(Fox) Three people were wounded by gunfire Thursday in Little Village on the Southwest Side. Two men and a woman were standing on the sidewalk about 10:40 p.m. in the 3500 block of West Cermak Road when someone approached the group on foot and fired shots, Chicago police said. A woman, 27, was hit in…
(Tribune) Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s new security chief co-authored a report two years ago suggesting that the solution to Chicago’s crime problem on the city’s South and West sides was this: Bring in the National Guard. Former U.S. Marshal James Smith, the private security contractor whom Lightfoot picked to head her security detail, wrote the eight-page…
(Fox) Six people were injured Tuesday in shootings across Chicago, including one that took place near Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s home in Logan Square. About 1:30 a.m., a man was walking in the 3400 bock of West Schubert Avenue when four to five male juveniles came up to him at the mouth of an alley, Chicago…
(Sun Times Wire) As a series of storms moved across Chicago, at least 15 people were wounded —four of them fatally— in shootings within city limits over the weekend, including a 19-year-old man who was killed early Monday in West Town. Cortney Lamonte Foy was getting picked up about 1 a.m. in the first block…
(Sun Times Wire) Four people were shot Friday in Chicago within city limits, including a 25-year-old who was killed in South Shore. About 12:53 a.m., Devante Boldon was found dead with gunshot wounds to his back and head in the 7200 block of South Jeffery Boulevard, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office…
(Sun Times Wire) It is gruesome. It is grisly. It’s as bad as it gets. It’s a rare crime called fetal abduction and it still causes a highly respected former top Chicago member of the police brass, who asked to remain anonymous, to wince reading about the murder of nine-months-pregnant Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, whose body was…
(Sun Times Wire) Nine months pregnant with her second child, Marlen Ochoa-Lopez went to Clarisa Figueroa’s home last month to buy baby clothes, just as she had done at least once before, authorities said. But four hours later, Figueroa stood on a sidewalk and called 911, claiming she had given birth to a baby who…
(Sun Times Wire) Two weeks ago, Lamar Baker beat murder and attempted murder charges in a 2017 shooting that left one man dead and another wounded. On Thursday, the 20-year-old man described by Cook County prosecutors as an “enforcer” for the Latin Kings, was charged with the 2016 killing of a 37-year-old man in Little…
(ABC) Kendrick Woods traveled from Wisconsin to Chicago last weekend to surprise his mom for Mother’s Day. But hours before Woods got the chance to see her, he was gunned down in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. His sudden, violent death came as a shock to his younger brother, Patrick Woods. “He was everything that is…
(Sun Times Wire) At least six people were shot — two of them fatally — across Chicago on Thursday. A 41-year-old man was fatally struck by gunfire in Albany Park on the Northwest Side. Dennis Sackmaster was standing in an alley about 12:24 a.m. in the 4900 block of North Kedzie Avenue when someone in…
(Sun Times Wire) Eight people were shot Wednesday in Chicago, including a man who was killed while riding a minibike through Roseland on the South Side. At 11:46 p.m., Terrance Pouncy, 26, was riding in the 10800 block of South Princeton Avenue when someone fired shots, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office…
(Sun Times Wire) Two people — including a 15-year-old boy — were killed and eight others were wounded Tuesday in shootings across Chicago. The boy was with a 23-year-old woman about 2:16 p.m. in the 200 block of West 113th Street in Roseland when someone opened fire from a vehicle, Chicago police said. The boy…
(Sun Times Wire) One person was killed and five others, including two teen boys, were wounded Monday in shootings across Chicago. The day’s single reported fatality happened just after 11 p.m. in Lawndale on the West Side. Christopher Williams, 23, was in an apartment bedroom with a female in the 3300 block of West Douglas…
(Sun Times Wire) At least four people were shot Thursday across Chicago, including a 25-year-old man who was killed in a home in Englewood on the South Side. About 3 a.m., Andrew Whitaker was in the living room of a residence in the 6400 block of South Laflin Street when someone unleashed gunfire through the…
(WGN) Chicago police say one of its officers was stabbed in the neck and left arm while making an arrest. Police say the 27-year-old officer is hospitalized in good condition following the stabbing Friday morning on the city’s Far South Side. Police say the 42-year-old man who stabbed the officer is in custody and charges…
(Sun Times Wire) Six people were shot Wednesday in gun violence across Chicago, including a man fatally wounded in Lawndale on the West Side. Tony Robinson, 44, was in the 3900 block of West Arthington Street about 9 p.m. when someone fired shots, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He was…
