WEEKEND VIOLENCE: Officer Mugged, Several Slayings
WBBM Newsradio 780.com Reporting
A victim -- an off-duty Chicago Police officer -- was taken to an area hospital after being attacked during an early Sunday robbery on the Northwest Side.
Two men approached and attacked the man with a weapon during a robbery in the 2500 block of North Hamlin Avenue about 3:05 a.m., police said.
The victim was taken to Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital Center with minor injuries, police said.
Grand Central Area detectives are investigating. •A SHOOTING VICTIM ran three blocks to safety after being shot Sunday evening in the Englewood neighborhood, police said.
The victim was shot at 4:53 p.m. in the 6900 block of Ashland Avenue, according to police News Affairs Sgt. Antoinette Ursitti.
The man was shot at the intersection but ran three blocks east to Bishop Street where emergency crews found him, Englewood District police said.
The man was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in “stable” condition following the shooting, Ursitti said.
Wentworth Area detectives are investigating.
•THE MAN FOUND DEAD in the Humboldt Park neighborhood Sunday morning was shot multiple times, police said.
About 10:45 a.m., police responded to a call of a person shot at 854 N. Homan Ave. A victim in his 20s was found dead at the scene. Harrison Area detectives are conducting a homicide investigation.
The victim remains unidentified. An autopsy is scheduled.
•A TEEN WAS KILLED in an apparent gang-related shooting near his home in the Pilsen neighborhood early Saturday.
Arthur Tellez, 19, was shot in the abdomen at 2256 W. 23rd Pl., the Cook County Medical Examiner said.
Tellez, of South Oakley Ave., was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The shooting happened on the sidewalk on 23rd Place, and was apparently gang-related, according to Ogden District police.
No one is in custody Saturday. Harrison Area detectives are investigating.
•A 17-YEAR-OLD WAS FATALLY SHOT a few doors away from his South Side home Friday night.
The shooting happened about 8:20 p.m. in the 600 block of South May Street, according to police News Affairs Officer John Henry. The victim, identified as Johnathan Welsh, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner, was shot in the upper torso, Henry said.
Welsh lived on that street. He was pronounced dead at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County at 9:30 p.m. by the medical examiner.
Wentworth Area detectives are investigating.
•TWO MEN WERE SHOT, ONE FATALLY, inside a Far South Side garage Saturday afternoon in what police believe was a drug-related shooting.
The shooting happened at 2:27 p.m. in the 10800 block of South Green Bay Avenue, according to police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.
Someone entered the garage and fired shots, striking two men, Mirabelli said.
Alfonso Becerra, 30, was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:50 p.m, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner. Becerra was shot in the head.
A 25-year-old man also has gunshot wounds and is in Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in “stable” condition.
The shooting may have been drug-related, according to Mirabelli. No one is in custody. Calumet Area detectives are investigating.
•A 30-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS FATALLY shot near his South Side home Friday night.
The shooting happened about 8:05 p.m. in the 7200 block of South Eberhart Avenue, according to police News Afairs Officer John Henry.
Rashidi I. Butler, who lived there, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died at 9:06 p.m.
Calumet Area detectives are investigating. •TWO PEOPLE WERE SHOT and a third beaten early Saturday in the West Side’s Austin neighborhood.
The victims were found in the 1700 block of North Meade Avenue about 2:15 a.m., police said. No other information was revealed.
Grand Central Area detectives are investigating. •ONE VICTIM WAS SHOT in the South Side's Back-of-the-Yards neighborhood.
About 4:50 p.m., a man in his 20s was shot in the 5500 block of South Hamilton Avenue, police News Affairs Sgt. Antoinette Ursitti said. The victim is in "stable" at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County.
Wentworth Area detectives are investigating.
•A DRIVE-BY SHOOTING left a man is in critical condition Friday night after a drive-by shooting in the South Side's Grand Crossing neighborhood.
About 8:20 p.m., shots were fired from a passing vehicle in the 7200 block of South Eberhart Avenue and the victim was struck in the chest, police News Affairs Officer JoAnn Taylor said.
He is in Northwestern Memorial Hospital in "critical" condition.
Further details were not released
Calumet Area detectives are investigating.
• THE TEEN WHO WAS SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES in his West Side home early Thursday died from his injuries early Friday.
Devour Robinson was shot multiple times in his home on North Ridgeway Ave., the Cook County Medical Examiner's office said. The 17-year-old died from multiple gunshot wounds.
Robinson was initially taken in “critical” condition to Mount Sinai Hospital with gunshot wounds to the leg, arm, stomach and back, police said. No one else was injured.
Harrison Area detectives are investigating.
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