Couple shot to death in West Side home
Barricade suspect in custody after 7-hour standoff
By Carlos Sadovi, Annie Sweeney and Dan Simmons
Tribune reporters
September 24, 2009
They were a father and son who lived, worked and fished together, two members of a close-knit family raised with "traditional Southern values."
But on Tuesday when Joe Washington refused his 53-year-old son's request for money -- knowing he had already burned through several hundred dollars on his cocaine habit -- he turned on him, police say.
The son, who has no criminal background, allegedly shot to death his 79-year-old father and mother, Johnnie Washington, 77, in their West Side home, several police sources said. No charges were filed by Wednesday evening.
The son fled the home in the 2200 block of South Kildare Avenue and allegedly confessed to the double murder in a 911 call to a police dispatcher, the sources said. Hours later, he walked into the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center with a gun to his head and again allegedly confessed to an employee that he had killed his parents, the sources said.
He barricaded himself in the hospital for seven hours before surrendering without a struggle to members of the Chicago Police Department's SWAT team about 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Members of the Washington family confirmed their brother was in custody. They vowed they would not abandon him.
"I want it clear. He is not a monster," the Rev. Mansa Kenyatta said as he fought back tears as he spoke of his brother. "He's still my brother, and we still love him. Our mother wouldn't want us to disown him."
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
“I’m not going to shoot, I just want some help.”
September 23, 2009
Man sought for questioning in parents' death fires shot in VA hospital
BY ROSE SOBOL AND MICHAEL LANSU Staff Reporters
Emergency crews remain on the scene of a Near West Side hospital Wednesday morning, more than five hours after a person of interest in a double-murder allegedly fired shots and holed himself the facility, authorities said.
At 5:40 a.m., police remain on the scene of the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, where a man has holed himself inside the facility with a gun, police said. No injuries have been reported.
Bobby Freeman, an admission clerk at medical center, said a man walked into the facility about 1:20 a.m. and stood behind a patient he was admitting into the hospital.
The man -- described as a 40- to 50-year old bald black man with no facial hair in a white T-shirt, blue jeans and white gym shoes -- asked for the location of the washroom and told Freeman he wanted to see a doctor, the clerk said.
The man went into the washroom, came out and walked into the emergency room, where he fired a shot into the ceiling and pointed a gun to his head, Freeman said.
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Man sought for questioning in parents death
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Man sought for questioning in parents' death fires shot in VA hospital
BY ROSE SOBOL AND MICHAEL LANSU Staff Reporters
Emergency crews remain on the scene of a Near West Side hospital Wednesday morning, more than five hours after a person of interest in a double-murder allegedly fired shots and holed himself the facility, authorities said.
At 5:40 a.m., police remain on the scene of the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, where a man has holed himself inside the facility with a gun, police said. No injuries have been reported.
Bobby Freeman, an admission clerk at medical center, said a man walked into the facility about 1:20 a.m. and stood behind a patient he was admitting into the hospital.
The man -- described as a 40- to 50-year old bald black man with no facial hair in a white T-shirt, blue jeans and white gym shoes -- asked for the location of the washroom and told Freeman he wanted to see a doctor, the clerk said.
The man went into the washroom, came out and walked into the emergency room, where he fired a shot into the ceiling and pointed a gun to his head, Freeman said.
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Man sought for questioning in parents death
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