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Ferris Howard, Williams Stamps

Ferris Howard (left) and Williams Stamps are charged in a shooting that killed a cab driver and injured a 68-year-old woman in west suburban Maywood in November. (Credit: Maywood Police)

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MAYWOOD, Ill. (CBS) — Two men are set to appear in bond court in Maywood Friday, charged with a Nov. 26 shooting that left a taxi driver dead and a second person wounded.

Maywood village spokesman Larry Shapiro identified the suspects as Ferris Howard, 25, of the 100 block of South 15th Avenue in Maywood, and Williams Stamps, 21, of the 100 block of South 19th Avenue, also of in Maywood.

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Victim Luis Cordoba, of Melrose Park, was waiting for a fare and was alone inside of the taxi in a residential neighborhood, at 19th Avenue and St. Charles Road, when the gunmen opened fire. Cordoba, 56, was shot in the head.

Another stray bullet traveled two blocks and wounded a 68-year-old woman, Willie Williams. in the back. Williams was shot as she waited for a Pace bus.

he bullet “was lodged against her spinal cord,” Shapiro said Ferris in November, but she was not paralyzed. The woman lived two blocks away from where the shooting occurred.

Surveillance video retrieved after the shooting show that neither was the intended target, and that the shooters continued to run after Cordoba and Williams had been shot. Police said at the time that no attempt was made to rob Cordoba, who had driven for Bellwood-based People’s Cab Co. for eight years.

The cab company offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. A representative of the cab company declined comment.

Shapiro said Howard and Stamps both face charges of murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery by firearm.

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  • Just Axin

    Even though we get pretty upset when we see these offenses occur day in and day out, what might encourage something to be done would be if the media listed criminal histories of the offenders. Once people see rap sheets attached to every story, something might actually be done to slow these animals down. Unless the person is already in jail, I don’t think that info is avail to the public?

    • Whiskey…Tango…Foxtrot

      WOW! These two guys are in big trouble, it’s illegal to carry a gun in the state of Illinois. OMG!! It’s as if criminals have no respect for Illinois’s strict gun laws and the only people without guns are law abiding citizens.

  • Jim

    Well, take a good look eveyone. These two are an example of society’s worst nightmare. Two black African gangsters without a drop of remorse between them. The likes of these two should be eliminated from civilized society!!!!

    • Leroy Goldberg

      @Jim

      You speak the truth. There is no place in society for those two and the millions just like them.

    • Hoth Industries

      POS Jim wrote:
      “Two black African gangsters…”

      Really? These two thugs are about as African as you are. You really, really, REALLY need higher education.

  • justa thought

    Every time I see the twin mugshots on these stories it usually (if not always) involves 2 black men-I can help thinking “Two Headed Hydra” when I see it.

    So can we start calling a single black thug a “Hydra” and when there is more than 1 “two headed…” etc.

    Here is info on what a Hydra is:

    The Hydra guards the entrance to the Underworld and from the murky swamps of the Lake of Lerna the monstrous serpent would rise and terrorize the city. The Hydra was finally killed by Hercules during his second labor.

    Seems like we have plenty of Hydra’s-now all we need is Hercules…….

  • judge

    Reinstate the death penalty.i believe an eye for an eye.people kill someone and all evidences goes against the bad guy(s). Deserve the death penalty.where i came from,there are two choices needle or electric chair.

  • Just Axin

    Jim-Great job with your aforementioned comments. MSko- In the beginning, you actually made a little sense, but when I see your other posts, you let the brotha in you come out. The biggest joke around here, as usual, is Hoth. I can’t believe you said you hit the report comment link. If that doesn’t show you are the biggest (ok, time to use that link..) P U S S Y, than I’m a monkey’s uncle. Perhaps when your blood pressure goes up, you suddenly lose the ability to respond on an intellectual level, and it looks like the Hulk (read: brotha) comes out in You. All those gov’t grants for your education, down the drain!

    • German Leprechaun

      Highly insightful. Thank you.

    • Hoth Industries

      *sigh* you’ll never get it. what a waste.

  • Leroy Goldberg

    Oh there are quite a few good NE@ROES…..the dead ones!

    • Leroy Goldberg

      @ Hoth Industries you are more than welcome to join them!

      • Hoth Industries

        If it means to be far from jags like you, then gladly.

    • THEE Yard Ape

      @hoth – first off let me invite you to go fuk yourself!!! Are you negro?? I hope so, because if you are white, I would like to see you hang first while the ni @@ ers watch!!! Liberals sacks of sh!t like you serve NO purpose, but to enable this type of sh!t to continue.

      • Hoth Industries

        If my race or ethnicity means so much to you, then come suck it and figure it out for yourself.

        There is where you are wrong, jag, er, I mean APE… no. I did mean jag. Anyway, racists like yourself serve no purpose but to further a message of hate. Pure and simple. HATE. It is one thing to be prejudice, entirely another to be racist. You are living in the wrong era, APE. You would have had a better fit in 1950s Mississippi rather than in today’s progressive, forward-thinking society. Instead, you choose to look back to an era to summon all the hate, bigotry, and vile talk you can procure. Good for you, Bravo! It is not I who daily writes hate into the comment sections of a news outlet. I bet you hit them all, don’t you? You cannot be limited to the Chicago market… Your type of hate and bigotry is just to expansive for even an audience as large as Chicago. Take that sh!t on the road, man. Spread your message IN PERSON and see how far you get.

      • THEE Yard Ape

        @hoth- hey @ ss hole, I’m a REALIST!!! Spread a message of hate on the road?? You mean like Farracoon?? I’m sure your fine with that right?? I’m done with you. Incase you haven’t noticed,I’m not alone in my thoughts!!!

      • Hoth Industries

        Henceforth, I will refer to THEE YARD APE as POS APE. Actually, any Hate Monger will be proceeded with the apt title of POS.

        I liken you to the digital, white version of Louis Farrakhan (only you are less intelligent).

        Seriously, people like you and Farrakhan are loathsome. Vile. Despicable. No matter the color of skin the Hate Monger has, it’s still abhorrent. There is nothing positive about you or Farrakhan’s message. Nothing.

  • marc(ashamed negro boy)

    It’s because of black men like these 2 that make me so ashamed that make me marc(ashamed negro boy).

  • Milton Abernathy

    Hoth Industries

    Whatever you are male, female, human or ne@ro I’m really enjoying your missives, rants, preaches to the choir whatever the he!! it’s meant to be.

    It truly adds to my enjoyment. I love reading about Black on Black crimes and violence. When I see NE@ROES acting like the vile savage monsters I know them to be I see you as the ignorant, liberal, a$$hole that is living in fantasyland.

    So you keep reading our comments and climb up on your soapbox and say whatever it is you feel you have to say get it out of your system and move on. Move on to the next story and the next and the next because there will always be a story about some NE@RO committing some crime as sure as the sun rises and the sun sets.

    I’ll read those stories and laugh then I’ll read your comments and laugh some more.

    • Hoth Industries

      So, Milton, “It truly adds to my enjoyment. I love reading about Black on Black crimes and violence,” you wrote. That sounds like a psycho-sexual deviancy you have going on there; getting aroused by looking at black criminals while reading about their dirty deeds… sick.

      And my all-time-favorite, “I’ll read those stories and laugh then I’ll read your comments and laugh some more.”
      I’m sure you will, MILTON, I’m sure you will.

      • Milton Abernathy

        HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • Just Axin

    Hoth- This is classic! You talk about not having your daughter reading these “racist remarks” as your cowardly excuse to tell the teacher and hit the report tab, but you have no problem in then saying, “You jags b!tchh…fucc….suck on it” Dude: You Are a Joke!!!

    • marc(ashamed negro boy)

      i’m still ashamed.

    • Hoth Industries

      My replies do not promote or endorse hate toward any ethnic group based on the actions of a few. Furthermore, I was using a daughter analogy to illustrate that you guys have no filter when it comes to posting racial slurs, bigoted statements, and all around generalizing everything into a black thing. Energy is better suited elsewhere. People like you perpetuate negativity and hate. Just because you are Caucasian (means “white people’ so you don’t have to Google it) does not give you the right to pass judgement on an entire ethnic group. Reason and logic are beyond your type, the racist.

      • Milton Abernathy

        HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

      • THEE Yard Ape

        @hoth – geebuz, you’re still at it ? I love the way Just Axin calls you out, and in typical liberal/ ni @@ er fashion you play spin doctor. Spare us your preaching. Maybe you should use your energy and go march with Pfleger?? Btw- allow me to add – I can pretty much guarantee that you’re the type of kid that used to get hit alot in school. You would run your mouth until someone smacked the sh!t out of you, and then you would run and cry to the teacher. Fux like you seem to enjoy getting smacked around, just like what’s happening here when you’re put in check!!!!! Enough exclamation points for you c#nt???

  • Hoth Industries

    *yawn* you were saying something?

  • marc(proud black man)

    Hoth, you can’t get tthru to guys like this. This is what we called self entitlement!!! White people have always thought they owned the world and that god made it for them solely! You see an educated white person would know that you don’t condemn an entire race based off actions of others. But they’re idiots so you can’t reason with them. You see if that was the case All races would want the white race exterminated for all the evil they have committed. Especially blacks would want to kill all of em.. But we don’t. We understand some are good and then some like lot of the ones that post here that post out of anger because their mom or sisters were on their periods and couldn’t give them any are complete idiots.

    • Jim

      White people don’t own the world?

    • Hoth Industries

      Thank you. You have an excellent voice of reason. Too bad it’s completely lost on the racists’ ignorance. It’s refreshing to see someone like you who keeps their head up through all the vile, disgusting post. You just made my day.

      I will continue, albeit a bit futile, to call out the POS White Trash who post hate comments in the comment sections. I doubt they have encountered anyone as articulate as I to counter their slurs and idiotic posts. They can call me @ssh0le, p4ssy, whatever they like; it’s not a deterrence for me. They are all miserable people hiding behind a computer screen, thinking they are witty but in actuality they are sad, lonely, angry, hate-fulled individuals who cannot rise above their sense of hate and extreme tunnel vision of a world where they think ‘white is right’ and all other opinions or point of views are completely wrong. Good for them. These guys need to be pointed out to others as examples of low-life, self-serving, POS racists that they are. Even though they seem to out-number us in the comment sections here on WBBM, the fact is they are in a very miniscule minority in the larger picture of life.

    • marc(ashamed negro boy)

      Not proud….ashamed!

  • Jim

    I agree Memph, It is un fortunate that a vast majority of young negro males in Chicago are vicious killers. It’s also unfortunate that they far, far, far, outweigh the violent crimes that whitey commits. I do believe that the comment calling people a racist piece of sh!t is a little harsh. Try not to mistake disgust and frustration for racism, there is a difference!!

  • B

    you guys are taking this to a black white thing and its definantly not that theres bad in this world PERIOD no matter the race and lets be honest using the term noose when referring to a situation involving 2 young black men is inapppropiate and is going to be taking a certain way………………i highly doubt the crimes committed by caucasian ppl outweigh those of other races but they just dont get as much media attention

  • Memph Skony

    @ Jim come on negro this is not the 50′s and maybe you misread my comment I said NOT all white people are a racist piece of sh!t and that was a sarcastic shot at thee grape ape but maybe it should be for you to. just wondering is your first name Jim last name crow?

  • Jim

    @Memph, You should show respect for Mr. Yard Ape! He is highly regarded here on this blog! @B, I think the term noose in regards to these two monkeys is fully appropriate!!!

  • THEE Yard Ape

    @B – give me a break!!! Look at the stats and STOP blaming the media!!! I would never have to say another word about your species, your actions do all the talking!!!

    @Jim – thank you sir. Your analysis is spot on.

    @memph simian – see my comment above directed at your homie B

  • Memph Skony

    @panda bear thought you forgot about me hows everything been going I see you brought your girlfriend jane oops I mean jim to the cbs show

  • Hoth Industries

    Thee Yard Ape wrote:
    “@B – give me a break!!! Look at the stats and STOP blaming the media!!! I would never have to say another word about your species, your actions do all the talking!!!”

    I think you missed high school biology because I remember learning about THE HUMAN SPECIES. You, on the other hand, belong to the sub-genis Hate Monger (White Trash POS variety) typically found in the slime and rust of old mobile home parks. Some, not all, are known to have human-like fingers thus allowing them to type and hide behind the safety of a computer.

    Although eradicating Hate Mongers (White Trash POS variety) seems quite difficult, a good deterrence (which slow them down only for a while) is clicking on the REPORT COMMENT link. Please keep in mind that Hate Mongers (White Trash POS variety) congregate in pools of slime and filth, occasionally poking out their heads spewing forth diatribe, nonsensical rhetoric, and plain old bullsh!t. The best and logical defense against these vermin is to walk on by, ignoring the ignorance and stupidity which seems to excite and arouse said vermin.

  • Jim

    @Hoth, Damn, you are an abusive mother f***ker. And you have the gall to throw insults! The species that Mr. Yard Ape is referring to is the negroid species. You can see them every day in the violent crime stories. I don’t get your reference to trailer parks, where I live, they are 98% illegal Mexicans. In reference to your suggestion to use the report comment button, only a cowardly piece of sh!t would use that rather than making a rebuttal as you have done here. By the way, I for one don’t live in slime and filth. I think you are thinking about the Englewood community!!!!!

  • Hoth Industries

    @ Jim: Stop hurting your brain tying to figure out what I am thinking; it will only further confuse you.

    Besides, with a reply such as your reply, you are helping prove my point. So, g’head… put your Hate Mongering head back inside THEE YARD APE’s arse (or your arse (it doesn’t quite matter to me) where you both like it.

    As a side note: It’s interesting how THEE YARD APE and the ilk only comment on crime, particularly crimes committed by black individuals. It’s an easy forum to write inflammatory, bigoted, and highly racist remarks, especially in crime-ridden Chicago; they do not concentrate on the VICTIMS. they concentrate on blacks committing crimes, boo-hooing over gun restrictions, and generally trying to force their racist views onto others. It’s not a point of being cowardly to report abusive comments… THEE YARD APE and his ilk think it is ok to leave such remarks without regard to others. Fucc yes I will report any remark that crosses the line into racism… I would not want my daughter reading the 100% pure racist remarks posted on WBBM’s comment sections.

    The racists only think of themselves and how better to put forth their message of intolerance, hatred, and bigotry. Jim, you also may think OK to post such racism. I think, along with the majority of the comment readers here, are sick and tired of reading the same bullsh!t from the same individuals almost on a daily basis. It makes me want to literally puke. It’s sick. It is unwarranted, it’s a pure Nazi mentality. You jags b!ich and whine and complain about the blacks. Guess what? MOVE THE FUCC OUT OF THE CITY AND BUY YOURSELF A HOUSE IN HICKVILLE. Oh, wait… you then wouldn’t have anything to b!tch about. GET OVER IT.

  • Leroy Goldberg

    Hey Y A. What about repeated blows to the head with a sledgehammer?

  • Reb Biker

    A small child saying “Daddy” will make thugs run in the opposite direction, too.

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