(Sun Times Wire) Five people were shot Monday in Chicago, including a teen boy who was wounded by gunfire in…
(Sun Times Wire) Police are warning residents about a series of South Side carjackings this month in Bronzeville, Kenwood, Washington…
(Sun Times Wire) Two young brothers wounded in a shooting last week at an East Garfield Park barbershop have been…
(Sun Times Wire) Sixteen people were shot across Chicago this weekend, three of them fatally, including a 17-year-old girl killed…
(ABC) Two young brothers are among five people recovering after being shot at a barbershop in Chicago’s West Garfield Park…
(Sun Times Wire) Five people were shot Monday in Chicago, including a teen boy who was wounded by gunfire in Garfield Park on the West Side. The 17-year-old was walking about 9 p.m. in the 4200 block of West West End Avenue when he heard multiple gunshots, Chicago police said. He ran away and realized…
(Sun Times Wire) Police are warning residents about a series of South Side carjackings this month in Bronzeville, Kenwood, Washington Park and Hyde Park. In each case, two or three male suspects approached a lone female victim who was either sitting in or standing just outside a vehicle, according to a community alert from Chicago…
(Sun Times Wire) Two young brothers wounded in a shooting last week at an East Garfield Park barbershop have been released from the hospital. Lorenzo Matthews, 11, and his brother, 12-year-old Michael Smith, were released Saturday from Stroger Hospital, according to family spokeswoman Dawn Valenti. Matthews is recovering from gunshot wounds to his back, abdomen…
(Sun Times Wire) Sixteen people were shot across Chicago this weekend, three of them fatally, including a 17-year-old girl killed Friday in Englewood on the South Side. Camerie K. Crawford was standing in a vacant lot about 6:30 p.m. in the 6700 block of South Parnell Avenue when three males in a silver-colored sedan pulled…
(ABC) Two young brothers are among five people recovering after being shot at a barbershop in Chicago’s West Garfield Park neighborhood Thursday evening. The five victims remain in critical but stable condition Friday morning. Lorenzo Matthews, 11, and Michael Smith, 12, were at the barbershop. The boy’s mother said her younger son was shot three…
(Sun Times Wire) Six people were wounded Tuesday in shootings across Chicago. The day’s latest shooting left a man in critical condition in Wrightwood on the South Side. The man, 26, was walking to his vehicle about 9:40 p.m. when someone shot him in the 8000 block of South Francisco Avenue, Chicago police said. The…
(Sun Times Wire) A woman missing from Schaumburg has been found dead in the trunk of her own car on the West Side, according to police. Sureel Dabawala, 34, was reported missing by her family after she failed to return home on Dec. 30, according to a missing person alert from Schaumburg police. She was…
(ABC) Three people were killed and eight others were wounded in gun violence throughout Chicago over the weekend. The weekend’s latest fatal shooting left one man dead and injured another Sunday in West Humboldt Park. They were in a vehicle about 7:20 p.m. in an alley in the 4300-block of West Thomas Street when someone…
(Sun Times Wire) Robbers made off with more than $30,000 from an armored car Monday morning in Austin on the West Side. An armored car employee was confronted by gunmen in the 400 block of North Laramie Avenue after collecting money from a commercial business on that block, Chicago police said. Four suspects stole a…
(Sun Times Wire) Eighteen people were shot, three fatally, across Chicago in the first weekend of the year. A shootout Sunday on the city’s Southeast Side left two people dead and two others wounded. About 3:50 p.m., three men, 39, 27 and 20, were standing in the 10000 block of South Avenue M, when an…
(Sun Times Wire) Two people were killed and two others wounded in a shooting Sunday in the East Side neighborhood. About 3:50 p.m., three men, 39, 27 and 20, were standing in the 10000 block of South Avenue M, when an unknown vehicle pulled up and two males jumped out, Chicago police said. Both males…
(Sun Times Wire) A 49-year-old man was shot and killed by a security guard at a restaurant Saturday in Montclare on the Northwest Side. The guard shot Roberto Gonzales during an “armed confrontation” at 1:47 a.m. at a restaurant in the 7100 block of West Diversey Avenue, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s…
(Sun Times Wire) Two toddlers died early Thursday after a woman allegedly stabbed her grandfather, tossed one child out a window and then jumped from an 11th-floor South Shore apartment — leaving the other child scalded in a bathtub, Chicago police said. Police are investigating the case as an attempted murder-suicide. They believe the boys…
(Sun Times Wire) A man who died Thursday afternoon after an encounter with police on the Northwest Side apparently suffered both a self-inflicted gunshot wound as well as one caused by police fire, authorities said. The deadly encounter began as a traffic stop about 12:30 p.m. near the 6000 block of West Wellington Avenue in…
(Sun Times Wire) Six people were shot in Chicago on the last day of 2019, including a teenage boy who was critically wounded in Brainerd on the South Side. The boy, 16, was standing on the sidewalk about 2:25 p.m. Tuesday in the 9400 block of South Ashland Avenue when a male approached him, Chicago…
(Fox) A Chicago police officer who was injured in the line of duty over 30 years ago is back home and getting the honor he deserves. How it all came together is a Christmas miracle. The homecoming was arranged by his family, along with the Chicago Police Department and Police Memorial Foundation. “I remember the…
(ABC) A man arrested in connection with a shooting that hurt 13 people in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood over the weekend appeared in court Monday afternoon, where a judge ordered him held on $300,000 bond. Police said Marciano White, 37 was found with a gun in his bag at the scene of the mass shooting. “A…
(Sun Times Wire) A man convicted of killing off-duty Chicago Police Officer Michael Bailey in a botched car-jacking attempt nearly a decade ago was sentenced Thursday to life in prison. Before handing down the sentence for Antwon Carter, Cook County Judge Stanley Sacks pointed to multiple carjackings Carter committed in the weeks before and after…
(Sun Times Wire) Eight people were shot Wednesday in Chicago, including a 21-year-old man who was wounded in Chicago Lawn on the Southwest Side. He was walking about 8:22 p.m. in the 6100 block of South California Avenue when an unknown group of males started arguing with him, according to Chicago police. As the man…
(Sun Times Wire) Four people were shot Tuesday in Chicago, including a man who was killed in Humboldt Park on the West Side. Deondre Williams, 21, was standing on the sidewalk about 3:15 p.m. in the 3300 block of West Chicago Avenue when a dark-colored SUV approached him, Chicago police and the Cook County medical…
(Sun Times Wire) Five people were killed and 33 others wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago, including 13 people shot at a memorial party in Englewood. The shooting happened about 12:34 a.m. Sunday in the 5700 block of South May Street, Chicago police said. The incident stemmed from a dispute inside the home, Chief of…
(Sun Times Wire) The Chicago Police Department announced Tuesday the number of detective areas in the city is expanding from three back to five in order to improve response times, particularly on the West Side. Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel shuttered two of the original five. Mayor Lori Lightfoot mentioned the plan in October, and a…
(Sun Times Wire) Three people were wounded Monday in shootings across Chicago. The day’s latest shooting injured a 37-year-old woman in Uptown on the North Side. The woman was walking on the sidewalk about 6:50 p.m. in the 4900 block of North Kenmore Avenue when two people approached her and fired shots, Chicago police said.…
(Sun Times Wire) Two teenagers were killed and 15 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago this weekend. A 16-year-old girl was fatally shot Saturday in Little Village on the Southwest Side. About 9:45 p.m., Angie Monroy was walking on the sidewalk in the 2300 block of South Rockwell Street when shots were fired,…
(ABC) Two men were stabbed and critically injured after an argument became physical early Saturday morning in Chicago’s Loop, according to police. A 30-year-old man was walking with his girlfriend in the 300-block of North Michigan Avenue, near Wacker Drive, about 12:07 a.m., when he got into an argument with a group of people, police…
(Sun Times Wire) Two teens, including a 16-year-old girl, and a man were wounded Thursday in a shooting near an elementary school in Washington Heights on the South Side. The trio were in the 1000 block of West 103rd Street about 8:40 a.m. when they were approached by a small, tan SUV occupied by four…
(Sun Times Wire) Shootings across Chicago Thursday left at least one person dead and 10 others wounded. Ten people had been shot by mid-afternoon, including a 3-year-old boy who was struck outside a library in Lawndale. Two gunmen approached someone at 9:17 a.m. and let off several shots in the 3300 block of West 13th…
(Sun Times Wire) One person was wounded Wednesday in gun violence across Chicago. The only reported shooting happened about 4:37 p.m. in Lawndale on the West Side. A 19-year-old man was traveling south in a vehicle in the 1400 block of South Kedzie Avenue, when a vehicle pulled alongside him and someone inside opened fire,…
(Sun Times Wire) One person was killed and five others wounded Tuesday in Chicago, including two men who were shot — one of them fatally — within the same hour in separate shootings on the West Side. Authorities were called about 2:30 p.m. for shootings in Lawndale and West Garfield Park, according to a Chicago…
(ABC) An 18-year-old man was wounded inside a home on Chicago’s Northwest Side after a stray bullet entered the bedroom from a shooting outside Tuesday night, police said. The victim was inside a bedroom of a home in the 5200-block of West Schubert Avenue when at about 9:49 p.m. police said a male suspect fired…
(ABC) Three men are in custody after shots were fired at police Wednesday morning during a traffic stop in South Shore on the South Side, Chicago police said. According to police, around 12:05 a.m., officers on patrol requested assistance in an attempt to make a traffic stop for a black jeep in the 6900-block of…
Pastor Corey Brooks made a statement on Facebook about the death of Tyquan Manney, 18, shot and killed in Gresham this past weekend. R.I.P. Tyquan Manney – Sometimes living and ministering in the Hood to people on the margins can break your heart. TQ graduated from our school, was in our construction program and was…
(Sun Times Wire) Fifteen people were shot over the weekend across Chicago, including an 18-year-old man killed in Gresham on the South Side. Tyquan Manney was on the sidewalk about 11:40 a.m. Sunday in the 8700 block of South Lowe Avenue when someone walked up and fired shots at him, Chicago police and the Cook…
(ABC) A suspect was shot by Chicago police during a chase Wednesday night in East Garfield Park, police said. Chicago Police Department Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi described the incident as an “armed encounter” between police and the suspect. According to Area North Deputy Chief Ernest Cato, officers were responding to a disturbance around 8:30 p.m. near…
