(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…
(Sun Times Wire) One person was killed and three others were wounded between about 12:45 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. Monday in shootings across the city. The day’s only fatal shooting happened about 9 p.m. in the South Side Gresham neighborhood, police said. Charles A. Betton, 40, was standing on the sidewalk about 9 p.m. in…
(Fox) Three people have been killed and 17 others wounded in Chicago gun violence since Friday evening. Much of the bloodshed reported this weekend unfolded Sunday, when at least 13 people were shot — one fatally. Two people were killed, and four others were wounded on Saturday. Meanwhile, the start of the weekend was markedly…
(Fox) Authorities say a police officer who was responding to a shooting at a suburban Chicago bar fatally shot an armed security guard who was working there. The Cook County sheriff’s office says officers responded shortly after 4 a.m. Sunday to a call of shots fired at Manny’s Blue Room in Robbins. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Sophia…
(Sun Times Wire) At least five shootings, one of them fatal, unfolded throughout the city on Thursday. The gun violence was reported from about 4 a.m. until 11 p.m. and left one person dead and four others wounded. The latest shooting was the homicide of a 33-year-old man in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on…
(Sun Times Wire) Two people were wounded by gunfire between about midnight and 10:30 p.m. Wednesday on the South Side. The most recent shooting happened at 10:37 p.m. when a man was seriously wounded by gunfire in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side. The 21-year-old was standing on a sidewalk in…
(Sun Times Wire) Three people, including a 16-year-old boy, were wounded by gunfire between about 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. Tuesday in shootings across Chicago. The most recent shooting left a 23-year-old man seriously wounded in the Archer Heights neighborhood on the Southwest Side. About 8:40 p.m., the man was walking in the 4800 block…
(Sun Times Wire) At least five people were wounded by citywide gun violence on Monday. The most recent of the five shootings reported within a 24-hour span happened at night in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side. A 28-year-old man was walking about 8:15 p.m. in the 3000 block of West Fullerton when…
(Sun Times Wire) Two people were killed and 13 others wounded in citywide gun violence over the weekend. Three people were wounded between 5 p.m. and midnight on Friday, and two people were killed and five others wounded on Saturday. Four nonfatal shootings were reported Sunday. One man was seriously wounded before 5 a.m. Monday…
(Fox) At least seven people were shot — one fatally — in citywide gun violence that began Thursday about 2 a.m. and concluded at 11:20 a.m. The sole gun homicide documented that day was a drive-by attack that killed one man and wounded another at night in the Little Village neighborhood on the West Side,…
(Sun Times Wire) A woman was killed and five others wounded Wednesday in a series of citywide shootings over 24 hours. The homicide was the result of a violent carjacking in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on the Northwest Side. About 9:20 p.m., Maria D. Coronel, 21, was a passenger in a parked vehicle in the…
(Sun Times Wire) A man was killed and seven others wounded Tuesday in Chicago gun violence over a 24-hour period. The homicide happened about 3:25 p.m. in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side, according to police. Two men were sitting in a vehicle at the intersection of 53rd Street and Ashland…
(Sun Times Wire) At least six people were wounded by gunfire on Monday in Chicago, following a period of heightened gun violence over Halloween weekend. From about 4:15 a.m. to 11:35 p.m., five shootings were reported — all nonfatal. The most recent gun violence happened late Monday in the Near West Side neighborhood. At 11:35…
(Sun Times Wire) At least 38 people were wounded, and five others were killed, including a teenage boy, in citywide shootings over the Halloween weekend. The weekend gun violence surpassed last year, when two were killed and 28 wounded in shootings over the same period of time, from 5 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday.…
(Sun Times Wire) Citywide gun violence on Thursday struck at least four people, including a restaurant owner from the northwest suburbs who died in the morning from a gunshot wound to the head. Peter Rim, 46, of South Barrington, was shot about 6:45 a.m. in the Northwest Side Belmont Gardens neighborhood, according to Chicago police…
(Sun Times Wire) At least 10 people have been wounded in citywide shootings since the start of the day Wednesday. The most recent shooting wounded a 32-year-old man in the South Side Bridgeport neighborhood. About 9:30 p.m. the man was walking in the 3100 block of South Morgan Street when he heard gunfire and realized…
(Sun Times Wire) Eight people were wounded by gunfire between about 12:10 a.m. and 9:20 p.m. Tuesday in shootings across Chicago. The most recent shooting left a man wounded in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side. The 29-year-old was sitting in a parked SUV about 9:25 p.m. in the 3100 block of West Taylor…
(Sun Times Wire) Eight people have been fatally shot and 17 others wounded in Chicago since 5 p.m. Friday. Seven people were shot Friday evening — two of them died from their wounds. On Saturday, three people were killed and four were wounded. Three men were shot when gunfire erupted about 3:40 p.m. Sunday in…
