Chicago Sun-Times - All2019-06-06T11:33:34-05:00https://chicago.suntimes.com/rss/stream/184192452019-06-06T11:33:34-05:002019-06-06T13:08:00-05:00Brittany Hill shooting video leaked; family demands answers, files suit against city
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<img class="Image" alt="James Hill talks to reporters outside CPD headquarters Thursday morning" srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/dde89e4/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5001x2807+0+264/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F3HjQ_DOUJFrkoVQEWcsdrYLccnY%3D%2F0x0%3A5001x3334%2F5001x3334%2Ffilters%3Afocal%283009x473%3A3010x474%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F16323951%2FBRITTANY_060719_01.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/22764e8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5001x2807+0+264/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F3HjQ_DOUJFrkoVQEWcsdrYLccnY%3D%2F0x0%3A5001x3334%2F5001x3334%2Ffilters%3Afocal%283009x473%3A3010x474%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F16323951%2FBRITTANY_060719_01.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>James Hill talks outside Chicago police headquarters Thursday as Brittany Hill’s mother, Verniece, holds Brittany’s son, Amarion Hill, 7.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Rich Hein/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>James Hill didn’t want to be standing in front of Chicago police headquarters Thursday morning, but he and a dozen others were there all the same. </p><p>“I’m just a dad hurting,” he said, as a single tear — one that would be far from the last — streamed down his left cheek. </p><p>Hill, other family members, supporters and faith leaders were outside Chicago Police Department headquarters at 35<sup>th</sup> Street and Michigan Avenue to announce that Brittany Hill’s family will pursue legal action against the city after video footage of her murder was leaked last week. No litigation has yet been filed, but the family’s attorney said that “we are pursuing a lawsuit of some sort.”</p><p>Brittany Hill, 24, was holding her 1-year-old daughter and talking with two men in the 1200 block of North Mason Avenue shortly before 9 a.m. on May 28. That’s when, authorities say, Michael Washington and Eric Adams pulled up in a Chevrolet Impala and opened fire on the group.</p><p>She was shot several times. In the leaked video, she can be seen hobbling behind a car while still holding her baby as two men continue to fire their guns.</p><p>“She made me proud because she gave her life in the same way I would’ve given mine,” her father said.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Brittany Hill’s daughter Ja’Miley Jones, 1, is held by her uncle Lorinson Stephens outside Chicago Police Department headquarters Thursday.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Rich Hein/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>A passerby eventually took Brittany Hill to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where she was pronounced dead. She lived within a few blocks from where she was shot.</p><p>Neither her baby — who was at the news conference — nor the men she was with were wounded.</p><p>The apparent targets of the shooting are believed to be the people Brittany Hill was standing with, authorities said. Hill had been talking with her daughter’s 23-year-old father, who was seated in a parked car in the block, and with two other men, ages 19 and 26.</p><p>Washington and Adams were arrested in downstate Urbana just hours after the shooting. They were ordered held without bail.</p><p>Activist and former mayoral candidate Ja’Mal Green, who knew Brittany Hill, said there “was no reason for the video to be released at all,” especially given that police had already taken Washington and Adams into custody.</p><p>Green said Brittany Hill’s family first learned of the video as they were in church last Sunday.</p><p>Shortly after the leak, the CPD announced it would be conducting an investigation to learn how it got out.</p><p>“We need to see some real action,” Green said.</p><p>James Hill said Thursday that he forgave the two men accused of killing his daughter “because that’s who I raised her to be.”</p><p>Her father said that Brittany Hill, who also had a 7-year-old son, was the youngest of his seven children. She was in the final stages of getting a job with the Chicago Public Library, he said.</p><p>She was not the first child James Hill has lost. His oldest, another girl, died of SIDS.</p><p>The video of her death appears to slightly contradict the version of events set forth by prosecutors at the bond hearings for Washington and Adams.</p><p>Prosecutors said Washington, 39, fired from the front passenger seat of the Chevrolet Impala, but the video shows two men standing outside of the vehicle when they open fire.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Brittany Hill’s mother, Verniece, holds Brittany’s son, Amarion Hill, 7, outside Chicago Police Department headquarters Thursday.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Rich Hein/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019/6/6/18655379/brittany-hill-shooting-video-leaked-family-sues-citySam Charles2019-05-30T12:55:18-05:002019-06-06T09:11:54-05:00Brittany Hill murder suspects charged: 2 men arrested in shooting of mother who died protecting baby
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Michael Washington (top right) and Eric Adams have been charged in the murder of Brittany Hill.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Facebook; Police</p></div></div>
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<p>Moments before two men opened fired on a young mother holding her infant child earlier this week in Austin, the 1-year-old held up her hand, smiled and waved at them as they drove up, prosecutors said. </p><p>Despite that, 39-year-old Michael Washington fired from the passenger seat of the Chevrolet Impala into the group of people the mother was standing with shortly before 9 a.m. in the 1200 block of North Mason, authorities said. </p><p>Brittany Hill, 24, was almost immediately struck by one of the bullets in the abdomen, but was able to keep hold of her child and then turned to shield her baby from further gunfire, prosecutors said. </p><p>Washington and 23-year-old Eric Adams, who was driving, stopped the car, a silver Chevy Impala, got out and continued to fire at the fleeing victims, prosecutors said. </p><p>As the others in the group ran off, Hill staggered away and fell at the back of a parked car, where she continued to shield her daughter, prosecutors said. </p><p>Judge John F. Lyke Jr. denied bail for both men when they appeared at an initial hearing Thursday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on charges of first-degree murder in Hill’s death. </p><p>Lyke called the shooting “chilling, mind-boggling and utterly senseless,” and appeared to choke up as he recounted how Hill had protected her baby. </p><p>“This mother, even though shot, was still trying to protect her child,” Lyke said. </p><p>Hill’s 1-year-old daughter survived the attack and Hill’s <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019/5/28/18642841/brittany-hill-killed-saving-daughter-austin-homicid-gun-violence" target="_blank" >actions to protect the girl as she faced the violent onslaught</a> have been praised as heroic. </p><p>Prosecutors said the shooting was captured by Chicago police POD surveillance cameras and that Washington and Hill could both be clearly seen in the footage. </p><p>The apparent targets of the shooting are believed to be the people Hill was standing with when the shots rang out, authorities said. Hill had been talking with her daughter’s 23-year-old father, who was seated in a parked car in the block, and with two other men, ages 19 and 26. </p><p>Once Washington and Adams finally left, prosecutors said the 23-year-old father could been seen on video surveillance head back to his car with a gun and chase after the shooters, who he eventually lost sight of in Oak Park. </p><p>A passerby picked Hill up in their car and rushed her to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, but she was pronounced dead shortly after arriving, authorities said. </p><p>The Impala’s license plate was matched to a recent traffic stop in which Washington was the driver, prosecutors said. </p><p>Washington and Adams, both of Urbana, were taken into custody five hours after the shooting in the downstate city, authorities said. </p><p>When Chicago police called to alert authorities they were looking for Washington and Adams, Champaign police told them they were preparing to stake out Washington’s Urbana home in order to serve a search warrant of their own in connection with a drug investigation, prosecutors said. </p><p>Both men arrived back at the home about 2 p.m. Thursday and were driving the car allegedly used in the shooting, as well as wearing the same clothes as the offenders recorded on video surveillance, prosecutors said. The search of the home resulted in police seizing 62 grams of marijuana, 1.4 grams of heroin, a ballistic vest and $1,300 in cash. </p><p>Neither man is a stranger to the criminal justice system, prosecutors said. </p><p>Washington has nine felony convictions, including for a 2004 second-degree murder charge and a 2001 battery charge that was reduced from attempted murder in a plea agreement, prosecutors said. He was on parole for a drug conviction at the time of the shooting. </p><p>State Department of Corrections records show he was paroled in March 2018 after serving time at the Lincoln Correctional Center. </p><p>Adams, prosecutors said, is currently serving a two-year probation sentence after he was convicted of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon last year. </p><p>Attorney William Luby, who represented both men at the hearing, said Washington was employed full-time, lived with his sister and has a ninth-grade education. Adams completed the 11th grade, lives with his mother and was employed in various temporary staffing positions, he said. </p><p></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019/5/30/18645381/mom-protecting-baby-murder-brittany-hill-austin-michael-washington-eric-adams-urbana-champaignMatthew HendricksonAlison Martin2019-05-29T02:07:03-05:002019-06-06T09:11:39-05:00Daily Shootings Roundup, May 28: 3 killed, 5 wounded Tuesday in Chicago shootings
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Police investigate the scene on the 606 trail near the 1800 block of North Monticello where Alejandro Aguado, 22, was shot and killed Tuesday morning.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>8 people were shot — three of them fatally — Tuesday in Chicago, including a man who was shot by police in South Chicago </p><p>Officers attempted to arrest the man about 1:45 p.m. in a driveway in the 8100 block of South Chappel Avenue after mistaking him for his brother, who was wanted for <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/4/15/18419926/1-killed-1-wounded-in-roseland-shooting" target="_blank" >the May 14 shooting death of 15-year-old Jaylin Ellzey</a>, Sgt. Rocco Alioto and police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.</p><p>The man allegedly pulled out a handgun while officers went to take him into custody while he sat in a vehicle, Alioto said. <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019/5/28/18643082/chicago-police-shooting-south-side-chappel-killed" target="_blank" >An officer then shot him.</a></p><p>The man was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition and later pronounced dead, Alioto said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not released his name.</p><p>On the West Side, a woman was fatally shot while trying to protect her baby from gunfire in Austin.</p><p>Brittany Hill, 24, was talking with two acquaintances about 8:50 a.m. outside a car in the 1200 block of North Mason Avenue while holding her one-year-old daughter, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Two males then drove up in a silver Chevy Impala, got out of the car and <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019/5/28/18642841/woman-baby-austin-homicide-mason-drive-gun-violence" target="_blank" >shot Hill in the upper body</a> while she tried to hide behind other parked vehicles, shielding her baby all the while.</p><p>She was taken to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where she was pronounced dead at 9:25 a.m., authorities said. Hill lived in the block where she was shot.</p><p>The baby wasn’t injured and is with other family members, police said.</p><p>Just after midnight Tuesday, three people were shot on the 606 trail in Logan Square, including a man who died while trying to shield his two friends.</p><p>Alejandro Aguado, 22, was walking with two friends about 12:10 a.m. on the 606 trail in the 1800 block of North Monticello Avenue, police and the medical examiner’s office said. There, they were approached by three males <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/5/28/18643135/fatal-shooting-606-trail" target="_blank" >who asked for their gang affiliation before firing at them.</a></p><p>Aguado was shot in the chest and back and pronounced dead at Norwegian Hospital, police said. A 20-year-old man was taken to Stroger Hospital with a gunshot wound to the lower backside and his condition was stabilized while a 19-year-old woman suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition. </p><p>“This was a pretty heinous attack against individuals who have no involvement in criminal gangs from what we can tell,” Guglielmi said. The shooting is being investigated as a random incident and no one is in custody.</p><p>In non-fatal shootings Tuesday, three more people were injured in three separate incidents, including:<br></p><ul><li id="YNEpIf">A man shot while trying to rob a 67-year-old man about 3:30 p.m. in the 2800 block of West Belmont Avenue in Avondale on the Northwest Side;</li><li id="na8JHK">A 29-year-old man shot in the foot at 1:27 p.m. in the 5000 block of West Gladys Avenue in Austin on the West Side; and</li><li id="zkG1wt">A 30-year-old man shot twice in the arm about 3:10 a.m. in the 1400 block of North Mohawk Street in Old Town on the North Side. </li></ul><p>Tuesday’s shootings follow a <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019/5/26/18639572/41-wounded-7-killed-shootings-may-24-may-27-memorial-day-weekend-gun-violence-police-cpd" target="_blank" >violent Memorial Day weekend</a> in which 41 people were shot and seven killed in Chicago.</p><p><i>Read more on</i><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/section/crime/" target="_blank" ><i> crime</i></a><i>, and track the city’s</i><a class="Link" href="https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/?_ga=2.268161100.359989542.1551114885-1053806772.1520361305" target="_blank" ><i> homicides</i></a><i>.</i></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019/5/29/18643810/chicago-shootings-may-28-2019-roseland-austin-logan-square-606-trailSun-Times Wire2019-05-28T17:15:13-05:002019-06-06T09:11:48-05:00Brittany Hill shot to death protecting infant daughter
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<p>A mother who was shot to death while holding her baby is being called a hero after she protected the child from being hurt.</p><p>Brittany Hill, 24, was talking with two acquaintances outside a car in the 1200 block of North Mason Avenue while holding her one-year-old daughter, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.</p><p>Two males drove up in a silver Chevy Impala, got out of the car and shot Hill in the upper body about 8:50 a.m., authorities said.</p><p>During the incident, Hill tried to hide behind other parked vehicles while shielding the baby, authorities said. </p><p>Someone who drove by took her to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where she was pronounced dead at 9:25 a.m. Hill lived in the block where she was shot.</p><p>The baby wasn’t injured and is with other family members, police said. </p><p>Hill was a childhood friend of activist and former mayoral candidate Ja’Mal Green, who called Hill a “hero” for saving her child.</p><p>“When she saw the shooter she shielded her 1-year-old and saved her life and fell on top of her,” Green wrote. “She loved her kids, now you’re their hero from heaven!”</p><p>Police are investigating the shooting as a possibly targeted attack of the people that were standing next to her. Police said they have found the silver Chevy Impala connected to the shooting.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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