    “We were all in the kitchen you know, having bonding, family time, and this happens,” said 15-year-old Jocelyn Avila, who lives on the block and also heard gunshots from the other shooting at 3 p.m. Thursday.
    The weekend’s first homicide happened Thursday evening in the Little Village neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
    About 6:25 p.m., Joseph Gutierrez was riding a bicycle in the 2700 block of South Karlov when a gunman ran up and shot him repeatedly in the upper body, authorities said.
    Gutierrez, of the 6200 block of South Kenneth, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:06 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said. Police said the shooting may have been gang-related.
    On Saturday night, a man was shot in Streeterville shortly after the Navy Pier fireworks show.
    The 19-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen at 10:06 p.m. in the 200 block of East Ohio, according to police and fire officials. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in serious-to-critical condition, fire officials said.
    A possible shooter was taken into custody and a weapon was recovered at the scene.
    At least 41 others have been injured in shootings since 4:45 p.m. Thursday.

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    10 killed, 54 wounded in Fourth of July gun violence in Chicago


    CAPTIONWatchingE. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune
    A man holding a baby watches the scene at Damen Avenue and James Street where two males were arrested after a traffic stop that may have been related to gunfire July 5, 2015.


    By Peter Nickeas contact the reporter

    Shootings over the Fourth of July weekend left 10 people dead and 54 others wounded, a toll lower than last year but one marked by an intense stretch of gun violence over eight hours on one of the nights.

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    Police boss McCarthy on child's death: 'This has got to stop'

    Among those killed was 7-year-old Amari Brown, shot in the chest as he watched fireworks near his father's home in Humboldt Park late Saturday night. Police say they believe the attack was aimed at the father, whom they described as a ranking gang member.

    Also gunned down was 17-year-old Vonzell Banks, who was shot as he played basketball Friday at a park named for Hadiya Pendleton, a high school student fatally shot in 2013 near President Barack Obama's Chicago home.


    The wounded included a 16-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl shot shortly after midnight Sunday as they walked in Old Town, and a 19-year-old man shot around 10 p.m. Saturday as two groups fought near Navy Pier after the fireworks display there.

    The violence peaked from dusk Saturday until dawn Sunday, when 30 people were shot across Chicago -- nearly half the total for the entire weekend, measured from 3 p.m. Thursday until just before dawn Monday.


    Friends and family of 7-year-old Amari Brown hold a candlelight vigil at his mother Amber Hailey's home on July 5, 2015. Brown died after being shot in the chest on July 4, 2015. (Brian Nguyen, Chicago Tribune)

    Last Fourth of July, 82 people were shot, 16 of them fatally, over 84 hours. Five of those shot were wounded by police.

    There were no police-involved shootings this year.


    The shootings this Fourth of July were primarily scattered across the South and West sides.


    Englewood -- the police district with more shootings than any other in the city so far this year -- did not have a single person shot over the holiday weekend.


    A number of other neighborhoods saw several shootings: Little Village, four people shot; Back of the Yards, six shot; and the Austin neighborhood, eight people shot.


    Two North Side neighborhoods -- Old Irving Park and Albany Park -- each had shootings in which three people were wounded. One man died in the Albany Park shooting.

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