MAN SHOT NEAR MILLENNIUM PARK
A 54- year- old man was in critical condition Saturday night after being shot in the head near Millennium Park and the Art Institute of Chicago downtown, and a man was being questioned in the shooting.
He was walking with two people around 7: 35 p. m. along Michigan Avenue when he got into an argument with another man at the northeast corner of Michigan and Monroe Street, according to the police, who said they started fighting, and the other man pulled a gun and shot him in the head.
The wounded man was taken in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
The shooter took off on a bicycle but was arrested nearby, according to police, who said detectives were questioning a “person of interest” Saturday night.
“I feel a unsafe now,” said Twion Stevens, 26, who was out for a walk near the park when he heard commotion. “It makes me worry about my daughter — she’s 4 years old and means the world to me. This is Millennium Park. Kids play here, people come here to enjoy themselves. This is sad.”
Stevens, a minister, said he moved from the South Side to get away from violence.
“Chicago needs to do better than what’s going on right now,” he said.
Frankie Cortez, 18, was near the park and “saw blood on the ground and police everywhere.”
He was visiting from Milwaukee for an event with his church called “Run for Hope.”
“This world is going crazy,” Cortez said. “Stuff is continuing to happen, and you need to bring hope to the city and hope to America.”
Jeff Olson, 34, said he was across the street from Millennium Park and saw people running.
“They kept screaming, ‘ He’s unconscious!’ “said Olson, a photographer from Wisconsin. “I crossed the street and saw him down on the ground with two women who were frantic.
“This is a crazy occurrence to happen in this area by Millennium Park,” he said. “We are all in shock.”
Jacob Wittich, Mitchell Armentrout
Valentine’s Day ’ 13 parolee charged with murdering two people last Feb. 14
A 22- year- old Chicago man — paroled last year for an armed robbery on Valentine’s Day in 2013— has been charged with killing two men on the South Side this past Valentine’s Day.
Marquise Hollerway faces two counts of first- degree murder in the Feb. 14 shooting deaths of Jeremy D. Hunter and Steven Tate.
A neighbor found the bodies of 25- year- old Hunter, who’d been shot in the head, and the 26- year- old Tate, who was shot multiple times, just before 11 a. m. Feb. 14 in an apartment in the 5000 block of South Champlain.
Witnesses told the police they saw Hollerman leave the apartment moments after hearing the gunfire, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Liam Reardon said at a hearing Saturday where a judge ordered the suspected killer held without bail.
The witnesses said Hollerman drove off in a silver car — a description that fit a car on video of a police surveillance camera, according to Reardon, who said Hollerman has a silver Mercury Sable.
Police found Hollerman’s car parked on a street two weeks later, and a forensic examination turned up traces of gunpowder residue in the car, according to Reardon.
Hunter lived on the block where he was killed. Tate lived in the 6500 block of South Drexel.
Hollerway was arrested at his home Thursday morning in the 8100 block of South Sangamon Street.
He’d been released on parole in June 2015 from the Big Muddy River Correctional Center in downstate Ina after being sentenced to a four- year prison term for the Valentine’s Day 2013 armed robbery in Chicago, according to records. Mitchell Armentrout,
Andy Grimm
Worker loses arm
A 34- year- old construction worker’s left arm was amputated near his shoulder after an accident in an elevator shaft Saturday around 4: 20 p. m. at a building under construction in the 700 block of North Hudson Avenue in River North, according to police and fire officials. They said the man was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition and undergoing surgery Saturday night.
Mitchell Armentrout