MAN IN ARGUEMENT KILLED BY PASSER-BY

A man who was arguing in Normandy Boulevard with three women he knew ended up dead Saturday evening, shot by a stranger who stopped to break up the disturbance.

Joseph Scott, 23, was shot about 6:30 p.m., just east of Interstate 295 on the Westside.

Scott was arguing with the women and the other man stopped because he apparently thought the women were in trouble, said Sgt. Scott Dingee of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

The two men then got into an altercation, and Scott was shot. Scott was taken to Shands Jacksonville hospital and pronounced dead shortly after the shooting, Dingee said.

Dingee did not identify the shooter, but said he was in custody and detectives were planning to speak with him Saturday night. He said police would present the case to the State Attorney’s Office to determine if criminal charges would be filed.

Dingee would not comment on how many times the shooter fired, nor on how many times Scott was hit.

He said he could not say why Scott and the women were arguing, nor did he discuss the relationship between Scott and the women.

A white pickup truck with damage to the front end was stopped next to a pool of blood at the foot of a driveway leading into a strip mall parking lot on the 7800 block of Normandy Boulevard.

Lawrence Parker said he was on his way to the Food Lion across Normandy from the shooting when police diverted all traffic to another parking lot. He said he saw the victim on the ground and paramedics trying to revive him.

“It didn’t look like he was going to make it,” Parker said.---jacksonville.com

JILTED BOYFRIEND SHOOTS GIRLFRIEND'S HUSBAND,THEN BLOWS HIS BRAINS OUT...

A jilted lover shot and seriously wounded his ex-girlfriend's husband in a Bronx apartment building Friday night, then blew his own brains out, police and witnesses said.

Investigators said the crime of passion unfolded at 1023 Avenue St. John's shortly before 11 p.m.

The husband, Raymond Velez, who was hit three times in the upper body, ran out of the building and hailed a cab that took him to Lutheran Medical Center where doctors said he was expected to recover.

"He just took it on his own to go to the hospital," said a family friend. "He's a tough guy."

One of Velez's friends said the violence stemmed from "a love triangle thing."

She said the shooter, identified only as Omar, got involved with Velez's wife when the couple were "having some problems."

Then Velez and his spouse patched things up.

"They were back together and the guy couldn't take it," the friend said.

"He came to their apartment and shot Raymond in the hallway. Then he turned the gun on himself - on the third floor."

The couple's three kids - two boys and a girl all under 10 - were in the flat when the shooting started.


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MAN WHO MURDERED FAMILY MEMBERS ONLY REGRETS RUNNING OUT OF BULLETS....

As he ranted about his religious beliefs, a 32-year-old Wisconsin man went room to room with a 9mm pistol early Wednesday -- killing his pregnant teenage wife, his baby son and two nieces in a brick home on the Southwest Side, according to his family and Chicago Police.
Wounded in the rampage were the suspect's mother and a teenage nephew, police and family said.

Shooting suspect has history of minor crimes
A 12-year-old girl in the house managed to escape and ran to a gas station, where she called 911. The gunman shot at her as she fled but missed, police said.

About an hour and a half after the horrific 4:25 a.m. shooting in the 7200 block of South Mozart, officers were taking witnesses to a police station when they spotted the bearded, 6-foot-5-inch suspect walking near 59th and Racine, police said.

They arrested the man without a fight, and he led them to a vacant lot where he had tossed the suspected murder weapon, police said.

He told them "Allah" told him to kill his family, sources said. And he added: "Too bad I ran out of bullets."

"It's really horrendous," said Chicago Lawn District Cmdr. John Kupczyk. "Something like this is pretty incomprehensible."

The man had not been charged and was cooperating with detectives Wednesday, police said.

Killed in the massacre were the suspect's wife, Twanda Thompson, 19; their 7-month-old son, Jihad Larry, and the man's nieces, Robeson High School student Keyshai Fields, 16, and Keleasha Larry, 3, according to relatives. Keyshai Fields and Twanda Thompson both were pregnant, family members said.

Two others in the home, where the suspect's sister and her family lived, also were shot and were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. They are the suspect's mother, Leona Larry, 57, and his nephew, Demond Larry, 13, according to the suspect's relatives.

The man's family members and court records paint a troubled portrait of the suspect.

He was born in Chicago but lived in Madison, Wis., where he has amassed a long rap sheet. He was in prison in Wisconsin from 1996 to 2001 on a theft conviction and was in federal prison more recently on a gun conviction. In 2008, after serving his federal term, he was treated for marijuana addiction and worked at a bakery and in other temporary jobs, court records show.

Last year, he was arrested for battery after pushing Twanda Thompson against a van in a Wal-Mart parking lot on Sept. 25 in Madison. READ MORE AT:http://www.suntimes.com/