A 29-year-old man has been charged in connection with a shooting March 22, 2021, in the 13100 block of South Corliss Avenue. | Adobe Stock Photo
Jaquan Scullark is due in bond court Thursday.
A 29-year-old man has been charged in connection with a shooting March 22 in Altgeld Gardens on the Far South Side.
Police charged Jaquan Scullark, of Roseland, was charged with a felony count of attempted first-degree murder and a felony count of aggravated battery with a firearm, Chicago police said.
Scullark was arrested about 2:55 p.m. Wednesday in the 800 block of East 87th Street, after he was identified as the person who allegedly fired shots injuring a 32-year-old woman March 22, in the 13100 block of South Corliss Avenue, police said.
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Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman is considering three types of trades before the Monday NHL deadline. | Kamil Krzaczynski/AP file photo
Bowman is considering three types of trades: recouping assets for an upcoming free agent, receiving assets for taking on another team’s bad contract or acquiring a young player with contract term and long-term value.
With mere days left until the NHL trade deadline on Monday at 2 p.m. CT, Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman has been talking “regularly” with other GMs around the league about trade possibilities.
“I’ve touched base with nearly everybody, just getting an idea of what they’re trying to do and understanding what their needs might be,” Bowman said earlier this week.
He’s considering three types of trades.
But there’s one type he’s explicitly not considering: bringing in a pending unrestricted free agent as a rental. Although the Hawks are in the playoff race, their focus remains squarely on the future, and they’re not going to swap any future-oriented assets for present-oriented assets.
“We will not be in the market to trade away draft picks or young players to acquire a veteran UFA,” he said bluntly.
Last week’s trade for Vinnie Hinostroza, who will be a UFA, was an exception because the Hawks only had to give up a player (minor-leaguer Brad Morrison) who “really wasn’t in the plans for us in Chicago,” Bowman said.
But Bowman will consider playing the opposite role, dealing away one of the Hawks’ own UFAs — of which they really have just two, forwards Mattias Janmark and Carl Soderberg — in exchange for a pick or prospect. That’s the simplest type of trade he’s open to.
“Right now, they’re part of our team and…there’s a scenario where they would remain with us,” he said. “[But] when we’re in a position like we are and they’re not signed beyond this season, sometimes in those cases teams are actively pursuing those guys. There’s been no definitive decisions made on them.”
Janmark’s analytics are poor but his counting stats are decent, having scored 19 points in 40 games. He’s only 28 years old, so a GM could look to acquire him as a rental then re-sign him this summer. He could be worth a second- or third-round pick or B-grade prospect.
Soderberg (14 points in 33 games) is less appealing as a 35-year-old who has been scratched twice lately, but center depth is valuable enough that he could fetch a late-round pick.
The second type of trade Bowman is considering would entail taking on another team’s overpriced contract and receiving supplementary assets for doing so.
With the Hawks possessing more than $22 million in cap space this year (per CapFriendly) due to their many players on long-term injured reserve — and on track for lots of cap space again next season — at a time when so many other teams find themselves pressed up against the cap, this kind of move makes perfect sense.
“People are throwing out concepts, but at this point nobody is that interested in paying a price that I think would be necessary,” Bowman said. “We do have the ability to take on a player, but it’s got to be [with] something that we deem worthwhile, whether it’s a draft pick or young player.”
A trade like this will only happen once a contender tight on cap space decides to acquire a player and needs to free up more space to fit them in. Bowman described it as a “chicken and egg” situation.
So the dominoes around the league need to start falling to initiate the process. The Islanders finally jumpstarted that Wednesday, acquiring Kyle Palmieri and Travis Zajac from the Devils, but Anders Lee’s recent LTIR designation and the Devils retaining 50% of Palmieri and Zajac’s cap hits allowed the Isles to fit them in without having to jettison an albatross contract like Andrew Ladd or Leo Komarov.
Ideally for the Hawks, another team looking to make a splash before Monday afternoon will actually need to discard someone. Conceivable possibilities include the Oilers and James Neal, the Hurricanes and Jake Gardiner or the Capitals and Richard Panik.
“For them, it’s like a two-step process,” Bowman said. “‘I’m going to unload this player and pay a price to do it, and then I’m going to pay a price to get this other player. Do I want to do all that? And in what order?’ Those conversations are in the early stages but I have had them with some teams.”
The third type of trade under consideration — and the type that would be most exciting for Hawks fans — would bring in a young player with contract term who fits into the Hawks’ long-term plans.
Bowman realizes the Hawks, despite their youth and potential, remain far from returning to the top of the mountain. Outside help could accelerate that climb.
“Our team is not where we want it to be, meaning we’re not a finished product here and we need [help in] areas up and down the roster,” he said. “I wouldn’t say we’re targeting one position, but there’s areas at forward and defense where we need to improve.”
Conversations with various teams about all three types of trades have been steadily ongoing for 10-14 days now, Bowman said, but are expected to strongly increase in intensity and urgency over the weekend.
Many have speculated that this season’s flat salary cap, COVID-19 quarantine rules, all-divisional playoff format and reduced revenues could create a quieter-than-usual trade deadline around the league, but Bowman said his conversation frequency has been “pretty consistent with past years.”
The coming days will determine if those conversations lead to actual trades for the Hawks.
Police investigate after a child was shot April 6, 2021, at Monroe Street and Lake Shore Drive near Grant Park. | Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times
Jushawn Brown, of Englewood, is due in bond court Thursday.
A 43-year-old man is facing a felony gun charge in connection with a road rage shooting on Lake Shore Drive Tuesday that left a toddler critically wounded, according to Chicago police.
Jushawn Brown, of Englewood, has been charged with a felony count of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, police said.
Both cars continued north and shooting began on Lake Shore Drive just west of the Shedd Aquarium. Bullet casings were recovered over a two-block stretch as the cars proceeded north, Alderden said.
Kayden Swann, a 21-month-old boy who was in Brown’s vehicle as shots were fired, was struck in the temple and suffered a severe brain injury, said Dr. Marcelo Malakooti, medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit at Lurie Children’s Hospital. The boy has been placed in a medically induced coma to protect his brain and is on a ventilator.
Brown was identified by police as the person who allegedly pulled out a gun and fired shots at another vehicle during the road-rage incident, police said. He was taken into custody in the 200 block of East Huron Street.
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The 2021 NFL Draft is coming up and it is a huge one for the Chicago Bears. It will give us a strong indication of their direction as a franchise as well as the potential leash on general manager Ryan Pace. There might be an opportunity right now to make a big move that will extend his job security if he executes it the right way.
Things have not been good for them since going 12-4 in 2018 but they have technically been in the playoffs two of the last three years. Now, they have to do something special in this draft in order to convince the fanbase that they are on the right path.
The Chicago Bears have an opportunity to go up and get a quarterback in the draft.
A few reports are out there that the Atlanta Falcons are willing to trade out of the fourth overall pick. That is something that the Chicago Bears absolutely have to consider. They are in desperate need of a quarterback. Mitchell Trubisy is gone and neither Nick Foles nor Andy Dalton is the answer. There are a few things that should make them try to trade up to four with Atlanta.
We all know that Trevor Lawrence is going to take his talents from the University of Clemson to the Jacksonville Jaguars as the first overall pick in the draft. It seems likely that the New York Jets will take Zach Wilson of BYU with the second pick. That leaves the third pick with the San Francisco 49ers.
With teams locked into the first three overall picks, the Atlanta Falcons now have received trade calls from multiple teams and “are open to moving” out of the No. 4 spot, per source.
If the 49ers don’t take the guy that the Bears want out of Justin Fields, Mac Jones, and Tre Lance, it is the perfect opportunity to go up and get one of them. If Atlanta doesn’t trade the pick before then, the Bears need to be on the phone with them during the draft early and often. These are three trades that might get it done:
A 30-year-old man was fatally shot April 8, 2021, in the first block of North Kilbourn Avenue. | Sun-Times file
About 2:15 a.m., the 30-year-old was sitting in a parked vehicle in the parking lot of a gas station in the first block of North Kilbourn Avenue, when shots were fired from a passing vehicle.
A man was fatally shot Thursday morning in a drive-by in West Garfield Park on the West Side.
About 2:15 a.m., the 30-year-old was sitting in a parked vehicle in the parking lot of a gas station in the first block of North Kilbourn Avenue, when shots were fired from a passing vehicle, Chicago police said.
He was struck in the head, back, and pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not yet identified the man.
