Oct. 04--A Chicago man was ordered held without bail Sunday after murder charges were filed in connection with a fatal shooting Sept. 19 in the Humboldt Park neighborhood that happened during the most violent two-day weekend in the city since Father's Day 2013, authorities said.
Ladarren Ball, 31, of the 200 block of North Leamington Avenue, was charged with murder, police said. Ball appeared for a bond hearing Sunday afternoon at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, where he was ordered held without bail.
The shooting happened about 6 p.m. Sept. 19 in the 1200 block of North Keeler Avenue and left 38-year-old Zika Urosevic dead, officials said.
Urosevic was on a sidewalk with a group of people when two offenders came out of an alley and began firing, police said. Urosevic, of the 4200 block of West Crystal Street, was found with a gunshot wound to the neck and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:47 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Urosevic was one of nine people killed and 45 wounded between late Sept. 19 and early Sept. 21, the most violent two-day weekend in Chicago since Father's Day 2013, according to data compiled and analyzed by the Tribune.
With the exception of the Fourth of July holiday, it marked the most violent weekend of the year. Since March, the number of gunshot victims has reached double digits every weekend, according to the data.
The weekend death toll also included 14-year-old Tyjuan Poindexter, gunned down on the street after winning permission from his reluctant mother to let him play basketball with his friends, and 18-year-old Deionte Harris, a former standout basketball player for Bogan High School. Harris was shot to death in the Gresham neighborhood just a half-mile from where a friend was slain a week before.
