Weekend Blotter: Six Killed, 23 Wounded In Holiday Weekend Violence
By Samantha Abernethy in News on May 28, 2013 7:00PM
- Six people were killed and 23 people were wounded in citywide violence over the holiday weekend between 6 p.m. Friday and 6 p.m. Monday. A majority of the incidents took place overnight Friday through Saturday morning. On the plus side, that's a decrease from 2012's Memorial Day weekend in which 10 people were killed and 47 were wounded.
- Leetema Daniels, 17, was shot in the head and killed around 11 p.m. Friday in the Austin neighborhood. An 18-year-old man was also shot in the chest. This was the fourth shooting death in Austin in a week.
- Tevin Kirkman, 22, was found shot in the back of the head outside his North Lawndale home and died at 12:20 a.m. Saturday.
- Gregory Dixon, 29, was shot and killed after he buzzed the gunmen into his Kenwood apartment building around 1:50 a.m. Saturday.
- Ferro Denard, 18, was shot in the head and killed during a drive-by shooting in the South Shore neighborhood around 9:20 p.m. Saturday.
- Malcolm Dobbey, 27, was shot in the armpit and killed in the West Pullman neighborhood around 2:10 a.m. Sunday. Dobbey's death has been ruled justifiable, but it's not clear why.
- Charles Jones, 44, was shot and killed and a 42-year-old woman was wounded after a car crash in the Goose Island neighborhood around 3 a.m. Sunday. Jones, manager of The Factory Gentleman's Club, was driving his Maserati when a Buick LaCrosse sideswiped him. Police say at least one of the two men in the Buick opened fire on the Maserati, striking Jones in the head.
- A 34-year-old man was stabbed and critically wounded in a domestic incident in the Austin neighborhood on Saturday.
- Three men were shot and wounded as they stood on a sidewalk in the South Austin neighborhood around 3 a.m. Monday.
- A 15-year-old girl was shot and wounded in the shoulder while she sat on a front porch in the Pullman neighborhood on Monday around 5:20 p.m.
- Two men stabbed a man in the back in the Albany Park neighborhood around 12:10 a.m. Tuesday.