Copyright 2023 WLS-TV. "I can reassure the public that there will be an increased police presence in the area until we're able to identify offenders, if possible, or what, exactly, happened inside," he said. "Who is going to tell? Two brothers have been charged in that shooting. CHICAGO At least four people were killed Tuesday morning in Englewood in Chicago's second mass shooting in just four days, including at least two mothers. "The last 18 to 24 months it's been really like living in hell," said Arness Dancy. She was a good person a free-spirited person, said a cousin, Vickie Smith. Saturday morning, 10 people were shot, one fatally, near 75th Street and Prairie Avenue in the Chatham neighborhood. Editors note: This story was edited June 16, 2021, at 8 p.m. to correct the spelling of Shermetria Williams first name. Four other people were wounded in the shooting. Updated: Feb. 6, 2023 at 11:08 AM PST. second mass shooting Chicago has seen in the last four days. Investigators are reviewing body cameras, ballistic evidence and other surveillance footage to piece together what happened, Brown said. Police said the man was then taken to University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition. This is a tragic reminder of what our police officers do each and every day, laying their lives on the line for us. This includes directly interviewing sources and research / analysis of primary source documents. Kimfier Miles, 29, a mother of three, was out with a group of girlfriends whentwo men opened fire about 2 a.m. Saturday. Im crying for Chicagos wounds, both our political wounds, our physical wounds, our community wounds. Police tape outside a Chicago apartment building. A woman in her 20s was in critical condition at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Some of the victims of an Englwood mass shooting, which killed 4 people and injured 4 more, have been identified by officials and family. No guns were found in the house, but police did find shell casings and a high-capacity magazine for a gun inside the house. Please enter valid email address to continue. Through Sunday, the district had 20 homicides, five fewer than the same period in 2020, Chicago police statistics show. According to CPD, shots were fired after an argument at inside a home on South Morgan Street. Just Monday, Williams asked Richmond if she could take her shopping for a graduation outfit, and they last spoke Monday night. An officer was shot multiple times, Brown said. Her cousin, Shermetria Williams, had met a man less than two months ago when she attended one of his house parties. CHICAGO ROCKED BY WIDESPREAD LOOTING CAUGHT ON VIDEO AFTER POLICE-INVOLVED SHOOTING. As officers worked the scene into the late morning, a crowd of distraught relatives and neighbors gathered along the police tape blocking off Morgan Street. Four other people were hospitalized. Atavia Reed is a reporter for Block Club Chicago, covering the Englewood, Auburn Gresham and Chatham neighborhoods. No one is in custody and Area One detectives are investigating. They got me spooked, and I thought I was hardcore.. Click hereto support Block Clubwith a tax-deductible donation. One of the people killed was a resident of the home, but its not yet certain whether the other victims lived there, Brown said. The attack is the third mass shooting in Chicago in little over a week and came just hours after gunfire erupted at a party in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side, killinga man and wounding two women. A 29-year-old mother of three was killed in a Chatham shooting that left nine others hurt on Saturday morning. Ive been doing this since 2016 and it hurts. I cannot picture life without her. A A. CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. An Englewood man was arrested for their involvement in a shooting at 2045 N. Beach Road on Saturday night, officials . A witness told police there were two volleys of gunshots inside the home, hours apart. Area One detectives are investigating. This is a terrible situation and a lasting and damaging situation for the South Side [and] for the city.. Chicago police officers responded just before 5:45 a.m. to the intersection of 62nd and Morgan streets for a reported shooting. Outside Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, relatives said the man who lived in the home, James Tolbert, 41, was alert and coherent.. Police said there was a 2-year-old child inside the residence at the time of the shooting. From left, victims Shermetria Williams, Denice Mathis and Blake Lee. He said he spoke to a young boy who said his mother was one of the victims who died. It wasnt clear whether officers responded to the home at that time. There was no sign of forced entry, Brown said. Chicago police officers responded. She says Denice was a friend and she's still struggling to process what happened here. Another man is also being treated at Christ Hospital. The relative, who asked not to be named, said her cousins daughter was hit in the arm when shots were exchanged between two cars in the 600 block of West 61st Street around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. On February 22, 2023, around 7:55 p.m., Rampart Division uniformed patrol officers responded to . Police said a 25-year-old man was shot in the back of the head and was taken to Christ Hospital. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Down the street, inside a two-story house with a gray stone front, lay Mathis and the bodies of two women and a man killed in a shooting that seriously wounded four other people early Tuesday. The third woman who died in the attack was Ratanya Aryiel Rogers, 28, who lived in Rogers Park, according to the Cook County medical examiners officer. Why did this have to happen?, Williams still held the ticket for his daughters graduation. 4:51 PM EDT, Mon May 17, 2021. Asked whether the spike in violence will hurt Chicagos reopening, Lightfoot said some areas of the city have challenges, but not all. (CBS Denver) ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (KKTV) - A police officer was one of two people injured in a shooting outside a . David Brown said at a news conference. The man shared a photo with CBS 2. This includes directly interviewing sources and research / analysis of primary source documents. The Supt. You cant go anywhere because the citys messed up, Lawrence said. We are a city thats awash in illegal guns. The family had tickets to go to her graduation from Country Club Hills Tech & Trade Center scheduled for the day she died. The widespread looting was captured in several videos shared to social media. Theres a lot of family, Price said. @cbschicago gathering more. Ive been here 15 years, I aint never seen anything like this, Johnson said. Chicago Tribunes Gregory Pratt, Alice Yin, Annie Sweeney and Sarah Freishtat contributed. I love her to death," said a man who identified as the brother of one of the three women killed here, Denice Mathis. I want whoever is responsible to be held accountable. I dont know anything. CHICAGO (CBS)-- Eight people were shot, four fatally, during a gathering in Englewood Tuesday morning. A woman called 911, saying a man with a gun was chasing her down the street, Brown said, citing preliminary information. Lightfoot urged officers to consult counseling and peer support services as they grieve. As a response to the rise of school shootings elsewhere in the United States, the William S. Hart Union High School District had undertaken a number of measures to improve security at the school. Lea este artculo en espaol en La Voz Chicago. It was coming from everywhere. The results of that poll, in a word: Oof. ENGLEWOOD Three shooters got out of an SUV in Englewood Thursday evening and sprayed bullets on a group of people, wounding seven including a teenage boy and a 1-month-old girl who was shot in the head, police said. The whole thing is bad. Witnesses heard gunfire about 2 a.m. and then again at some point 5:30-5:45 a.m., Supt. Friends said Lee was Mathis' best friend. The shooting took place at a home in Inglewood, and family and friends told NBC4 that it was a birthday party that turned violent. That was my baby girl.. This is unbelievable a massacre, said Williams, struggling to compose his thoughts as officers took down the crime tape around the Englewood house. "It's really heartbreaking," added a woman named Michelle. The 18-year-old was hospitalized in critical condition, Brown said. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. A man, 23, arrived at St. Bernard Hospital with a gunshot wound to the back. They were willing to put their lives on the line to protect this victim.. Chicago police investigate the scene of a shooting that left four people dead at a home in the 6200 block of South Morgan Street in Chicago on June 15, 2021. Brown did not elaborate on the relationships of the victims and the shooter, or what the argument was about. Police said this wasn't the first time they've been called to the house. Four others were taken to hospitals, with two in critical condition and two whose conditions had stabilized Tuesday evening, according to police. Her father, Demetrius Williams, said Shermetria was his younger of two daughters. He started at the Post in 1986, at the old building on 15th and California streets. Jackson, who has lived in the neighborhood for 40 years, said she had been sleeping when the shooting happened, but she awoke to the sound of a helicopter above her home. Schools are surrounded by fencing and supervisors monitor those who enter and exit . He definitely didnt deserve this.. There was no sign of the home being broken into, Brown said. Subscribe to Block Club Chicago,an independent, 501(c)(3), journalist-run newsroom. The medical examiner's office has not yet confirmed those identities. Shermetria Williams' father said Tuesday was supposed to be her celebration, marking a major life achievement. A 23-year-old man took himself to St. Bernard Hospital after being shot in his back. I told him just to be careful out here. how interested you are in the Fire, whose season begins Saturday against New York City FC at Soldier Field. This article contains new, firsthand information uncovered by its reporter(s). Email Newsroom@BlockClubChi.org. Of the four surviving victims, there are three men and a woman. He was taken to a local hospital where he died, police said. Our people are getting killed. Mathis family said she was a devoted mother. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. This is the second mass shooting Chicago has seen in the last four days. She was ready for today.. By ABC7 Staff. Family members identified two other victims as Denice Mathis and Blake Lee. Chicago police officials investigate inside a house in the 6200 block of South Morgan, where eight people were shot, four fatally, during an argument inside the Englewood building, Tuesday afternoon, June 15, 2021. When more gunfire rang out about 5:30 a.m., officers responded and found the victims, Brown said. 'HELP US!!' March 1, 2023 at 8:10 a.m. Pueblo County Sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man in a home after shots were fired near North Mesa Elementary School Tuesday afternoon. Lightfoot bristled when asked how the steady stream of mass shootings might impact her efforts to reopen the city and encourage Chicagoans to come downtown to dine and shop and patronize the stores and restaurants in their own neighborhoods. As you can imagine, they are taking this tragedy very, very hard, Brown said. Police Supt. Early Saturday, awoman was killed and nine others wounded near 75th Street and South Prairie Avenue. She loves her daughter and her grandkids.. He was taken in extremely critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died, Brown said. Police said the victims were in the car in the 1100-block of. Lightfoot said Chicago is part of a "club of cities to which no one wants to belong: Cities with mass shootings.". Mathis' family said she was a loving mother of five children, who she simply adored. Share. I ask that this city cover this officers family. First published on June 15, 2021 / 7:21 PM. I still have text messages from her saying I have everything. 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Thats my baby! is escorted by community activists, including Andrew Holmes (left), to a vehicle after she tried to cross police tape at West 63rd Street and South Morgan Street, Tuesday morning, June 15, 2021. Chicago's Magnificent Mile is mobbed by rioters after a man is shot by police in the city's Englewood neighborhood. Outside the University of Chicago Medical Center, Clifton Lawrence, 45, said he was about to go to work when he learned from family about his daughter, who is in her 20s, getting shot and that the incident had been on the news. Four people are dead and four others left injured. CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two men were shot, one fatally, while sitting in a parked car Tuesday morning in Englewood, Chicago police said. Also killed was Shermetria Williams, 19, the mother of a 2-year-old daughter. Blash is being held at the Arapahoe County Jail on investigation of first-degree murder, among other possible charges, police said. He did not say which victim or whether they were among the injured or killed. NewsBreak provides latest and breaking news about #Shooting In Inglewood Yesterday. INGLEWOOD (CBSLA) Four people were killed Sunday in an "ambush-style" shooting during a house party in Inglewood. First published on June 15, 2021 / 11:24 AM. And sometimes when we have these large gatherings, things happen.". Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said they believe there was a party going on when the shooting happened. The officer had a bright future ahead of him, Brown said. Williams' family said she was one of the eight people shot. A witness told reporters on the scene that people near the girl ducked her down behind a car., The man said one of the shots shattered the front passenger window of his car. Every time we are around each other, all she talks about is her daughter, Price said. A high-capacity magazine was recovered from the scene, the superintendent said. What that tells us about the larger discussion about illegal guns is theres way too many guns in the wrong hands in this city and the country, he said. No one was in custody. Officials from the Civilian Office of Police Accountability headed to the scene to investigate the shooting, the agency tweeted. He has the pedigree, too: his grandfather Bob was a left tackle and offensive captain on Packers teams that won five NFL championships from 1961-67. After he walked away, several women began to weep. The 18-year-old said his brother has a daughter who is about 6. The results of that poll, in a word: Oof. Denice Mathis also was killed. Search site. And I just heard the little girl screaming.. ", RELATED: 4 mass shootings in 6 hours leave 38 wounded, 6 dead. At an unrelated news conference Tuesday morning, Mayor Lori Lightfoot blamed the shooting on the easy availability of illegal guns -- an argument she's made many times before when addressing gun violence in Chicago. A man shot in the back of the head was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in unknown condition, police said. Demetrius Williams said he was devastated and called the loss of his daughter senseless.He said she had a 2-year-old daughter. 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