(Fox) One person was killed and six people were wounded in shootings between about 5 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.…
(Sun Times Wire) Three people were killed and 13 others were wounded in shootings across the city between about 1…
(Tribune) Wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the city of Chicago flag, Donta Lucas described some considerable troubles he has faced…
BLOODY CHICAGO VIDEO: It was a very violent Father’s Day Weekend in Chicago, 54 people were shot, 9 of them…
(WLS) A woman was killed and five other people wounded in a shooting in the University Village neighborhood Monday morning…
(Fox) One person was killed and six people were wounded in shootings between about 5 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. The day’s only fatal shooting happened at 9:38 p.m. in the South Side Englewood neighborhood. A 24-year-old man was walking in the 5000 block of South Wood when a masked person approached from behind and…
(Sun Times Wire) Three people were killed and 13 others were wounded in shootings across the city between about 1 a.m. and 11 p.m. Monday. By 5 a.m., 11 people had been shot. The most recent fatal shooting happened about 1:35 p.m. in the West Side Austin neighborhood. Anthony Perry, 30, was shot in the…
(Tribune) Wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the city of Chicago flag, Donta Lucas described some considerable troubles he has faced in his 34 years — growing up in the tough Cabrini-Green public housing development and later being homeless. But what he was not, Lucas told reporters Tuesday in a halting voice, was a gang member.…
BLOODY CHICAGO VIDEO: It was a very violent Father’s Day Weekend in Chicago, 54 people were shot, 9 of them fatally. There were also 2 mass shootings, in the first incident 6 people were shot and 1, was killed in the University Village neighborhood, and another 4 people were shot in the little village neighborhood, and 3 more people were shot in the east Garfield park neighborhood. All within a 72-hour period here in Chicago.
(WLS) A woman was killed and five other people wounded in a shooting in the University Village neighborhood Monday morning and one of the wounded was initially presumed dead, Chicago police said. ABC VIDEO OF THE INCIDENT The shooting took place in the 1300-block of South Loomis Street at about 4:45 a.m. and stemmed from…
(AP)Troubled rapper-singer XXXTentacion was shot and killed Monday in Florida in what police called an apparent robbery attempt. The 20-year-old rising star, whose real name is Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, was pronounced dead Monday evening at a Fort Lauderdale-area hospital, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. He was shot earlier outside a Deerfield Beach motorcycle dealership. XXXTentacion…
(ABC) A 9-year-old boy was killed and his mother and sibling were seriously injured Saturday night in a hit-and-run crash in southwest suburban Burbank. Police are still looking for the driver. “Heartless! A very heartless person. You know, not caring about anybody, not even himself,” said Loretta Harris, victim’s neighbor. Police said at about 9:45…
(Tribune) Chicago police are investigating how a Humboldt Park man with a long criminal history got a loaded handgun past officers and into the police station lockup over the weekend. The .22-caliber handgun was discovered by a cleaner while tidying the holding cell at the police station at 2452 W. Belmont Ave., according to police…
(Sun Times Wire) Two people were killed and 10 others wounded in shootings across Chicago within 24 hours Friday. All of the shooting happened after 5 p.m. Seven people alone were shot between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. A double homicide on the South Side claimed the life of a bystander, according to police. Two…
(ABC) A 12-year-old girl was fatally shot and a 36-year-old man was wounded Thursday night in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. About 11:20 p.m., the girl and the man were outside at a gathering in the 4200 block of West Wilcox Street, police said. The man heard shots and then realized he…
(ABC) More than 50 people were charged this week, including an alleged Mexico-based drug trafficker and other men from the Chicago area and Wisconsin, as part of a massive federal and state investigation into heroin and fentanyl sales on Chicago’s West Side, federal officials announced Wednesday. According to the federal complaints, the “Operation Full Circle”…
(Fox) One man was killed and 3 other people were wounded between midnight and 11:59 p.m. Tuesday in shootings across the city. The only fatal shooting happened in the Park Manor neighborhood at 2:32 a.m. Patrick Mason, 50, was sitting in the drivers seat of a minivan when a male fired shots, striking him in…
(ABC) New property owners made a gruesome discovery Tuesday morning when they found a woman’s body in a garage. Neighbors said the woman’s body was discovered around 8 a.m. in the garage of a home in the 100-block of West 104th in the city’s Roseland neighborhood. Neighbors said it was found by new owners who…
(Tribune) Two summers ago when he was 16, the South Side teen carjacked a motorist at a gas station in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood, speeding away in the 2009 Kia Rondo. Now 18, he told a Chicago Tribune reporter that he considers cars to be status symbols. He’s kept ones he’s stolen for…
(Tribune) A former Chicago police detective invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 200 times Tuesday in a federal civil trial where he is accused of framing a man for a 1988 murder. In a little more than an hour on the witness stand, Reynaldo Guevara refused to answer a barrage of questions…
(WGN) The Chicago Crime Commission is unveiling a new street-gang book that’ll serve as a guide for regional police and others keeping tabs on gangs. The official release of the 2018 Gang Book on Tuesday is the first time since 2012 the crime-prevention group has released a new Gang Book. The Associated Press obtained advanced…
(ABC) Lamanta Reese lived much of his gang life in virtual reality, posting videos on YouTube of him and others taunting rivals. He died at age 19 in the real world, bleeding from his head onto a porch on Chicago’s South Side after one of those gang rivals, prosecutors say, shot him 11 times. Another…
(Fox) Eight people were wounded in shootings across the city between 2 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday. The most recent shooting left a 27-year-old man wounded about 7:55 p.m. in the South Side Kenwood neighborhood. The man showed up to Mercy Hospital with an apparent gunshot wound to the right leg after being shot in…
(Sun Times Wire) Nine people were killed and at least 29 others were wounded in weekend shootings in Chicago. Shootings across the city wounded 12-year-old boy on the Far South Side, and wounded a woman who tried to break up a fight in University Village, from 5 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday. In the…
(ABC) An 81-year-old woman was found beaten to death and put in a storage bin in Chicago’s Rosemoor neighborhood, a source tells ABC7. Chicago police were on the scene Sunday shortly before noon at a home in the Rosemoor neighborhood in the 1000-block of South Forest Avenue. Police said the 81-year-old woman was found with…
(ABC) One person was killed and five others wounded in a shooting in the Woodlawn neighborhood Sunday morning, Chicago police said. Police said the victims were standing outside in the 6400-block of South Eberhart Avenue when shots were fired at about 1:10 a.m. Police said it may have been a drive-by shooting and the victims…
(ABC) Seven people were wounded in a shooting in Aurora that apparently occurred during a child’s birthday party Sunday, police said. Police responded to a home in the 300-block of West Park Avenue just after midnight and discovered six people wounded, with a seventh person driven to a hospital by a relative. Investigators said the…
(Sun Times Wire) Four people were in custody after a shooting wounded a man and a woman Saturday night in the Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side. About 8:20 p.m., people in separate vehicles started shooting each other in the 2000 block of North Keeler Avenue, Chicago Police said. A 24-year-old was shot in his…
(WGN) A woman whose body was found behind a Dolton garage Friday had been shot multiple times, according to media reports. The body was found about 10:30 a.m. Friday near 146th Street and Woodlawn Avenue in Dolton, Ill. Family told WGN News the person found was a female postal worker who lived in the south…
(Sun Times Wire) Lawyers representing the family of Maurice Granton Jr. gathered outside Chicago Police Department headquarters Saturday afternoon to demand the release of body camera footage days after an officer fatally shot the 24-year-old in the back last week in Bronzeville. Attorneys Antonio Romanucci and Andrew Stroth said the video will factor into the…
(Sun Times Wire) Three men were wounded, two of them seriously, in shooting Sunday morning in the South Side Gresham neighborhood. At 6:42 a.m., the men were in the 7800 block of South Ashland when someone walked up and fired shots, striking them all, according to Chicago Police. They showed up at a Chicago Fire…
(WLS) A man who had been on the run after the shooting of an undercover ATF agent in Gary, Indiana has been taken into custody, the ATF said Saturday. Bernard Graham, 25, of Calumet City surrendered to federal authorities at about 12:15 p.m. Saturday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana said.…
(WLS) A 24-year-old man was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer Wednesday night on the city’s South Side. Police said Maurice Granton Jr. was armed, but his family said the gun recovered at the scene wasn’t his. “I don’t know what happened and occurred, but we’ll find out and get to the bottom…
(Sun Times Wire) Seven men were wounded Thursday in shootings across Chicago, including four men wounded in separate double shootings in the South Side Bronzeville neighborhood. The last reported shooting of the day wounded a delivery man in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side. About 11:45 p.m., the 57-year-old man was making a…
(Tribune) Maurice Granton walked out of a hospital last weekend with a graze wound near his right eye, refusing to cooperate with police who found him lying in an alley in Chatham on the South Side, authorities said. Days later, barely 4 miles away in Bronzeville, police say Granton started running from plainclothes officers working…
(Fox) A body was found in a garage Thursday night just a short distance from where a young woman disappeared nearly two weeks ago on the West Side. This all comes amid growing concerns over other missing persons’ cases in the area. There is no word from investigators on whether the body found is the…
(ABC) An agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Chicago Field Division was shot during an undercover operation in Gary on Thursday, the agency said. Federal authorities said at a news conference Thursday afternoon that the agents “were ambushed.” One agent was shot multiple times and transported to Methodist Hospitals Northlake Campus…
(Tribune) Chicago police officer shot and killed a man in Bronzeville Wednesday night after he refused to stop running away and pulled a gun, authorities said. “An armed encounter between the offender and police ensued,” the police department said in a statement. “An officer discharged his weapon fatally striking the offender.” The department released no…
(Fox) One person was killed and seven people were wounded between 1:03 a.m. and 11:02 p.m. Wednesday in shootings across the city. The day’s only fatal shooting happened in the South Side Bronzeville neighborhood when a Chicago police officer fatally struck a suspect who ran away from police during a narcotics mission. The shooting happened…
(SUN TIMES WIRE) A 21-year-old man is facing charges after a young child accidentally shot another young child Monday in south suburban Ford Heights. Mikaehl Allen was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor counts of child endangerment and allowing a minor to access a firearm, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office. Authorities said Allen, who is…
