Chicago Area Local News

CHICAGO (STNG) ― Eight people were fatally shot and one man was beaten to death in and around Chicago this weekend.

The violence started just after midnight on Saturday, when 17-year-old Andre Malcolm was leaving a party in the 10500 block of South Normal Avenue.

The teen "became involved in an altercation" with another person on his way out of the party when shots were fired and he was struck in the chest, police News Affairs Officer David Banks said.

The shooter, only described by police as a black male, then fled eastbound on foot.

Malcolm was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was pronounced dead at 1:35 a.m.

Just over an hour later in the South Side's Fuller Park neighborhood, a 29-year-old man, identified as Calvin Braxton, was gunned down by two offenders described only as black males, while he was in the 200 block of East Garfield Boulevard, police News Affairs Officer David Banks said.

Braxton, of 227 E. 60th St., was shot multiple times and pronounced dead on the scene.

Just before 3 a.m. Saturday in west suburban Maywood, a 25-year-old Chicago man was fatally shot during a possible robbery, Maywood police said.

Alfredo Solano, of 3639 W. 26th St., was fatally shot at 2000 S. 1st Avenue, officials said. Early reports indicate Solano and the gunman were arguing prior to the shooting, possibly over a robbery attempt.

Solano's friend led police to a driveway where they found him dead on the scene with a gunshot wound to his head.

The shooting continued Saturday afternoon during an attempted robbery at a grocery store in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.

Bethel Tucker, 52, of 609 N. Hamlin Ave., was gunned down in a corner grocery store at 3759 W. Ohio St., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. Ramos Grocery is listed at that address.

According to unconfirmed reports, Tucker was an employee at the store.

Police responded to the shooting about 3:30 p.m., after two men apparently entered the store and attempted to rob it, Banks said. The men then shot the 52-year-old Tucker and fled the scene.

The men, only described as males wearing dark jeans and dark gym shoes, were last seen in the 600 block of North Ridgeway Avenue, Banks said.

Saturday night in the West Side's Humboldt Park neighborhood, a 16-year-old was found dead on the street with multiple gunshot wounds.

Donovan Morris-Beverly, of 1336 N. Lorel Ave., was pronounced dead at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County at 10:22 p.m., a medical examiner's office spokesman said.

The boy was found shot in the 4200 block of West Kamerling Avenue about 9:40 p.m. Saturday, police said.

About 2:30 a.m. Sunday in the South Side's Englewood neighborhood, police found another 16-year-old boy who was killed after someone shot him in the neck with a shotgun.

Arthur Tyler, of 9319 S. Lyon Ave., was shot at 6344 S. Seeley Ave. and pronounced dead on the scene, the spokesman said.

Tyler died from a gunshot wound to the neck, and his death was ruled a homicide.

In south suburban Harvey, a 32-year-old man was killed on the street early Sunday.

Jose Garza, 32, was fatally shot on the street at 15026 Fairfield Ave. in Harvey, a spokesman for the medical examiner's office said.

Garza, of 14912 Western Ave. in Harvey, was taken to Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey where he was pronounced dead at 5:05 a.m., the spokesman said.

Police in Harvey would not comment on the shooting Sunday night.

A Southwest Side man was beaten to death Sunday morning in the Archer Heights neighborhood.

Robert Ulmer, 41, of 4029 S. Maplewood Ave., was assaulted near South Hamlin Avenue and West 47th Street, according to the medical examiner's office.

Ulmer was arguing with multiple people and the altercation became violent about 1:05 a.m., police said. It was not immediately known what Ulmer was arguing about.

Ulmer's attackers beat him with their hands, fists and feet and he was initially hospitalized in critical condition with blunt force trauma to the head, police said. He was pronounced dead just hours later at Stroger Hospital.

A description of the attackers was not available.

Sunday afternoon, another shooting on the South Side left a 25-year-old man dead.

Rodney King, 25, was fatally shot at 440 E. 62nd Street, the medical examiner's office said.

The shooting happened just after 6:30 p.m., but circumstances surrounding the incident were not available, police News Affairs Sgt. Antoinette Ursitti said, citing preliminary information.

King, of 5163 S. Michigan Ave., was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital shortly after the shooting, but his pronouncement time was not available.

No arrests had been made in any of the weekend homicides late Sunday, police said.

(Source: Sun-Times News Group Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2009. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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