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A 29-year-old man had been driving a Polaris Slingshot AutoCycle — a low-riding vehicle that combines aspects of a motorcycle and an automobile, such as two seats, a steering wheel and seat belts, but no roof or air bags, according to Polaris — around 2:40 a.m. in the 400 block of South Homan Avenue in Homan Square on the West Side, police said.
Mensah, who is Black, joined the Wauwatosa Police Department in 2015, the same year he shot and killed Antonio Gonzales, who identified as a Latino and American Indian. Prosecutors said Gonzales refused to drop a sword. The Anderson shooting came the following year.
Artists Me’Lo the Generation Hero, front, and Asha Omega, left, sing as a fellow artist performs at a Juneteenth celebration hosted by My Block, My Hood, My City at Hamilton Park in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood on June 19, 2021. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)
The latest of the deadly attacks happened shortly after 7 p.m. Friday in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Chicago police said a 28-year-old woman, a 15-year-old boy and a man, 31, were standing outside in the 5400 block of. South Bishop Street when a gunman, from a distance, shot the woman in the head and wounded the man and boy.
Just after 1 a.m., the fire was reported in a residential building in the 1700 block of West 59th Street, according to Chicago police. A 40-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene, while a 13-year-old girl and man in his 80s escaped unharmed.
However, in the months before Linn granted a new trial, “George Jackson began, from time to time, acting erratically, lacking civility, raising his voice, getting personally insulting to the court and to the State’s Attorney’s office,” Linn said in court a few months later.
Gladys Simpson, founder of the Academy of Scholastic Achievement, a West Side charter school that is also one of the event’s community partners, said Juneteenth gives everyone, especially the young, the opportunity to come together and acknowledge a shared history.
At 3:15 a.m. Nov. 1, 2019, officers responded to a call of a person shot at the white-stoned home in the 6200 block of South Morgan Street on the South Side, according to a Chicago police report included in a city complaint filing against the building’s owner. Officers found a 26-year-old man lying on the kitchen floor in his own blood with gunshot wounds throughout his body, telling the officers, “Get me some help.”
As the body was removed from the building around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, wails of grief rose from the people gathered behind police tape. The body was placed in a van and as it drove off one man shouted, “We love you, boy!” Another man ran behind the van, his hands in the air as if to wave goodbye or, possibly, to try to hold onto the victim a little longer.
The three were in a vehicle westbound in the 2800 block of West 79th Street in the Ashburn neighborhood when a car, possibly a burgundy Dodge Durango, came alongside, police said. Several shots were fired from the vehicle thought to be a Durango, which fled.