Update: Joliet Man Shot to Death Sunday Was Sitting in Car With Woman

The Joliet man slain Sunday in a gun attack on the Hill was sitting in a car with a woman when he was ambushed.

SjonTre Thompson, 22, was shot in the chest and both legs. A 28-year-old woman sitting in the driver’s seat was hit in the leg.

Thompson was taken to Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox. The woman he was with was transported to Provena St. Joseph Medical Center. She is expected to survive.

The gunmen walked up on Thompson and the woman as they sat in the vehicle parked on Englewood Avenue about 2 a.m. The shooters raked the car with bullet and then ran off.

Police have no information about or description of the killers.

Less than 48 hours earlier, another Joliet man was gunned down on Wallace Street near Center Street.

Shador Jenkins, 28 —armed with a steak knife — rushed the gunman who would kill him, police said. The alleged shooter, Dwayne Johnson, 22, was jailed on a charge of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.

Police Chief Brian Benton said the shooting of Jenkins appeared justified. Prosecutors were to further review the case Monday.

Just four days ago, in almost the exact same spot Thompson was gunned down, another Joliet man was shot in the leg.

Officers sent to the area early Wednesday morning found no sign of a crime but soon learned a 21-year-old man was at Silver Cross with a bullet wound to his calf.

Officers met with the man at the hospital and he told them he was walking along when he heard gunshots and was hit in the calf. The wounded man gave police no description of his attacker.

Thompson was the brother of 21-year-old Sjolante Crowder, according to the obituary for their mother, Sabrina Hill-Morgan. In September 2013, Crowder was sentenced to life in prison for killing two teens in a gun attack the year prior.

Crowder gunned down Delasse Lanier, 18, and Adrian Knox, 17, and wounded 20-year-old Jonathan Caples. The three men were standing in a crowd on Second Avenue when Crowder slunk up behind them and opened fire at close range.

Thompson’s sister, according to the obituary, was Chinesicia Hill-King. Hill-King’s bullet-ridden corpse was found in a Zurich Road ditch in March. She had been missing for two months before her body was discovered.

Hill-King’s boyfriend, Michael C. Brock, 24, turned up dead in an Ottawa Street alley about the same time Hill-King vanished. The police initially investigated his death as a hit-and-run but later said he was shot once before he was struck by a car.

A woman who let Hill-King and Brock live in her Joliet home for a time before their relationship soured told how she figured the couple would come to a bad end.

“I knew something bad was going to happen because they were doing so much dirty stuff to people,” said Joan Watkins, 59.

“I hate that she got killed,” said Watkins, “but I knew something bad was going to happen.”