(Sun Times Wire) Eight people were shot, two of them fatally, Thursday across Chicago. Two men died after firing shots…
(ABC) A jury found alleged gang member Jerrell Dorsey guilty in the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old girl as she…
(Tribune) A South Side property owner and a man recently released from state prison on parole fatally shot each other…
(Sun Times Wire) Three people were killed and seven more were injured Wednesday in shootings across Chicago. An 18-year-old was…
(Sun Times Wire) Four people were shot — one of them fatally — Tuesday in gun violence across Chicago. A…
(Sun Times Wire) Eight people were shot, two of them fatally, Thursday across Chicago. Two men died after firing shots at each other during an apparent attempted robbery in Park Manor on the South Side. About 10:20 a.m., Mark Miller, 64, was inside of a home in the 6800 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue…
(Tribune) A South Side property owner and a man recently released from state prison on parole fatally shot each other Thursday morning during what Chicago police said appeared to be an armed robbery gone wrong. The deadly exchange of gunfire occurred outside a residence in the 6800 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue in the…
(Sun Times Wire) Three people were killed and seven more were injured Wednesday in shootings across Chicago. An 18-year-old was shot to death in a Logan Square apartment on the Northwest Side. About 10:43 p.m., the man was in a second floor apartment in the 2200 block of North Avers Street when several males walked…
(Sun Times Wire) Two people were killed and five others wounded Monday in shootings across Chicago. A 25-year-old man was found dead in a vehicle in Chicago Lawn on the South Side. About 10:09 p.m., officers responded to a call of shots fired in the area and found the man sitting unresponsive in the driver’s…
(Sun Times Wire) At least 19 people were shot, three fatally, across Chicago this weekend. The latest killing happened Sunday morning, when a 23-year-old woman was shot while sitting in a vehicle in South Chicago. Antoinette Brown was sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked car at 10:38 a.m. in the 8900 block of…
Bloody Chicago Video: From April 1st 10 April 14th 115 people were shot 91 of them were wounded and 24 were killed across the Chicagoland area and suddenly the shootings stopped, because of the dramatic change in weather, this is the only sure cure I know that puts the brakes on the violence on the bloody streets of Chicago…..
(ABC) One person is dead, and two others rushed to the hospital after a shooting on I-55 early Saturday morning. Traffic on the Stevenson Expressway was also impacted for hours at Cicero as Illinois State Police investigate. It happened in the inbound lanes of the Stevenson at Cicero according to officials. Illinois State Police said…
(Sun Times Wire) Two boys were running on a sidewalk when they were struck by gunfire Friday in Washington Park on the South Side. The boys, ages 13 and 14, told investigators they heard shots and realized they were hit, Chicago police said. The shooting happened about 9:15 p.m. in the 5200 block of South…
(Patch) A man and woman were arrested on the scene of a home invasion where they had gone looking for drugs, prosecutors said. Trevon Williams, 23, of Bellwood, and Jasmine Edwards, 25, of Cincinnati, OH, appeared before Judge John Mahoney on class x felony charges of home invasion with a firearm and armed robbery. Williams…
(Sun Times Wire) Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said Thursday that a task force has been convened to investigate possible links between the deaths of over 50 women who have been found slain across the city since 2001. Bishop Gregg L. Greer, of Freedom First International, raised the issue during the public comment section of…
(Sun Times Wire) A 17-year-old boy was fatally shot in south suburban Markham. The shooting happened about 10:35 a.m. Sunday in the 2900 block of West 159th Street, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. James Fluker Jr. was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died three days later on…
(Sun Times Wire) Seven people were shot Wednesday in Chicago, including two men killed in West Garfield Park. Four people were standing at 9:53 a.m. on the corner of St. Louis and Ohio streets when a vehicle pulled up and two gunmen got out, opening fire on the group, Chicago Police Deputy Chief Al Nagode…
(Sun Times Wire) More than four years after Laquan McDonald was killed by a Chicago police officer, hearings began Wednesday to determine whether four other officers accused of lying about the shooting should be fired. The Chicago Police Board will not make a ruling in the case for another few months. But the hearings this…
(WGN) Chicago police are investigating multiple shootings that left one person dead and eight others injured. A total of five different shootings took place within a three-hour window, beginning at 7:40 p.m. Tuesday. In the first incident at 102nd and Perry, police say two men were shot. One of those victims was sitting in a…
(Sun Times Wire) Three men were wounded in a drive-by shooting Tuesday in Englewood on the South Side. They were standing outside a vehicle in the 5700 block of South Aberdeen when a dark-colored car pulled up and someone inside fired shots, Chicago police said. Two of them were struck several times by bullets at…
(Sun Times Wire) A police-led anti-violence rally drew more than 100 people Tuesday evening on the same Englewood block where an attack left six people — including two children — shot over the weekend. Glen Brooks, the Chicago Police Department’s director of public engagement, led the “Operation Wake Up” rally at the corner of 64th…
(Sun Times Wire) While top law enforcement officers are at each other’s throats over the Cook County State’s attorney’s office handling of the Jussie Smollett fiasco, a lot of people are getting away with murder. That’s a chilling thought. Even worse, I’m beginning to suspect that some of the shootings involving young black women are…
(ABC) A 14-year-old girl was shot and seriously wounded moments after she entered her apartment with her family Monday night on the South Side, police said. The shooting occurred at about 9:45 p.m. in the 2700-block of South Indiana Avenue. Police said the teenager had just walked into the apartment when police said someone fired…
(WGN) Friends and family were celebrating a birthday and a baby shower in front of a West Englewood home Saturday when someone inside a passing SUV fired into the crowd, wounding two children and four adults. People were gathered outside a house near 63rd and Seeley around 6:30 p.m. Saturday when witnesses say a red…
(ABC) A 26-year-old man who stole a car and then threatened police with knife was fatally shot by police Friday night in west suburban Glendale Heights. Julius Glover, of Carol Stream, was shot by a Bloomingdale police officer, authorities said. At about 7 p.m., Bloomingdale police officers were called to the Walmart on West Army…
(Fox) One man was killed and nine people wounded Wednesday in shootings across Chicago. The man, 22, was killed Wednesday morning in South Chicago in a shooting that left two other men injured, Chicago police said. Two males walked up and fired at the group at 10:36 a.m. in the 8500 block of South Exchange…
(Sun Times Wire) The Chicago Police Department’s Ogden District on the West Side is no stranger to shootings, encompassing some of the most historically violent parts of the city. On Wednesday, though, the district’s leadership announced that shootings were down by 50 percent in 2019 compared to the first three months of last year. Between…
(Sun Times Wire) Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday urged her former colleagues at the U.S. Attorney’s office to re-examine code of silence acquittals against three Chicago Police officers accused of covering up the police shooting of Laquan McDonald. Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke was found guilty of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated…
(Sun Times Wire) Three people were shot across Chicago Tuesday, a sharp decline from the nine shot both Sunday and Monday. Two of Tuesday’s shootings, however, were fatal. Late Tuesday night, a 19-year-old woman was shot and killed in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side. She was shot in the back about 11:50…
(Tribune) Hundreds of opposing protesters converged in front of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s downtown office Monday, continuing the fierce and divisive reaction to prosecutors’ decision to drop all charges against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett. Members of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police rallied outside the Cook County Administration Building, many wearing buttons that…
(Fox) At least nine people were shot in Chicago for the second consecutive day, including four killed in Monday’s gun violence. Two women are dead and a man injured after a shooting Monday night in the Greater Grand Crossing area on the South Side. Brittani Rice, 18, and Senobia Bratley, 19, were sitting in a…
(Sun Times Wire) Nineteen people were wounded, three of them fatally, in a series of weekend shootings on Chicago’s South and West sides. Early Sunday, a man was shot to death and four others were struck by gunfire when someone started shooting into a throng of people in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the…
Warning Graphic: Bloody Chicago Video: This is Part FIVE of In the Line of Duty Suburbs/ Illinois, it’s about police involved shootings, violence in the streets and gives you a glimpse of what’s coming to the suburbs. I did my best to fair when analyzing these shootings and stuck strictly to the facts that were available.
(Sun Times Wire) Five people were shot, one fatally, Sunday morning in a shooting in East Garfield Park. About 3:02 a.m., the victims were standing on a sidewalk in the 500 block of North Hamlin Avenue when someone approached the group on foot and opened fire, Chicago police said. A 22-year-old man who suffered multiple…
(Fox) The family of Trooper Brooke Jones-Story released a statement Saturday night, fondly recalling the life of a woman dedicated to her family and the protection of others. Jones-Story, who was hit and killed Thursday by a semitrailer while she was investigating a vehicle near Rockford, was the sixteenth state trooper hit by a vehicle…
