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Three Homicides in Five Days

5 months 3 days ago - 5 months 3 days ago #1 by Justin Kerr

Three Homicides in Five Days was created by Justin Kerr

Here's a digest of some recent coverage of unfortunate homicidal gun violence that has plagued the McKinley Park neighborhood recently:

At 12:40 a.m. on Saturday, June 25, 30-year-old Marco Diaz was shot and killed near the intersection of West 36th Street and South Hamilton Avenue. The Chicago Sun-Times offers an article with some basics , and Univision covered family and community reaction in a televised Spanish-language news segment .
Around 10:29 p.m. on Tuesday, June 28, a 39-year-old man was shot and killed while standing on the sidewalk in the 2000 block of West 36th Street by a gunman riding a bicycle. The Chicago Sun-Times has published an article about this homicide containing basic information.
Around 10:15 p.m. on Thursday, June 30, 38-year-old Mario Leyva was found deceased from multiple gunshot wounds in an alley off the 3300 block of South Western Avenue. The Chicago Sun-Times covered this incident in a brief article about the homicide .