Monday, June 9, 2008

* Person Murdered at Subway Citgo on Touhy (Update)

'Broken Heart' Exclusive


One person is in critical condition after being shot 4 times at the Citgo Gas Station located at Sheridan and Touhy Avenue in beautiful Rogers Park this evening. The shooting occurred near the lake front in broad daylight around 6:30 PM, tonight. At least one of the bullets managed it's way in to the offenders neck. Other body parts were hit as well.

Allegedly the police are looking for a red Dodge mini-van with Wisconsin plates after reviewing the video monitors at the gas station. A silver van on the scene is part of the crime and is being investigated by CSI at this time. The victim was transported to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston.

With over a dozen squads on scene - dispatch listed this as a "Plan 2." Nothing further.

Update 9:00 PM: Looks like this is now a murder at the gas pump. The victim was taken in critical condition to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arriving. His identity was not being released Monday pending notification of family members, according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office. Source.

20 comments:

Craig Gernhardt said...

Ever wonder why the 49th Ward "Satellite Service Office" does not stop at Citgo?

Mark Fletcher said...

Where the fuck is Joe Moore!

Goddammit, our neighborhood is going to pot now that those dirty 'Sconnies are running about whacking people.

If you see a Cheesehead, run like fuck!

Dennis said...

there are often kids in the park across the street.

Joe is going to act like "This wasn't my fault" but it is, it is. Because if this is a gang fight for territory then Joe's refusal to crack down on gangs and criminal activity in Rogers Park is as much a part of the killing as was the vehicle that the murderer drove to get away.

The way for Joe to wash this blood off of his hands is to let the Chicago police do what they do best: crack down on crime. Let them make life miserable for the criminal elements and this will go away. Quit tying the hands of the police, Joe, and maybe things will get better.

I'm sure that the people of Rogers Park can soon expect a press conference from their esteemed alderman at that corner. And he will wring his hands and say what a shame this is and see all that I've done.

Yes, Joe, everyone sees all that you have done.

Hugh said...

are they sure foul play was involved?

meg said...

Tribune says possibly gang-related... which means, very likely gang-related.

The deceased was a resident of Uptown - 4600 Block.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-gas-station-shooting-web-jun10,0,6091760.story

Craig Gernhardt said...

Brandon Arnold, 26, of the 4600 block of North Kenmore Avenue, was filling his vehicle with gas around 6:30 p.m. at a Citgo station at Sheridan Road and Touhy Avenue when an unidentified gunman opened fire and fled.

Police said the assailant was perhaps in a maroon or red van.

Craig Gernhardt said...

Pumping gas in Rogers Park poses a serious danger.

Craig Gernhardt said...

If Joe shops at the Citgo it must be safe.

CITGO
7138 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago, IL 60626
$50.00
8/23/2007 Expenditure
Citizens for Joe Moore gas expense
Citizens for Joe Moore

CITGO
7138 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago, IL 60626
$50.00
8/23/2007 Expenditure
Citizens for Joe Moore gas expense
Citizens for Joe Moore

CITGO
7138 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago, IL 60626
$50.00
8/23/2007 Expenditure
Citizens for Joe Moore gas expense
Citizens for Joe Moore

CITGO
7138 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago, IL 60626
$50.00
8/23/2007 Expenditure
Citizens for Joe Moore gas expense
Citizens for Joe Moore

CITGO
7138 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago, IL 60626
$50.00
8/23/2007 Expenditure
Citizens for Joe Moore gas expense
Citizens for Joe Moore

CITGO
7138 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago, IL 60626
$17.00
8/28/2007 Expenditure
Citizens for Joe Moore gas expense
Citizens for Joe Moore

CITGO
7138 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago, IL 60626
$49.00
10/17/2007 Expenditure
Citizens for Joe Moore gas expense
Citizens for Joe Moore

CITGO
7138 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago, IL 60626
$50.00
10/17/2007 Expenditure
Citizens for Joe Moore gas expense
Citizens for Joe Moore

CITGO
7138 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago, IL 60626
$50.00
10/17/2007 Expenditure
Citizens for Joe Moore gas expense
Citizens for Joe Moore

CITGO
7138 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago, IL 60626
$50.00
10/17/2007 Expenditure
Citizens for Joe Moore gas expense
Citizens for Joe Moore

CITGO
7138 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago, IL 60626
$48.00
11/24/2007 Expenditure
Citizens for Joe Moore gas expense
Citizens for Joe Moore

Clark St. said...

Anyone know why a bicycle is inside the crime scene tape?

Craig Gernhardt said...

Those are the police bike patrol bikes.

MadeInRogersPark said...

This is very disturbing as there are baseball games going on at this time right across the street. Guns and children are a reciepe for more tragedy!
Does this mean crime is down?

Veronica said...

They're lucky that any of the bullets didn't hit the car's gas tank...that would not have been good. Kaboom!

Clark St. said...

V & J: You watch too many bad movies & TV shows.
Gasoline doesn't explode when a bullet punctures a tank it's stored in.
It would require a spark or flame to cause it to catch fire, but it's the fumes that explode.
An empty tank is more likely to explode than a full one.

Hugh said...

oops!

there go the stats

any chance the vic was old enough he might've died anyway last night?

chef joe said...

How come Joe's gas is always $50.00?

billyjoe said...

"Studies show that recipients of Section8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods. One recent study publicized by HUD warned that policy makers should lower their expectations, because voucher recipients seemed not to be spreading out, as they had hoped, but clustering together. Galster theorizes that every neighborhood has its tipping point—a threshold well below a 40 percent poverty rate—beyond which crime explodes and other severe social problems set in. Pushing a greater number of neighborhoods past that tipping point is likely to produce more total crime. In 2003, the Brookings Institution published a list of the 15 cities where the number of high-poverty neighborhoods had declined the most. In recent years, most of those cities have also shown up as among the most violent in the U.S., according to FBI data."


http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/memphis-crime?ca=NqTJl5tHooxWMZidIYnSrqNvzcHr2DX4xtVBXDIjzZY%3D

Hillari said...

My late younger sister worked not too far away from where that Citgo is located. She told me during warm weather, there was always drug and/or gang activity going on in the park across the way. She witnessed a drive-by once that scattered a group of guys who were playing basketball nearby.

This shooting might have been drug or gang related, but then, it might have been a case of mistaken identity, too, which is just as bad. Welcome to summer in the city, folks. No neighborhood is immune from this.

Kheris said...

We may not be immune to crime, but that doesn't mean we have to roll over like doormats.

Hugh said...

"How come Joe's gas is always $50.00?"

it's written up as fill-ups but it's really

1. campaign contributions to Citizens for Hugo Chavez

2. Joe is paying campaign workers with Citgo gift cards

3. your guess here

Anonymous said...

3. Joe uses Bank of America with the "Keep The Change" program.

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