E. Jason Wambsgans – Page 10

Kindness for Tyshawn

June 10, 2018 at 3:07 p.m.

Schyler Chandler grooms the hair of Tyshawn Lee, 9, at the House of Branch funeral home in Lawndale on Nov. 7, 2015. "This is gonna be his family's last time...

A shooter, a 4-year-old, a mom and blood-soaked jeans

June 15, 2018 at 5:23 p.m.

Four-year-old Jacele Johnson, a bullet in her head, writhed in her mother's arms while her mother screamed the child's name to keep her from slipping into unconsciousness. Jacele had been...

A Chicago police officer helps Trennetta Gresham (middle), the mother of 4-year-old shooting victim Jacele Johnson. (Eric Clark, baiduhai)

‘We got a beautiful city, but it has some evil people’

June 15, 2018 at 4:56 p.m.

Before it was clear that Jacele had a chance at survival, the emergency room grew crowded and hectic. Hospital staff called University of Chicago police to calm agitated family members...

‘Jacele is a fighter’

June 15, 2018 at 4:51 p.m.

Jacele's father Marcel Johnson walked into the emergency room lobby with hollow glossy eyes and an exhausted face just after 4 a.m. His eyes caught Trennetta Gresham's and the two...

Quiet … then commotion as wounded girl appears

June 15, 2018 at 5:19 p.m.

More than a dozen officers, detectives and investigators remained at the scene on Justine for four hours after the shooting. The block was brightest when lit by the flash of...

‘Nobody could tell me that makes sense for a 4-year-old to get shot’

June 15, 2018 at 4:50 p.m.

Jacele was not the only one hit. Her 17-year-old cousin was left in serious condition with wounds to his neck and chest — he had jumped forward when the shooting...

Vacant lot where a 23-year-old man ran through and fell after being shot to death on a porch at 116th Street and Stewart Avenue in the West Pullman neighborhood Sunday, July 6, 2014.

‘They shoot out here every day’

May 11, 2019 at 2:08 a.m.

Standing on Exchange Avenue at 81st Street, looking up at the police helicopter, was the first time I didn't feel like I was in Chicago. When a helicopter is straight...

Odis Looney at the scene where his cousin's 16-year-old son was shot and killed through an open window inside a first-floor apartment in the 6800 block of South Artesian Avenue. E. Jason Wambsgans / baiduhai

‘Yes sir, I feel guilty about it’

June 17, 2018 at 12:09 p.m.

Left with his guilt outside the apartment, apart from the family, was a cousin of Foggey's father. Odis Looney was a Gangster Disciple – when the GDs were an actual...

A boy watches as police investigate the scene where a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed through an open window inside a first-floor apartment in the 6800 block of South Artesian Avenue. E. Jason Wambsgans / baiduhai

‘What gets me is how comfortable these kids are’

June 17, 2018 at 12:16 p.m.

Darren Foggey Jr. was a casualty in an ongoing conflict between groups of kids that live on either side of Western Avenue, according to police. Just a week earlier, police...

Relatives watch as body removal personnel come for a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed through an open window inside a first-floor apartment on the 6800 block of South Artesian Avenue early Thursday. E. Jason Wambsgans / baiduhai

Father watches for son’s body to be taken away

June 17, 2018 at 12:24 p.m.

Darren Foggey Sr. saw the body of his son, Darren Jr., for a split second and walked away, under yellow police tape and yellow street lamps south on Artesian Avenue....

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