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Antonyo
GIPSON
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics:
Robbery
Number of victims: 3
Date of murders:
January 30,
2006
Date of birth: 1982
Victims profile: Luis
Laboy, 42; Emanuel Corona-Cruz, 18, and Jose Corona-Cruz, 21
Method of murder:
Shooting
Location: Chicago,
Illinois, USA
Status: Sentenced to
death
Suspect charged
in deaths of 3 men
By Oscar Avila and Andrew L. Wang - Chicago Tribune
February 19, 2006
Feb. 19--A Chicago man fatally shot three neighbors
fixing a car in a Humboldt Park garage last month after they didn't
comply with his demands for money because they did not speak English,
police said.
Authorities on Saturday charged Antonyo Gipson, 23,
with three counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder
and one drug-related count in the Jan. 30 shooting. Later in Bond Court,
Judge Raymond Myles ordered Gipson held without bail. Gipson, of the
1100 block of North Kedvale Avenue, stole no money in the robbery
attempt, police said.
West Side
Man Charged In Triple Homicide
From
CBS-2 (Chicago)
February
18, 2006
Police
finally have a suspect in a triple homicide that left four children
without a father, in a case that was cracked by a police dog.
CBS 2's
Rafael Romo spoke to the family of Luis Laboy, 42, one of three men
killed in a Jan. 30 shooting on the West Side. For Jose Vargas, the
oldest of Laboy's four children, the most difficult thing is trying to
explain to his siblings that their father is never coming back.
Laboy was
shot and killed as he was working in his garage near Division Street and
Keeler Avenue.
Two of
Laboy's friends, Emanuel Corona-Cruz, 18, and Jose Corona-Cruz, 21, were
also killed in the shooting. Police News Affairs Officer Patrice Harper
said a 46-year-old man was also shot in the incident but survived.
Antonyo
Gipson, 23, of the 1100 block of North Kedvale Avenue, has been charged
with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted
murder.
Police
said Gipson confronted the men with the intention of robbing them. The
victims [speak no] English, and when the robbery was announced, they did
not know what was going on. So with no provocation, the offender started
shooting the victim, [sic] police said.
Harrison
Area detectives said they were finally able to break the case after
their Canine Unit found evidence that tied Gipson to the case.
The nos
[sic] of a dog in the unit followed a scent to the bandana that was
later linked to Gipson's residence.
Police dog sniffs out alleged murderer.
DNA found on
bandana in alley
February 18, 2006
A Chicago police dog sniffs out evidence
linked to an alleged killer.
On January 30, three people
died and another was seriously injured in a shooting at a West Side
garage. Antonyo Gipson, 23, is charged with three counts of murder and
one count of attempted murder. Investigators used DNA evidence found in
a bandana near the crime scene to link Gipson to the murders.
The bandana
was discovered by 8-year-old Denny, a German Shepard police dog. Denny
picked up on the scent and led his handler to the key piece of evidence.
"All of a
sudden as we're going down the alley he made a hard left. I followed him
in the this dark gangway, I noticed something on the ground he's
sniffing it and it's this bandana," said Officer Rick King, Chicago
Police Dept.
"I'm glad
they caught him but then I wish I could have been the one to have caught
him because just like my mom said we want to tell him what he took from
us my dad was a big part of the family," said Jose Vargas, victim's
stepson.
Police
believe Luis Laboy and the other men were shot in an attempted robbery.
Chicago
police say this is the first time a police dog has found evidence used
for DNA testing that ended up solving a crime.
