(Sun Times Wire) Two people were killed and at least three others were wounded Thursday in shootings across Chicago. The…
(Sun Times Wire) Four people were shot, one of them fatally, Wednesday in Chicago including a 25-year-old man who was…
(Sun Times Wire) One person was killed and eight others wounded Tuesday in shootings across Chicago. A 29-year-old man was…
(Sun Times Wire) Four people were shot, one of them fatally, Monday in Chicago including a man in his 20s…
(Sun Times Wire) At least five people were killed and 25 others wounded in shootings across Chicago this weekend. By…
(Sun Times Wire) Two people were killed and at least three others were wounded Thursday in shootings across Chicago. The two homicides happened in Austin on the West Side, while a 14-year-old boy was wounded in South Shore and a man was hurt in Englewood. The first murder unfolded about 2:35 p.m. in the 1500…
(Sun Times Wire) One person was killed and eight others wounded Tuesday in shootings across Chicago. A 29-year-old man was fatally shot early Tuesday in Chatham on the South Side, police said. The man was inside a 2nd-floor apartment about 1:15 a.m. in the 7900 block of South Harvard Avenue when a male kicked down…
(Sun Times Wire) Four people were shot, one of them fatally, Monday in Chicago including a man in his 20s who was shot and killed in the Brighton Park neighborhood. About 11:25 a.m. officers found him lying on a sidewalk in the 4000 block of South Sacramento Avenue, Chicago police said in a statement. He…
(Sun Times Wire) At least five people were killed and 25 others wounded in shootings across Chicago this weekend. By Sunday morning, the weekend was nearly as deadly as the entire previous weekend, when six died and 24 others were hurt. Shooting spree kills at least 3 At least three people were killed and four…
(Sun Times Wire) Two people were killed and four others were wounded Thursday in shootings across Chicago. In the day’s latest fatal attack, a man was killed in a shooting Thursday night in East Garfield Park. He was found laying face down and unconscious in an alley about 11:20 p.m. in the 3800 block of…
(Sun Times Wire) Three people were killed and six more were wounded Wednesday in shootings across Chicago. The day’s latest fatal attack left a 22-year-old man dead in Humboldt Park on the West Side. The man was traveling in a car about 2:45 p.m. when someone opened fire at him near North and Kedzie avenues,…
(Sun Times Wire) Seven people were shot, three of them fatally, Monday in Chicago, including a man who was shot and killed during a home invasion in Englewood on the South Side. According to a witness, three males wearing ski masks entered the man’s apartment about 9:34 p.m. in the 5600 block of South Princeton…
(Sun Times Wire) At least six people were killed and 24 others wounded in citywide shootings over the holiday weekend. In the weekend’s latest fatal attack, a man was found dead in a car Sunday evening in Grand Crossing on the South Side. He was identified as Quinyon M. Norman Jr. by the Cook County…
(Sun Times Wire) Cook County saw more gun-related homicides and opioid-related deaths in 2020 than in any other year on record, authorities said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office, which investigates and processes deaths in Chicago and many of its suburbs, announced Friday it closed out the year with the “grim” statistics of 970 homicides,…
(Sun Times Wire) A man was killed and two teenage girls were wounded Wednesday in shootings across Chicago. The day’s lone fatal attack happened on the South Side, where a 28-year-old man was gunned down near the border of Englewood and Park Manor. The man was arguing with four males about 9:30 p.m. in the…
(Sun Times Wire) Six people were shot, three of them fatally, Monday in Chicago, including a man who was fatally shot inside a home in Gresham on the South Side. The 33-year-old was found unresponsive about 9:15 p.m. on the kitchen floor of a residence in the 8300 block of South Kerfoot Avenue, with a…
(Sun Times Wire) 13-year-old boy was fatally shot Sunday in Vittum Park on the Southwest Side. He was identified as Xavier Quiroz by the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The boy was standing in the 5500 block of South Archer Avenue about 9 a.m., when he was shot multiple times, Chicago police said. The teen…
(Sun Times Wire) Thirteen people were shot Wednesday in Chicago, including a 26-year-old man who was shot in an attempted robbery in Park Manor on the South Side. About 11:30 p.m., he was walking in the 700 block of East 75th Street, when two males got out of a black vehicle, approached him and announced…
(Sun Times Wire) Eleven people were shot, three of them fatally, Monday in Chicago, including a man who was killed in a shooting during a robbery in Bridgeport on the South Side. About 6:30 p.m., the 33-year-old was shot in the chest during “the commission of a robbery” in the 3000 block of South Union…
(Sun Times Wire) At least eight people were killed and 32 others wounded in shootings across Chicago this weekend, including a half dozen people wounded in a single attack at a South Side party. The victims were holding an after-hours party early Saturday at the Get Glammed Beauty Bar, 8936 S. Cottage Grove, when a…
(Fox) Seven people were shot, one of them fatally, Wednesday in Chicago, including a man who was found fatally shot in Riverdale on the Far South Side. Officers responded to a Shotspotter alert about 11:20 p.m., and with help from a police helicopter found a man unresponsive near a parking lot in the 300 block…
(Sun Times Wire) A 16-year-old boy was among two people killed Tuesday evening in a shooting that left a third person critically wounded in Zion in the north suburbs. Kanye Marshall, 16, and Rodney Lovelace, 27, were fatally shot in the 2800 block of Galilee Avenue, according to the Lake County coroner’s office. A third…
(Sun Times Wire) At least five people were wounded in shootings Tuesday in Chicago, including two people shot within hours of each other in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side. In the last reported shooting, a 23-year-old man was shot as he walked in the 1900 block of South Trumbull Avenue, Chicago police…
(Sun Times Wire) At least five people were wounded in shootings Monday in Chicago, including a 17-year-old boy shot in Burnside on the South Side. He was on the sidewalk about 10 p.m. in the 500 block of East 92nd Street, when someone fired shots from a black sedan, Chicago police said. The teen was…
(Sun Times Wire) Police released photos Wednesday of a Jeep wanted in connection with the October slaying of a 32-year-old man in Roseland on the Far South Side. Deshawn McKinney was shot to death about 4:30 p.m. Oct. 24 in the 11400 block of South Calumet Avenue. Police said at the time that someone in…
(Sun Times Wire) At least three people were killed and 15 others wounded in shootings across Chicago this weekend. Sunday evening, a man was found shot to death at a home in Washington Park. Officers conducting a well-being check at the home about 7 p.m. in the 300 block of East 53rd Street found the…
(Sun Times Wire) A woman was found in a vacant field beaten to death Friday morning in Bronzeville on the South Side. About 4:30 a.m., police responded to a call of a body found in the 4900 block of South Prairie Avenue, Chicago police said. The woman was found unresponsive with bruising and swelling to…
(Sun Times Wire) Four people were shot, one of them fatally Thursday in Chicago. A 39-year-old man was killed Thursday morning in Burnside on the South Side. He was inside his home about 5:35 a.m. in the 500 block of East 89th Street when three males entered and fired shots, Chicago police said. He was…
(Sun Times Wire) Eight people were shot, one of them fatally, Wednesday in Chicago, including an incident where an off-duty Chicago police officer fatally shot his son during a domestic incident in Garfield Ridge on the Southwest Side, according to a source with knowledge of the shooting. Rafael Flores, 23, was shot about 1:50 a.m.…
(Sun Times Wire) Two south suburban men sold devices that convert handguns into fully automatic weapons, which one man said were for “people who want to shoot some people, gangbangers and s—,” federal authorities say. Steve Goley, 23, and Leonard Johnson, 32, are accused of selling switches that turn semiautomatic Glock handguns into machine guns,…
(Sun Times Wire) An off-duty Chicago police officer fatally shot his son during a domestic incident early Wednesday in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood on the Southwest Side, according to a source with knowledge of the shooting. Rafael Flores, 23, was shot about 1:50 a.m. in a home in the 5600 block of South Nottingham, according…
(Sun Times Wire) Five people were killed and 34 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago this weekend. The latest fatal attack left a man dead Sunday evening in Austin on the West Side. About 9:14 p.m., the 34-year-old was in the 4900 block of West Hubbard Street when three people approached him and one…
(Sun Times Wire) Cook County has recorded more than 900 homicides this year, the second time the county has surpassed the grim milestone in nearly 25 years. The last time the county surpassed 900 homicides in a year was in 2016. That year, the county saw 921 homicides, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.…
(Sun Times Wire) Two people were killed and two more were injured Wednesday after a shooting led to a crash in Lawndale on the West Side. Just before 8 p.m., people inside a westbound Chevrolet fired shots toward a Kia in the 4300 block of West Roosevelt Road, Chicago police said. The Kia eventually veered…
Chicago Police officers faced a three-fold increase in shootings directed at Cops. Chicago police officers have been shot at 71 times this year, and 10 officers have been struck by bullets. In the same period of 2019, officers were shot at 18 times, with three officers struck by gunfire. In July, three police officers were…
(Sun Times Wire) Chicago gun violence continued to decline with the cooler weather in November, but shootings and murders are still spiking compared with last year. Nearly 3,800 people were shot in Chicago this year through the end of November, compared with about 2,400 shooting victims in the same period last year — a 58%…
