Crime & Safety
Joliet Man Gunned Down on 4th Avenue Early Saturday
The 25-year-old man was found mortally wounded and alone on Fourth Avenue, police said.
A Joliet man was gunned down on Fourth Avenue early Saturday.
Jonathan Q. Adams, 25, was alive and moving but not speaking when the police found him mortally wounded about 2:45 a.m. in the middle of Fourth Avenue near Richards Street.
Adams was taken to Presence St. Joseph Medical Center and underwent surgery but died shortly before 9:30 a.m.
No one else was around when officers responding to the shooting found Adams dying in the street. Anyone with information on the slaying was asked by police to call Crime Stoppers at 800-323-6734 or detectives at 815-724-3020.
Adams was the most recent victim in a string of gun attacks on the city's south end. Just hours before he was gunned down, a Joliet man was charged with shooting at and wounding a woman six blocks from where Adams was slain. Julius Byes, 21, of 200 Duncan St. was jailed on charges of aggravated discharge of a firearm and reckless discharge of a firearm in connection with the July 8 shooting on South Joliet Street.
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