(Sun Times Wire) At least two people were shot within city limits on Wednesday. The most recent gun violence was…
(ABC) The family of a man shot by a Chicago police officer was awarded a $1.18 million in a wrongful…
(Sun Times Wire) Two people were wounded in shootings Tuesday in Chicago. It was the second day with single-digit shooting…
(Sun Times Wire) Three people were wounded Monday in citywide shootings within 24 hours. It was a dramatic decrease in…
(Sun Times Wire) A Cook County jury on Monday found rapper Shawn “Lil Shawn”Randall guilty of the 2015 murder of…
(Sun Times Wire) At least two people were shot within city limits on Wednesday. The most recent gun violence was reported in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side. At 11:41 p.m., someone shot an 18-year-old man inside an alley in the 12400 block of South Perry Avenue, according to Chicago police. He…
(ABC) The family of a man shot by a Chicago police officer was awarded a $1.18 million in a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday. At the time of the shooting in June 2015, police described Alfontish Cockerham as a gang member who had previously battered another officer, but the circumstances of surrounding the shooting were enough…
(Sun Times Wire) Two people were wounded in shootings Tuesday in Chicago. It was the second day with single-digit shooting victims, following a violent Sunday when 22 people were shot — two of them fatally. The last reported shooting Tuesday wounded a man in the South Side Gresham neighborhood. The 29-year-old was walking about 4:15…
(Sun Times Wire) Three people were wounded Monday in citywide shootings within 24 hours. It was a dramatic decrease in gun violence from Sunday, when two people were killed and 20 others wounded. The last shooting Monday wounded two men in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side. They were entering a vehicle about 5 p.m. in…
(Sun Times Wire) A Cook County jury on Monday found rapper Shawn “Lil Shawn”Randall guilty of the 2015 murder of a rival gang member who was gunned down in front of his girlfriend and three young children. Jurors took a little longer than three hours to convict 22-year-old Randall for the murder of Vallan Francis.…
(Sun Times Wire) Bail was denied Monday for a man accused of killing his former friend during a fight last week in Brighton Park. Eduardo Venegas, 18, was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of 23-year-old Rigoberto Rodriguez on Friday. Officers responded to the shooting about 4 p.m. in the 3000 block of West…
(Sun Times Wire) Chicago saw two people killed and 27 others wounded in shootings this weekend, surpassing gun violence tolls of any weekend since October. Much of the shootings — and both fatalities — happened on Sunday, when 22 people were shot On Saturday, five were wounded by gunfire. Eight people were shot on Friday, two of whom…
(Sun Times Wire) At least eight people were shot, one fatally, in citywide gun violence on Friday. The only homicide occurred during the afternoon in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side, according to Chicago police. Rigoberto Rodriguez, 23, was found in a gangway about 4:10 p.m. in the 3000 block of West 39th Place, according to…
(Sun Times Wire) An 18-year-old man was found guilty Thursday of fatally shooting a 311 operator in 2016 a block from the Bronzeville headquarters of the Chicago Police Department. Javion Harris was convicted of two counts of murder and a count of attempted murder, according to court records. His jury trial had begun Monday before…
(Sun Times Wire) At least six people were wounded in citywide shootings during a 24-hour period Thursday, including a man struck by a bullet inside a Loop CTA station’s bustling pedestrian tunnel. The 27-year-old was shot about 5 p.m. in a passageway between the Red and Blue lines at Jackson, according to Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Fred…
It takes time for the CPD to investigate shootings like this eventually the facts come out and the shooter or shooters are brought to justice. Last summer On July 27th a man was fatally shot on the Dan Ryan Expressway, a South Shore man is accused of this murder. The shooter was a backseat passenger in…
(Sun Times Wire) At least nine people were wounded in shootings Wednesday throughout Chicago during a 24-hour period. The last shooting wounded a man in the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side. The 25-year-old was standing outside about 10:50 p.m. in the 4700 block of North Kimball Avenue when a black car passed by…
(ABC) Chicago police shot and wounded a suspect after police said he drove his car at officers in the Lawndale neighborhood Wednesday night. The shooting occurred at about 11:30 p.m. in the 3900-block of West Roosevelt Road when Chicago police officers spotted a white SUV that was wanted for firing several gunshots in the area.…
(ABC) Celebrations will be held this weekend for Chicago historian Timuel Black, who is turning 100 years old. Black, who has appeared on ABC7 to talk about the city’s history, came to Chicago as an infant in 1919. He survived the Great Depression and made supply runs to the front lines during World War II.…
(Sun Times Wire) At least four people were shot, two fatally, in citywide gun violence on Tuesday. The most recent death from gunfire was a man found shot to death at night in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, according to police. The man, 21, was found with multiple gunshot wounds to…
(Sun Times Wire) Bail was denied on Wednesday for a West Side man accused of fatally stabbing a 58-year-old man in an apparently random attack last month in Lawndale. After being taken into custody on Sunday, 24-year-old Darius Mayze allegedly told detectives, “I just get up and go kill when I feel like it,” Cook…
(Sun Times Wire) At least seven people were shot — three fatally — within city limits on Monday, including a 25-year-old woman killed in a murder-suicide. A 27-year-old man, Derell D. Sykes, shot her about 8:15 p.m. in the Stony Island Park neighborhood on the South Side, according to Chicago police and the Cook County…
(Sun Times Wire) A street vendor was shot to death Monday evening in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side, police said. At 5:38 p.m., the 55-year-old man was selling items in the 2700 block of West Fluornoy when someone fired shots, striking him in the lower back, according to Chicago police. He was taken…
(Tribune) Under pressure over the department’s abysmally low rate of solving shootings, Chicago police announced plans Monday to add 50 more sergeants next year to improve its supervision of detectives investigating violent crime. The department also said it will bring in experts from the Los Angeles Police Department and the U.S. Department of Justice to…
(ABC) Four people were killed and 23 others wounded in shootings throughout Chicago over the weekend. The gun violence surpassed the toll of the extended Thanksgiving weekend, which was twice as long but saw four killed and 19 wounded. Three of the homicides this weekend happened early Sunday and included a man shot dead while…
(Sun Times Wire) A man was killed and eight others wounded Thursday within 12 hours of gun violence across Chicago. The homicide happened near the Howard Red Line station in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side. John Williams, 42, was standing on a sidewalk about 11:10 p.m. in the 1600 block of West…
(Sun Times Wire) A man was killed and three others wounded in Chicago gun violence within 24 hours Tuesday. A 19-year-old man died after he was shot multiple times in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side. The man was shot at 7:05 p.m. in the 100 block of North Laramie Avenue, according to Chicago…
(ABC) Family members and colleagues gathered Monday for the funeral for fallen Chicago police Officer Samuel Jimenez, who was fatally shot a week ago as a gunman opened fire at Mercy Hospital. “He didn’t live for himself. He lived for the people of this city, protecting them and putting others’ lives before his own as…
(Sun Times Wire) At least four people were shot and wounded in citywide gun violence on Monday, all of them teenagers struck during drive-by attacks. The last reported shooting happened during the evening in the border of the Rogers Park and West Rogers Park neighborhoods on the North Side. About 7:15 p.m., someone in a…
(Tribune) The trial kicking off Tuesday over an alleged cover-up by Chicago police in the controversial killing of Laquan McDonald isn’t just rare — it’s unprecedented. Former Detective David March, ex-Officer Joseph Walsh and Officer Thomas Gaffney are believed to be the first Chicago cops ever to face criminal “code of silence” charges stemming from…
(Fox) A 60-year-old woman was found beaten to death Monday evening at a home on the Far South Side. About 7:35 p.m., family members found Doris A. Moore on the floor of the home in the 300 block of West 115th Street, which borders the Roseland and West Pullman neighborhoods, according to Chicago police and…
(Sun Times Wire) Four people have been killed and 19 others wounded in citywide shootings over the Thanksgiving weekend, including a teenage boy shot dead by an off-duty officer during an armed robbery early Thanksgiving Day. About 2:20 a.m., the officer was sitting in his personal vehicle in the 5800 block of North Talman when…
(Fox) Two people were killed, including a teenage boy fatally shot by an off-duty Chicago police officer, and 10 others were wounded in citywide gun violence since the Thanksgiving holiday weekend began on Wednesday night. The police-involved shooting happened early Thanksgiving Day when an off-duty Chicago police officer killed a 16-year-old boy who tried to…
(Sun Times Wire) A 16-year-old boy was killed and another teenage boy was in custody after attempting to rob an off-duty Chicago police officer at gunpoint Thursday morning in the Arcadia Terrace neighborhood on the Northwest Side. At 2:23 a.m., the two teens approached a CPD officer who was inside his personal vehicle parked in…
(Sun Times Wire) Five people were shot — two fatally — in citywide gun violence on Wednesday. The two deaths came from a double homicide during the morning inside a South Side Englewood neighborhood home. Yvonne Randle, 61, and Antonio McDaniels, 20, were found shot at 9:53 a.m. inside a home in the 6600 block…
Bloody Chicago Video: This episode covers Chicago Cops, Gang indictments over the past 4 years, the Mercy Hospital mass shooting that killed one Chicago Police Officer Samuel Jimenez, ER Doctor Tamara O’Neal, Pharmacy Tech Dayna Less.
A shootout between cops and an armed suspect that wounded a cop shot in his bullet proof vest on the south-side.
The stabbing of a Cook County Sheriff and a violent shooting on the west-side.
Our Condolences to the families affected by the Mercy Hospital mass shooting.
V Maggio
(Sun Times Wire) At least four people were wounded — two fatally — Tuesday in citywide gun violence that included the second time a Chicago police officer was shot within 24 hours this week. The CPD officer took a bullet to the vest in an exchange of gunfire that wounded another person Tuesday morning after…
(Fox) A Chicago police officer was shot in the vest and another person was wounded in an exchange of gunfire Tuesday morning after a traffic stop in the South Side Gresham neighborhood. Gresham District officers performed a traffic stop at 10:57 a.m. near 87th and Ashland, according to a statement from Chicago police. A male…
(Tribune) A Chicago police officer and two other people were killed in an attack at a South Side hospital Monday afternoon that sent medical personnel and police scrambling through halls, stairwells and even the nursery in search of victims and the shooter before he was found dead. Officer Samuel Jimenez, on the force less than…
(Sun Times Wire) Shootings across Chicago Monday left six people dead and two others wounded. They included one of the city’s deadliest shootings involving an officer, another police shooting involving a fugitive in Bronzeville, and three civilian shootings that left two dead and two wounded. A shooting at Mercy Hospital left four people dead, including…
(Sun Times Wire) One man was killed and another two were wounded in a 20-minute span between about 7:10 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in shootings on the South Side and West Side. The most recent shooting left one man dead and another wounded in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side, according…
(Tribune) Robert Torres, founder of the nonprofit Parents for Peace and Justice, said gun violence has become so commonplace in Chicago that it seems as if the public has become immune. “If the news is not moving you, if these mothers and families are not moving you and impacting you, we’re going to bring you…
(Sun Times Wire) A former Chicago police commander who was praised for reducing crime on the South Side is facing a charge that he stole $360,000 in Social Security funds over a period of 23 years. Kenneth Johnson, 54, was charged with stealing about $363,064 in funds from June 1994 to November 2017, according to…
