Chicago police work the scene where an 11-year-old girl was shot in the 11700 block of South Michigan late Sunday. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times
The drive-by attack happened about 9 p.m. near 117th Place and Michigan Avenue.
A drive-by shooting left an 11-year-old girl seriously wounded Sunday night in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Witnesses told police someone opened fire from a red vehicle about 9 p.m. in the 11700 block of South Michigan, according to Chicago police.
The girl was hit once in the lower back, police said. A family member drove her to Roseland Community Hospital, where she was listed in serious condition.
A person who said they’re related to the wounded child declined to comment at the hospital. She’s among more than 40 people hit by gunfire in separate attacks over the weekend across Chicago.
Officers taped off the intersection of 117th place and Michigan Avenue. A handful of evidence markers littered the road.
Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-TimesOfficers block the 11700 block of South Michigan late Sunday for a shooting investigation.
Ashley Santiago said she was enjoying the night breeze in her car in front of her home when she saw a woman walking down Michigan with her kids. Suddenly, she heard gunshots.
“They just went off. I ducked down in my car and I was like, ‘That’s not fireworks,’ ” she said. “I heard someone got shot, and I thought, ‘I hope it’s not the lady that I just seen with the kids.’ ”
Ashley’s aunt, Alexandra Santiago, said she also heard the shots from inside their home. She told her young children to get away from the windows and get on the floor.
The women say shootings in the area are “an everyday thing, without fail. It doesn’t matter what time of day it is.”
Alexandra Santiago said the violence in the area concerns her greatly, not only for herself, but for her loved ones.
“I worry for my mom. When I step out or go to work, I worry for myself. These are our windows right here,” she said. “We’re all the time throwing ourselves down, saying, ‘Go into the other room, go into the dining room.’ ”
The two mothers lamented not being able to let their children out to play whenever they want.
“We can’t really let our kids come out and come play because stuff like this is happening,” Ashley Santiago said.
No one was in custody for the shooting. Area Two detectives are investigating.
A teenage boy was shot June 6, 2021, in Burnside. | Sun-Times file photo
He was standing outside about 6:47 p.m. near the intersection of Lyon and Evans avenues when someone opened fire, striking him in the leg, Chicago police said.
A 15-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting Sunday in Burnside on the South Side.
He was standing outside about 6:47 p.m. near the intersection of Lyon and Evans avenues when someone opened fire, striking him in the leg, Chicago police said.
The teen was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where his condition was stabilized, police said.
Chicago police work the scene where an 11-year-old girl was shot in the 11700 block of South Michigan late Sunday. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times
The drive-by attack happened about 9 p.m. near 117th Place and Michigan Avenue.
A drive-by shooting left an 11-year-old girl seriously wounded Sunday night in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Witnesses told police someone opened fire from a red vehicle about 9 p.m. in the 11700 block of South Michigan, according to Chicago police.
The girl was hit in the lower back, police said. A family member drove her to Roseland Community Hospital, where she was listed in serious condition.
A person who said they’re related to the wounded child declined to comment at the hospital. She’s among more than 40 people hit by gunfire in separate attacks over the weekend across Chicago.
No one was in custody for the shooting. Area Two detectives are investigating.
Hendricks went 6 1/3 innings and Patrick Wisdom hit two more home runs in the Cubs’ 4-3 victory, which avoided a four-game sweep.
SAN FRANCISCO – The Cubs needed some length out of Kyle Hendricks on Sunday after three short starts from Zach Davies, Jake Arrieta and Kohl Stewart. But after a lot of loud contact against Hendricks in the first three innings of the Cubs’ 4-3 win over the Giants, it didn’t look like he’d be able to make it through five either.
But the Cubs’ right-hander battled and despite allowing three early runs, he found another gear in the fourth inning as his next three innings looked completely different from the first three.
Hendricks retired 11 of the final 12 batters he faced and didn’t allow another hit after the third inning. He finished the game going 6 1/3 innings allowing three runs on seven hits with three walks and five strikeouts.
“This is a good stretch,” Hendricks said. “You want to play the good teams. It elevates your level of competition and elevates your game.”
Hendricks played stopper for the Cubs, helping to end their three-game losing streak and helping give the team’s bullpen a breather. He now has a quality start in six of his last seven outings and has won his last five starts.
“We’ve taxed that bullpen really hard,” manager David Ross said. “He picked us up today well we could just use sort of the back end guys and luckily they were fresh and able to get some big outs but nice performance by Kyle
“That’s always my focus,” he said. “Always want to go out there and go deep into the ballgame and keep my pitch count down. And I’ve been doing a pretty good job of it.”
Baez leaves game with hand injury
Shortstop Javy Baez was removed from the game in the seventh inning of Sunday’s game against the Giants with a right hand injury.
During his final at-bat in the sixth inning, Baez grounded out sharply to first base, but after making contact, the Cubs’ shortstop never left the batter’s box and shook out his right hand.
“Where that ball hit, hitting off the end [of the bat] sometimes just gives you a little jolt in the hand area,” Ross said. “We’ll check him out and see how he is tomorrow.”
Pederson out of the lineup for Cubs
Joc Pederson was not in the lineup for the Cubs series finale against the Giants on Sunday dealing with tightness in the right side of his back.
Pederson crashed into the left-field wall in the third inning of Saturday’s loss attempting to chase down Alex Dickerson’s home run before being removed from the game in the fifth inning.
“[He’s doing] much better,” Ross said before the game. “Talking to him this morning, it was smart to come out and make sure everything was all right. He did some work at the back end of the game [on Saturday]. Got some work done last night and feels much better today. Hopefully, things will continue to move in the right direction, but I think he’s going to be okay.”
Zobrist not auctioning World Series ring
Former Cub Ben Zobrist is not auctioning his 2016 World Series ring, according to reports. Zobrist’s agent, Scott Pucino, told the Chicago Tribune that the 2016 World Series MVP isn’t auctioning the ring after Heritage Auctions announced the sale on Friday.
Mayor Otis “Douda” Perry’s plan to defund the police involves community support. | Showtime
Following the plan from Mayor Douda, Trig and Tracy lead a successful de-escalation with no law enforcement involvement.
SPOILER ALERT: This recap of Season 4, Episode 3 contains explicit plot details.
On “The Chi,” a plan by Mayor Douda (Curtiss Cook) to defund the police formulates as Community Protection, a program where citizens who have experience in de-escalating conflict are sent to answer mental health calls instead of cops.
Instead of “calling a crackhead,” as pro-police groups often suggest to people seeking an alternative to the current iteration of law enforcement, Douda, his aide Trig (Luke James), and Trig’s girlfriend Tracy (Tai Davis) have other ideas.
Trig and Tracy respond to a call where a man (played by Chicago rapper Vic Mensa) is in the midst of a violent confrontation with his girlfriend. The situation is defused without further violence.
In real life, plans like Douda’s seem to be working well enough to explore further.
ShowtimeTracy (Tai Davis) takes her relationship with Douda to a new level.
Denver officials executed a six-month trial where mental health officials were sent to emergency calls instead of police officers, and saw positive results where the city’s Support Team Assisted Response, or STAR, responded to 750 calls without arrests.
And, locally, CeaseFire Illinois held a similar preemptive role within Chicago’s marginalized communities until the group’s funding was cut.
One of the cautionary tales of law enforcement’s response to emergency calls pertaining to mental health episodes took place in Chicago in 2015, when police officer Robert Rialmo fatally shot Quintonio LeGrier, a 19-year-old college student, and Bettie Jones, a neighbor who opened the door for the police.
The shootings took place a month after the city was ordered to release the Laquan McDonald shooting video.
In 2016, as the Dallas police chief, David Brown — the current Chicago police superintendent — said: “We’re asking cops to do too much in this country. Every societal failure, we put it off on the cops to solve. Not enough mental health funding? Let the cops handle it. Not enough drug addiction funding? Let’s give it to the cops.”
Some concerned citizens in marginalized communities aren’t interested in pleading with public officials to fix systemic issues as Douda, Trig and Tracy suggested — and their plan seems to take a lot off the plate of the police. (Historically, some folks would rather call a family member instead of the police.)
‘Products of their environment’
Episode three of season four, named “Native Son,” is possibly an ode to Richard Wright’s 1940 novel of the same name that provides nuance regarding the criminal actions of Bigger Thomas, the main character. The impetus for most of the series’ main storylines stems from a murder of teenage boy. The series’ main characters all react to the tragedy in one way, shape, or form. Due to neighborhood circumstances, the series’ characters often make decisions based on location — they often play out in a variety of ways.
‘We make a great team’
Douda and Tracy’s attraction toward each other was solidified in this episode as the two take their working relationship to the next level. In the midst of it all, Roselyn (Kandi Burruss) walks in and tells them she likes to watch. Remember, in the season premiere, when Tracy met with Roselyn, she told the budding activist: “I don’t mind sharing.”
‘When a Black woman get quiet, you should be scared’
Tiff (played by Hannaha Hall) has a lot to process after Emmett (Jacob Latimore) discloses that he’s been unfaithful to her. She sleeps with her business partner, Dante (Cory Hardrict); tells Emmett about it; has a heart-to-heart conversation with Dom (La La Anthony), her new business partner and Emmett’s “entanglement” partner, and comes to a revelation that could salvage her marriage.
After taking in some advice she received about her current situation, Tiff tells Emmett she wants an open marriage, and he seems to be amenable to keeping an open mind to it.
5 things we learned from Episode 3:
Jada (played by Yolonda Ross) hasn’t told Emmett about her cancer diagnosis.
SAN FRANCISCO – It’s getting harder and harder to put into words what third baseman Patrick Wisdom is doing at the plate for the Cubs.
When Wisdom was brought up from Triple-A Iowa on May 25, it appeared that he would just be a stopgap until the team got healthy. But after turning into one of the hottest hitters in baseball over the last two weeks, it doesn’t look like Wisdom will be going anywhere anytime soon.
It’s not just the fact that Wisdom has been on a tear over the past two weeks, but when the team needs a big swing, he’s been at the plate.
“He’s been carrying us,” manager David Ross said. “It feels like he’s been the real offensive force for us, right now.”
Few things went right for the Cubs during their first three games against the Giants, but leave it to the red-hot Wisdom to help make sure they left the Bay Area with something to feel good about.
Wisdom’s two-homer game not only powered Sunday’s 4-3 win, but he continued to put himself on the map as a player who’s looking to do damage.
“I think it’s just slowing down,” Wisdom said. “Those homers, I think they come when I’m not trying to do too much. … I think when the homers come, it’s just being relaxed and looking for the pitch I can drive and looking for something in the zone.”
Wisdom got the Cubs on the board after they fell behind 2-0 by launching a solo shot to straightaway center field to cut the Giants lead in half.
But with the way he’s been swinging the bat, it was only a matter of time before he did it again. The moment came in his next at-bat, crushing a 422-foot, two-run homer to center to tie the game at 3 and sending the Cubs’ dugout into a frenzy. It was Wisdom’s sixth home run in seven games, his seventh homer in eight starts and his second multi-homer game of the season.
“That was incredible. The guy hits a homer every time,” center fielder Ian Happ said. “The guy’s got seven pumps already and he hasn’t even been here that long. Some of us are looking at the scoreboard and going, ‘Shoot, we’ve been here a minute and we don’t have that many. Oh my God.'”
“He’s locked in right now,” said Kyle Hendricks, who won his fifth consecutive start. “He really couldn’t be any better and as a pitcher, that makes it really frustrating when guys take the really good pitches. Then if you do make a mistake, it’s a homerun.”
Wisdom isn’t 21 or 22 years old like your average rookie. He’s 29, and after having multiple stops along the way before ultimately getting to the Cubs, saying his current hot streak was unexpected would be an understatement.
“Definitely given us more than I think we expected,” Ross said. “That would be a true statement. He’s come in and filled in really nicely and almost carried us here for a little while and kept that lineup turning over there towards the middle.”
While others might not be able to put their finger on why Wisdom is having success, he feels his comfort in the Cubs’ clubhouse has helped him feel at ease, which is clearly transferring to his play on the field.
“I’m thankful for my time in baseball,” Wisdom said. “I think more than anything, it’s just knowing that I can play this game. But fitting right in and I think it’s not only me, but I think it’s a team that I got to give credit to, because they allow you to come in and be yourself and they make you one of the guys right away. So it’s been really cool.”
Williams was known for his role as the cool undercover cop Linc Hayes on the counterculture series “The Mod Squad” and Prince’s father in “Purple Rain.” | Matt Sayles/Invision/AP
He died Friday at his home in Los Angeles after a battle with colon cancer.
Clarence Williams III, who played the cool undercover cop Linc Hayes on the counterculture series “The Mod Squad” and Prince’s father in “Purple Rain,” has died. He was 81.
Williams died Friday at his home in Los Angeles after a battle with colon cancer, his manager Allan Mindel said Sunday.
A native of New York, Williams’ career spanned over five decades in theater, television and film. He was born into a creative family in 1939 and raised by his musical grandparents. His grandfather was a jazz composer and pianist, his father a musician and his mother, Eva Taylor, a singer and actress. He got his acting start on Broadway after a stint as a paratrooper and received a Tony nomination for his role in William Hanley’s “Slow Dance on the Killing Ground” in 1964.
His breakout role would come with “The Mod Squad,” which he led with Peggy Lipton and Michael Cole. Bill Cosby had seen Williams perform and told Aaron Spelling he should consider him for the role of Linc. The show ran from on ABC from 1968 through 1973. A trailblazing show for attempting to portray the hippie generation of the time, “The Mod Squad” was a star-maker for all three. But roles were not quick to follow for Williams.
ABCPeggy Lipton, Michael Cole and Clarence Williams III on “The Mod Squad” in 1968.
He appeared on Broadway opposite Maggie Smith in Tom Stoppard’s “Night and Day” in 1979 before getting cast as the troubled father in “Purple Rain,” which came out in 1984.
Director John Frankenheimer would become a frequent collaborator. They first teamed up for his adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s “52 Pick-Up” at a time when Williams was not having much luck in Hollywood and crashing on Cosby’s couch to keep a roof over his head.
“He asked me to read for the part of one of the blackmailers, but after only four lines, he told me to stop,” Williams recalled in a 1999 interview. “I thought it was all over, but he said, ‘Have your agent call me. It will be a 10-week shoot. Thank you for coming in.’ That was it.”
Williams also appeared in Frankenheimer’s “Against the Wall,” “Reindeer Games” and some episodes of “Tales from the Crypt.”
Williams could command a variety of genres, including comedy. He played a drug lord opposite Dave Chappelle in “Half Baked” and stole scenes in Keenen Ivory Wayans’ blaxploitation parody film “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka.” He also had a recurring role as the FBI agent in David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” who tells Agent Cooper he’s been suspended.
Williams never fretted over his longtime association with “The Mod Squad.”
“All most people know about me is the two hours they’ve invested in a movie theater or the time spent in front of their TV,” he said in an interview in 1999. “There’s so much entertainment out there right now, it’s difficult to break through and become part of the national consciousness. It’s nice to be recognized, and I have no problem with it at all.”
He was married to the actress Gloria Foster from 1967 to 1984.
Two carjacking were reported June 6, 2021, in Mount Greenwood and Beverly. | Sun-Times file photo
Police said the two incidents are believed to be related.
Police are warning residents in Mount Greenwood and Beverly of two armed carjacking Sunday that are believed to be related.
The first incident happened about 3:40 a.m. in the parking lot of a restaurant in the 3100 block of West 103rd Street, Chicago police said. Three suspects demanded a person’s vehicle at gunpoint.
Two witnesses inside the restaurant tried to help the victim, but were robbed by the gunmen as they exited the restaurant, police said. One of the gunman fired shots but did not strike anyone. The trio fled in the victim’s Blue Kia.
2 armed vehicular carjackings occurred in @ChicagoCAPS22 today. The two crimes may be related. Witnesses assisted victims and were robbed by the 3 carjackers who discharged their weapon. No injuries. The 2nd carjacking involved an @Uber_Support@lyft victim. #ChicagoPolicepic.twitter.com/6E6PYFgtKy
About 5 a.m., the Kia stolen in the earlier incident was used in the carjacking of a ride-share driver who was waiting for his customers in the 10200 block of South Oakley Avenue, police said.
The suspects were described as three males between 16 and 18 years old wearing dark clothing.
Anyone with information was asked to call Area Two detectives at 312-747-8273.
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