(Sun Times Wire) Two people were killed and at least seven others were wounded in shootings Monday across Chicago. Officers…
(Sun Times Wire) Three women were stabbed Monday night on the Near West Side. The women were stabbed about 8:14…
(WLS) Three men were shot to death and at least 36 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago between…
(Chicago Tribune) A man was killed and at least 14 others were wounded in city shootings from Saturday afternoon to…
(Sun Times Wire) A man was shot to death and at least 15 other people were wounded Friday evening in…
(Sun Times Wire) Two people were killed and at least seven others were wounded in shootings Monday across Chicago. Officers responded at 9:47 p.m. to a call of shots fired in the 6400 block of South Langley in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side, where they found a male in an alley with multiple…
(Sun Times Wire) Three women were stabbed Monday night on the Near West Side. The women were stabbed about 8:14 p.m. in the 1300 block of West Washburne, Chicago Police said. A 27-year-old woman was stabbed in the abdomen and arm and transported to Stroger Hospital, police said. Her condition is unknown at this time.…
(WLS) Three men were shot to death and at least 36 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago between Friday evening and Monday morning, marking a violent first weekend of the fall season.
After the latest spate of gun violence, 473 people have been shot dead in the city since the start of the year, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times. Friday marked the end of a violent summer season that left 184 people killed in city gun violence from June 21 to Sept. 21. The city has recorded at least 508 homicides so far in 2017.
A man was killed in a drive-by shooting about 9:30 a.m. Sunday in the West Side Austin neighborhood. Dashawn Townes, 34, was shot by someone in a silver vehicle in the 900-block of North Massasoit, according to Chicago police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. Townes, who lived nearby, was struck in the neck and chest and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 10:07 a.m.
Officers responded to a call of a person shot shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday and found 33-year-old Andrew Dehart lying face down in the street in the 1500-block of South Trumbull in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side, authorities said. Dehart had been shot in the face and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:30 a.m. He lived on the same block as the shooting.
About 8:15 p.m. Friday, a 28-year-old man was fatally shot in the Hegewisch neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said. He was traveling inside a vehicle in the 13700-block of South Torrence when another vehicle drove past and someone inside opened fire. The man was struck multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene. His name has not yet been released.
The weekend’s latest nonfatal shooting happened at 2:43 a.m. Monday in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side. A 36-year-old man was in an argument in the 10100-block of South Wallace when another male pulled out a handgun and shot him in the right leg, police said. He was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized. A suspect was in custody early Monday as Area South detectives investigated.
At least 35 other people were wounded in Chicago shootings between 7:30 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday.
Last weekend, 11 people were killed and 29 others wounded in citywide attacks between Friday evening and Monday morning.
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(Chicago Tribune) A man was killed and at least 14 others were wounded in city shootings from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning, including a triple shooting in the Lawndale neighborhood, authorities said. In the homicide, a 33-year-old man was shot in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, police said. Officers found him face down…
(Sun Times Wire) A Chicago Police officer fired at a suspect after a person was critically wounded early Saturday in a domestic-related shooting in the East Chatham neighborhood on the South Side. Officers responded to a call of “shots fired” at 4:33 a.m. and saw the 27-year-old suspect leaving an apartment with a weapon in…
(Chicago Tribune) Two men were killed and at least seven others were wounded Thursday into early Friday in shootings across Chicago. The fatal attack happened about 12:30 p.m. in the 1800 block of North Monitor Avenue in the West Side’s Austin neighborhood. Police later changed the address to the 5800 block of West Cortland Avenue.…
(Sun Times Wire) Federal prosecutors announced a sweeping racketeering indictment against a Chicago street gang late Thursday afternoon, tying nine Four Corner Hustlers to a decades-long conspiracy that led to the murders of six people. Labar “Bro Man” Spann is accused of participating in all six slayings, including the June 2003 murder of Latin Kings…
(Sun Times Wire) A man was killed and five other people were wounded in shootings Monday across Chicago’s South and West sides. The fatal shooting happened at 11:34 p.m. in the Bridgeport neighborhood on the South Side. The 28-year-old man was standing on the sidewalk in the 2900 block of South Arch Street when shots…
(ABC) A former Chicago police sergeant wanted on federal drug and conspiracy charges was arrested in Detroit after nearly 15 years on the run, the FBI announced Tuesday. Eddie Hicks was the alleged ringleader of a crew of five men that posed as federal drug agents to shake down drug dealers for cash and narcotics.…
(WLS) Chicago police are taking the next step to cut street violence on the heels of a deadly weekend that saw the city record its 500th homicide of 2017. Mayor Rahm Emanuel is announcing more cops on the streets after 10 people were killed in shootings this weekend. The most recent fatal shooting occurred at…
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(Chicago Tribune) Four people, including a woman police believe was pregnant, were killed on Friday night in a rifle attack in the Brighton Park neighborhood.
The shooting happened about 8:40 p.m. in the 4700 block of South Fairfield Avenue, police said. Three males, ages currently unknown, and a woman were inside a vehicle when someone inside a white SUV opened fire on them with a rifle, police said.
Responding police officers found their bodies inside the vehicle and they were pronounced dead on the scene. Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the woman was believed to be pregnant, but police won’t know for sure until the autopsy.
The Brighton Park neighborhood and the nearby Back of the Yards neighborhood have been the scene of dozens of rifle shootings that have occurred since early 2016.
In February, the Chicago Tribune reported that gangs in the two neighborhoods were increasingly using rifles styled after AR-15s and AK-47s. At the time, there had been more than 30 shootings believed to have been tied to semi-automatic rifles in the two neighborhoods over the last year.
At least 46 people were shot in those attacks, 13 fatally.
The shooting happened near the office of Ald. Raymond Lopez, 15th, who sparked a firestorm this past spring when he said “no innocent lives were lost” after two people were killed and eight others wounded when two masked gunmen with rifles opened fire on a group congregating at a makeshift memorial for a man who had been slain in an earlier shooting.
Community members gathered at both ends of the crime scene on Friday to gawk, check on their loved ones and find out what happened.
Maria Mier, who lives nearby, said she saw a rush of ambulances and heard what sounded like “a machine gun.”
An EMS Plan I was called on Friday, sending at least six ambulances to the scene, but the plan was called off a short time later when police took over the incident as a crime scene, said Chicago Fire Department Cmd. Frank Velez. None of the multiple victims were taken to hospitals, Velez said.
Two men on the scene, who asked not to be identified, said they heard what sounded like a rifle firing and a car chase. Continue Reading
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IPRA released dashcam video Thursday of a Chicago police officer firing shots at a man who was allegedly holding a gun in the back seat of a vehicle on July 16 in the Belmont Central neighborhood.
The 18-year-old man was shot by at least one Chicago Police officer early on the Northwest Side.
At 3:07 a.m., Grand Central District officers pulled over a vehicle in the alley in the 2800 block of North Mulligan after the driver committed an alleged traffic violation, according to a police statement.
Officers approached the vehicle and saw someone armed with a gun in the back seat, police said. An officer and a sergeant fired their weapons, striking him in the arm and leg.
He was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where his condition had stabilized, police said. No officers were injured.
A weapon was recovered at the scene, police said.
The officers involved in the incident will be placed on routine administrative duties for 30 days, per Chicago Police Department policy. The Independent Police Review Authority will investigate the shooting.
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IPRA Video Independent Police Review Authority. On July 16th 2017 at around 3 am Chicago cops from the grand central district pulled over a car on a routine traffic stop in an alley at 2800 N Mulligan the Belmont Central neighborhood. When cops approached the car they could see there were four heads in the car, so they called for backup.
As Officers they argued with the driver for his license, the cops saw that one of the back seat passengers, a 18 year old man had a gun in his hand the man can be heard in the video threatening the cops, as they argued with him to put the gun down, the man refused and 2 cops opened fire striking the man in his arm and leg.
The man was taken away by ambulance to Loyola hospital where his condition was stabilized. A gun was recovered on the scene. Both officers that fired shots were placed on thirty-day administrative leave.
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(Sun Times Wire) A man was killed and at least four other people were wounded in shootings Thursday across the city’s South and West sides. Officers responding to a call of shots fired in the South Side Englewood neighborhood found 24-year-old Dantrell Morgan about 2:10 a.m. in a grassy area in the 7100 block of…
(Sun Times Wire) A man was killed and at least six other people were wounded in shootings Wednesday across Chicago. At 12:03 a.m., 40-year-old Jawon Jermaine Garrett was with a group of males in the 2300 block of West Madison on the Near West Side when two more males walked up and fired shots, according…
(WGN) A new school year is underway and a new course for eighth graders and sophomores in Chicago Public School involves disgraced former police commander Jon Burge. Jon Burge is a convicted felon who was a police detective and later commander who was fired by the department for using mental and physical torture and instructing…
(Sun Times Wire) Nine people were shot, three of them fatally, on Tuesday across Chicago. The most recent fatal shooting happened at 3:38 p.m. in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side. A 30-year-old man was standing outside in the 300 block of South Kilbourn when another male walked up, pulled out a…
(Sun Times Wire) Five people were wounded in shootings Monday across Chicago. Most recently, a man was shot in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side. The 25-year-old was walking in an alley about 10:25 p.m. in the 5300 block of South Indiana when he heard shots and felt pain, according to Chicago Police.…
(Chicago Tribune) About four blocks west of an officer-involved shooting late Thursday, a man was shot dead in a car parked on a Lawndale street early Friday morning. In the homicide, a 30-year-old man was shot in the head and found unresponsive in a car in the 1100 block of South Troy Street just before…
(ABC 7) Three people were found dead Thursday afternoon inside a southwest suburban Joliet home. Officers were sent to the single-family home about 2:50 p.m. in the 2000- block of Great Falls Drive for a death investigation, according to Police Chief Brian Benton. Police believe a party at the home lasted into the early morning…
(WGN) A Chicago police officer shot a 16-year-old boy while responding to a call of shots fired on the city’s West Side on Thursday night. It happened in in the 1100 block of South Sacramento in the city’s Douglas Park neighborhood just before 10 p.m. Thursday. Police say they received calls about shots fired in…
(WGN) Two men were reportedly injured in a shooting incident on the northbound express lanes of I-94 near 71st St. Thursday afternoon. A 27-year-old male and a 21-year-old male were shot and drove themselves to St. Bernard Hospital. They were going to be transferred to Stroger Hospital, but there is no word on their condition…
(ABC 7) Klint Kelley left Chicago for rural Arkansas as teenager, hoping to get away from gangs and violence he’d known as city life. But federal prosecutors say as an adult, Kelley stayed connected to his hometown by trafficking guns. Kelley, 27, was arrested in Chicago Ridge on Sunday after driving 10 hours from his…
(dnainfo)The City Council agreed Wednesday to settle four police misconduct lawsuits for a total of $10.2 million, putting an end to years of legal wrangling surrounding the cases. Jose Lopez A man who was severely injured after he was shocked with a stun gun by a Chicago police officer, causing him to fall and hit…
(Sun Times Wire) A 14 year old boy was killed and six other people were wounded in shootings Tuesday across Chicago. The boy was shot shortly after 5 p.m. in the South Chicago neighborhood. He was standing on the sidewalk in the 8000 block of South Manistee when a person approached him, pulled out a…
Maggio News Video, Chicago Police credited a pre-holiday round-up of troublemakers and 1,300 extra officers on the streets each day with a year-to-year decline in shootings over Labor Day weekend.
Between 11 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Tuesday, seven people were killed and 35 others were wounded in shootings across the city, according to Chicago Sun-Times records.
First Deputy Supt. Kevin Navarro, leading the department while Supt. Eddie Johnson recovers from kidney transplant surgery, said Monday night that violence was down from last year. By 8 p.m. Monday, CPD officers had seized more than 100 guns.
“That’s more than one gun an hour so far,” Navarro said during a brief press conference outside the 7th District headquarters in Englewood.
“We still have the rest of the night to go so we know that’s a challenge, we aren’t declaring victory. One shooting, one murder, that’s too much for us.”
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement that, according to CPD records, murders had decreased 46 percent and shootings had decreased 30 percent between 6 p.m. Friday and 11:59 p.m. Monday compared to the same period of the Labor Day weekend last year. Guglielmi said these were the lowest shootings and murder statistics during the holiday weekend since 2014.
On Thursday and Friday, CPD officers arrested some 140 people who are “driving violence” in the city, Navarro said, citing a tactic the department has used ahead of summer holiday weekends for several years.
Between Friday night and Monday morning of the city’s Labor Day weekend last year, the city tallied 13 people dead and 52 others wounded in shootings citywide. Navarro said the department was able to target the deployment of the extra officers more effectively using Strategic Decision Support Centers in several districts, a program the department has expanded since last year.
The seven deaths this weekend, including the killing of a 15-year-old boy Monday evening, were the latest casualties of Chicago’s gun violence that has taken the lives of at least 438 people since the start of 2017, according to data maintained by the Sun-Times.
The holiday weekend’s latest killing happened at 10:55 p.m. Monday in the LeClaire Courts neighborhood on the Southwest Side. A 38-year-old man was on the sidewalk in the 4400 block of South Lawler when two people walked up to him and opened fire, according to police. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
The 15-year-old boy was shot to death about three hours earlier during an argument in the Southwest Side Lawndale neighborhood. He was on the sidewalk about 7:50 p.m. in front of a home in the 1500 block of South Drake when he started arguing with a group of people, police said. During the argument, someone pulled out a gun and shot him in the back.
He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died.
A man and woman died in an apparent murder-suicide about 6:35 p.m. Monday in the 4900 block of West Washington in the West Side Austin neighborhood, police said. The 26-year-old woman had been shot multiple times, and the 34-year-old man had an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. They were both taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where they were pronounced dead. Police said the shooting was believed to be a “domestic incident.”
The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not provided information on any of those fatalities.
About 10:40 p.m. Sunday, 26-year-old Felipe Batista Jr. was killed and another man was wounded in a Belmont Central neighborhood shooting on the Northwest Side, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Batista and the 29-year-old man were standing on the sidewalk in the 5900 block of West Belden when another male walked up and opened fire. Batista, who lived a block away, was shot in the torso and pronounced dead at the scene. The other man was shot in the abdomen and taken in critical condition to Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
About two hours earlier, 20-year-old Jeremy Tang was found shot in the Washington Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side, authorities said. Tang, who lived in the Beverly neighborhood, was found suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest about 8:40 p.m. in the driver’s side of a vehicle in the 800 block of West 102nd Street. He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died.
At 5:02 a.m. Saturday, another man was found shot to death in the West Side Austin neighborhood, authorities said. He was found lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head in the 1000 block of North Waller. The man, whose age was unknown, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The medical examiner’s office has not released his name, pending notification of his family.
About four hours earlier, a man was shot to death and three other people were wounded in a Gresham neighborhood attack on the South Side. James McChristian, 26, was with another man and two women, sitting on the front porch of a house about 1:20 a.m. Saturday in the 8300 block of South Hermitage when three people got out of a white car parked behind the house, walked up to them and opened fire, police and the medical examiner’s office said.
McChristian, who lived nearby, was shot in the chest and abdomen and was pronounced dead at Christ Medical Center less than an hour later, authorities said. The other man, 23, was shot in the shoulder and was listed in good condition at Christ Medical Center. A 25-year-old woman was also taken to Christ and stabilized with gunshot wounds to the arm and abdomen. Another woman, 23, was shot in the leg and was listed in good condition at Christ.
At least 31 other people have been wounded in shootings across the city between 11 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday.
Seven people were killed and at least 25 others were wounded in shootings last weekend.
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(Sun Times Wire) On a sunny afternoon two weeks ago, Tororicius Berry walked up to Kejuan Thomas on a South Side basketball court and shot the 16-year-old dead, then stood over Thomas and continued firing, prosecutors said Friday. Multiple witnesses, some as young as 10, told police they saw Berry walk out from behind the…
(Sun Times Wire) On a sunny afternoon two weeks ago, Tororicius Berry walked up to Kejuan Thomas on a South Side basketball court and shot the 16-year-old dead, then stood over Thomas and continued firing, prosecutors said Friday. Multiple witnesses, some as young as 10, told police they saw Berry walk out from behind the…
(Sun Times Wire) Two men were killed and at least eight other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago between Friday evening and Saturday morning, marking a deadly start to the city’s Labor Day Weekend. The two deaths were the latest casualties of Chicago’s increasing gun violence that has taken the lives of at least…
(Sun Times Wire) Thirteen people were wounded in shootings Wednesday across Chicago. The most recent attack left three men wounded about 11:30 p.m. in the 1400 block of South Avers in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side, according to Chicago Police. A 33-year-old man was shot in the right foot; a 38-year-old man was…
(WGN) An off-duty Chicago police officer shot and killed a teen during a robbery attempt in Hazel Crest, Ill. Police said the officer was meeting the two suspects Tuesday night on Birchwood Drive before 10 p.m. He thought he was buying a computer from them after the purchase was made online. The police chief said…
(Fox32) A Chicago man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with a shooting nearly two weeks ago at a CTA station in the Loop. Kornell Strenger, 24, faces felony charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery/discharge of a firearm, Chicago Police said. He was expected to appear in court for a bond hearing…
(dnainfo) A Chicago Public Schools teacher has been charged with dealing ammunition and gun accessories — and is accused of trying to buy handguns for a felon who was secretly working for the feds, authorities announced Wednesday. The teacher was identified as Brent Turpin, 53, an Englewood elementary school special education teacher with Chicago Public…
(Sun Times Wire) At least eight people were wounded in shootings Tuesday across Chicago. The day’s latest attack happened about 10:10 p.m. in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side. A group was standing on the sidewalk in the 7200 block of South May when they were approached by two males, according to Chicago Police.…
(Fox32) A 16 year old boy was among seven people killed in shootings that left another 25 people wounded across Chicago between Friday evening and Monday morning. The boy was shot to death about 3:45 a.m. Saturday in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side. Theotis Luckett, 16, was shot in the back…
