Arrest Made in Killing of North Liberty Man in Chicago
By Jeff Raasch The Gazette & KCRG
By
Becky Ogann
Story Created:
Jul 6, 2009 at 12:07 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Jul 6, 2009 at 12:07 PM CDT
CHICAGO - Chicago police have made an arrest and recovered weapons after the shooting death of a North Liberty resident early Sunday.
Phillip Straight, 22, of 10 Penn Oaks Dr. in North Liberty, and Loweton Harmon, 26, of Chicago, were shot and killed while they were in a vehicle in on Chicago’s south side, police said.
Officer Robert Perez, a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department, said Straight was a passenger in the vehicle in the 1200 block of East 63rd Street when another vehicle pulled up and someone opened fire just before 2 a.m.
“We don’t know what the motive behind this is,” Perez said.
Straight and Harmon died at the scene of multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Perez said police chased the suspects by vehicle after the shots were fired, but the vehicle was in an accident, and three people ran from it. One person, a male in his 20s, was arrested.
Charges are pending for his involvement in the incident, police said.
Perez said two weapons were also recovered from the area.
It is unclear why Straight was in Chicago.
Part of a Violent Weekend in Chicago
Straight and Harmon are among 10 people killed and at least 30 wounded on Chicago's streets over the weekend.
The fatalities included four people killed in shootings and stabbings during a six-hour span late Saturday into early Sunday, and four more died late Sunday into early Monday.
The latest victims include Everette Snow, 18, who was shot in the head outside his home in what police called a domestic dispute just before 1 a.m. Monday.
In another attack early Monday, police say Kenneth Crawford, 38, was shot multiple times on a porch in the city's Englewood neighborhood.
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