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Suspect barricaded in Austin apartment dies by suicide After 19-hour standoff, police find man with self-inflicted gunshot wound By FRANCIA GARCIA HERNANDEZ Staff Reporter
After a 19-hour standoff with law enforcement, a man barricaded in an Austin apartment on Wednesday was found dead with “a self-inflicted gunshot wound” early Thursday, police said in a statement. The white male, 35, was identified as Jean Carlos Mateo. He died of suicide by a gunshot wound to the head according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. Late Wednesday afternoon, the FBI and Chicago police were negotiating with the man barricaded in an apartment on the 5400 block of Walton Street. The incident started Aug. 9 around 7 a.m. after members of the Violent Crimes Task Force arrived at the address to arrest an alleged federal bank robbery suspect, the FBI said in a statement. See BARRICADE on page 4
North Lawndale fellow applies talents to community platform PROVIDED PR
Clio Lyons, Courtney Brown and Emma Jasinski (left to right) collaborate in the Chicago Design Trust’s MAPPED platform.
Courtney Brown collaborates with local orgs to share community stories and places in open source map
By FRANCIA GARCIA HERNANDEZ Staff Reporter
On a summer day last week, North Lawndale native Courtney Brown, 23, reviewed submissions to the public digital platform Mapped, an initiative of local design studio Design Trust Chicago where they are an intern. Mapped is an online free tool that maps projects,
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places, organizations and people in Chicago so any other community member can learn from them. “I expressed my interest in storytelling, memory and preservation and from there they connected me with Design Trust Chicago,” said Brown, who uses the pronoun “they.” They write, See MAPPED on page 12
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