Homicides reported in Country Club Hills, Markham

Mike Nolan, Daily Southtown (Tinley Park, Ill.)
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Homicides were reported recently in Country Club Hills and Markham, according to authorities.

Also, a Hazel Crest woman was shot and killed in Chicago, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The office reported that Alonzo Butler, 44, suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the 3800 block of 171st Street in Country Club Hills.

Butler, of the 700 block of West 144th Street in Riverdale, was pronounced dead at 1:35 a.m. April 11 at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the medical examiner’s office.

The office also reported the shooting death of 43-year-old Walter Hicks in the 16500 block of Wood Street in Markham. He suffered a gunshot wound in a lower extremity.

Hicks, of the 10000 block of South Lafayette Avenue in Chicago, was pronounced dead at 7 p.m. April 12 at Advocate South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest, according to the medical examiner’s office.

The office also reported a shooting death Sunday of a 24-year-old Chicago man in the 15700 block of Central Park in Markham.

Elijah Howard, of the 8700 block of South Burley Avenue, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and the death was ruled a homicide.

He was pronounced dead at 3:38 a.m. April 13 at UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, according to the medical examiner’s office.

A 21-year-old Hazel Crest woman, Imanni Miliam, of the 17000 block of Trapet Avenue, suffered a gunshot wound to the head Saturday in the 9300 block of South Bishop Street in Chicago, according to the medical examiner’s office.

She was pronounced dead just before 9:30 p.m. at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, and her death was ruled a homicide, according to the office.

The office also reported the homicide of a Riverdale man.

Dwayne Cook Jr., 35, who lived in the 800 block of West Vermont, died of complications from multiple gunshot wounds, and his death was ruled a homicide.
The shooting took place at 722 E. 104th St., Chicago, and he died at 6:45 pm April 7 at University of Chicago Medical Center, according to the office.