Chicago SubX.News® Street Report Oct 3, 2025
Under 89-degree heat and gridlocked expressways, the city cracked open into scenes of violence across every corner. From a Little Caesars parking lot in Little Village, to a road-rage killing on the South Side, to ICE gas on the West Side, a migrant double homicide in Auburn Gresham, and crossfire in the South Loop, the message was unmistakable: no neighborhood is safe.
Murder–Suicide Before Dawn
Dewanda Dagen, 38, shot her boyfriend Noon Thurmond, 44, before turning the gun on herself inside a residence on the 6600 block of South Normal around 2:30 a.m. Both were found with gunshot wounds to the head and pronounced dead at the scene. A weapon was recovered.
Police logged it as a double homicide, but neighbors and social media confirmed it was a murder–suicide. Unconfirmed online reports suggested Thurmond had been unfaithful and had allegedly passed HIV to Dagen.
Pizza-Lot Machine Gun Killing
Gunfire tore through the Little Caesars lot at 2600 West Cermak around 3:18 p.m., as families were heading home from school. An assailant jumped from a car and opened fire with a rifle and handgun, striking the victim in the body and face. He died at Mt. Sinai.
Two children, ages 4 and 6, sat inside his vehicle and were rushed to Stroger for checks. Investigators collected 12 rifle casings and six 9mm casings from the lot. It was a gangland ambush carried out in the open at a family pizza chain in the middle of the afternoon.
Road-Rage Murder with a Bat
Less than half an hour later, around 3:44 p.m., a traffic clash near 54th and Wells escalated into murder. A man stepped out of a dark SUV with a bat and beat a 26-year-old until he collapsed.
The victim was transported to UChicago Medicine and pronounced dead. Police shut down Dan Ryan exits between 51st and Garfield. A minor road dispute turned into a broad daylight killing.
Tear Gas and ICE Confrontations
Logan Square turned into a federal war zone by late morning. At Rico Fresh Market, 3552 West Armitage, neighbors filmed an ICE SUV surrounded by shouting residents and a scooter blocking its path. Instead of backing off, a masked federal agent rolled down a window and tossed canisters of tear gas into the crowd.
The air filled with coughing and panic — right across from a grocery store and only half a block from Funston Elementary, where CPS rushed kids back indoors.
Helicopters circled, parents screamed, and witnesses told NBC Chicago, “For no reason, tear gassed the whole crowd.” Homeland Security gave no answer by nightfall.
Hours later in Humboldt Park, Alderperson Jessie Fuentes was briefly handcuffed outside a hospital while demanding to see a warrant.
At Broadview’s ICE processing center, choppers hovered overhead as alderpersons denounced raids stretching from Bronzeville to South Shore. Homeland Security later bragged “Operation Midway Blitz” had netted 800 arrests, including fugitives wanted for violent crimes.
Migrant Double Homicide
Police hit 904 W. 85th Street in Auburn Gresham after a 7:45 p.m. call of a man in distress. Inside a third-floor apartment they found one Hispanic male shot in the head, dead on scene. A second Hispanic male with a gunshot wound to the torso was discovered in the alley and rushed to Christ Hospital, where he was later pronounced.
Scanner traffic logged the scene in real time: “You can hold that second ambulance, it’s going to be a crime scene.”
Officers recovered roughly 17 shell casings from the second-floor unit, along with blood leading into the alley.
Both men had no IDs and were carried as John Does.
Neighbors said the building is a migrant address and that this was the third shooting in the same stretch of 85th Street since mid-September.
The first came on September 13 at 916 W. 85th, when 28-year-old Myles Hampton was mortally wounded in a drive-by that also injured a 21-year-old.
This October 3 double homicide cut directly against City Hall’s line that no violent migrant gangs exist in Chicago — a claim repeated in the media. Auburn Gresham residents said their block proves otherwise, describing 85th Street as a migrant trap zone.
24th & Federal Party Spot Ambush
Gunfire erupted in the South Loop near 24th and Federal just before 10:45 p.m., striking two men as crowds gathered on the street to enjoy a Friday night. A 23-year-old man was hit in the abdomen and arm, and a 20-year-old was struck in both legs. Both were hospitalized. Shell casings littered 24th Street.
Witnesses reported offenders fleeing into bushes near the tracks. A red Hyundai was seen racing north while another car went south. Police deployed K-9s, drones, and helicopters as crowds pressed in on medics trying to apply chest seals and tourniquets.
What should have been a quiet, secluded party zone became another reminder that even in hidden corners, Chicagoans are hunted down.
Fires, Swamps, and Stray Gunfire
As midnight passed, the emergencies stacked up. A car burned inside a Michigan Avenue high-rise garage, forcing evacuations. On the Far South Side at 12200 Avenue O, a man who jumped a fence sank into swamp mud and had to be pulled out by CFD. An attempted auto theft was stopped near an Impala. And on West Van Buren, a 19-year-old was shot in the leg after a verbal fight turned violent.
The Bigger Picture
While neighborhoods from Little Village to Auburn Gresham reeled under bloodshed, Washington remained stuck in a partial shutdown and the Regional Transit Authority admitted its “brighter” forecast still left the CTA, Metra, and Pace facing service cuts and layoffs by 2027.
The markets closed mixed, job numbers sagged, and beef prices crept higher.
On October 3, Chicago lived through machine-gun fire in a Little Caesars lot, a road-rage killing with a bat, federal tear gas on the West Side, a migrant double homicide in Auburn Gresham, and an ambush in the South Loop.
Fires, thefts, and stray gunshots filled in the margins.
This is urban terrorism — violence everywhere, safety nowhere.
Unless you are one of the chosen politicians guarded by a 150-person taxpayer-funded security detail, there is no safe place left in the city to go … HiHo
SubX.News® on-the-spot reporting
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