(SUN TIMES WIRE) Fifteen people, including a 4-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl, were wounded within 11 hours in shootings Wednesday on the city’s South and West sides. The children were among three people shot Wednesday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood. The shooting happened about 4 p.m. in the 5500 block of West…
(Chicago Tribune) Moments after getting picked up from a summer camp in the Austin neighborhood Wednesday, 4-year-old Asante Glover III and his sister 6-year-old Keziah Shealy had hoped to find a quick snack before taking a nap, relatives said. When they left Columbus Park on the West Side around 4 p.m., the siblings spotted a…
A dispatcher for the Chicago Police Department shot an 18 year old woman during a traffic dispute Wednesday afternoon in the McKinley Park neighborhood on the South Side, according to authorities. The dispatcher, a 47-year-old woman, has been employed with the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications for 22 years, according to department spokeswoman…
(Sun Times Wire) Three men were killed and five other people were wounded in shootings Tuesday across Chicago. Most recently, a man was shot to death in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood on the South Side. The 28-year-old invited an acquaintance to his home about 10:50 p.m. in the 1600 block of West 18th Place,…
(Chicago Tribune) Three people were killed and eight others were injured in city shootings from Monday afternoon to Tuesday morning, police said. In the most recent homicide, a man between the ages of 25 and 30 suffered multiple gunshot wounds about 9:40 p.m. He was pronounced dead on the scene in a vacant parking lot…
(Chicago Tribune) After a string of shootings on her Englewood block within the past 13 months, Ana Mojica and her family feel unsure about what the violence means for the place they call home. They’ve invested time and money in their brick home, which has a spacious backyard where her children play soccer with their…
(Chicago Tribune) Eleven people were killed and 44 were wounded in weekend shootings from Friday afternoon to Monday morning, including an attack that left a 10-year-old boy dead and a police-involved shooting after police said a passenger in a traffic stop had refused to put down a gun. More than half of the victims were…
A man was shot while walking into Mount Sinai Hospital early Sunday in the Douglas Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side. The 31-year-old man was walking into the hospital at 3:36 a.m. in the 2700 block of West 15th Street when shots were fired, according to Chicago Police. The man was struck in the right…
(Chicago Tribune) As the sun rose over Chatham early Friday, three residents stood at the edge of the crime scene trying to figure out if they knew the person who had been shot to death inside a vehicle. “It’s a beautiful block,” Jermont Montgomery said. “Two or three in the morning, I would be OK.…
SUN TIMES MEDIA WIRE An 18 year old woman has been charged with shooting two teenagers last month at 31st Street Beach on the South Side. Tynisha Blissit faces two counts each of attempted murder and aggravated battery, all felonies, according to Chicago Police. She was ordered held Thursday on $2 million bond. At 6:48…
Three people were killed and eight were wounded, including in an attack downtown, in city shootings from Monday to Tuesday morning, police said. In the most recent homicide, a 50-year-old man was shot when he was standing in the parking lot of a gas station in the Marynook neighborhood, and an offender pushed him into…
(Chicago Tribune) Forty one people in Chicago were wounded and three were killed in a weekend that saw several multi victim shootings, an attack on a popular South Side beach and an officer involved shooting that fatally wounded a suspect who first shot at police. Year to date, 2016 recorded 2,113 shootings compared with 1,924…
(Chicago Tribune) One man was fatally shot during an argument on the South Side, and at least 15 others were wounded in separate attacks from Saturday morning to early Sunday. An argument late Saturday in the Englewood neighborhood left one man dead when it escalated to a shooting. Just before 11:20 p.m., a 27-year-old man…
(WLS) At least seven people were injured, including four Chicago police officers, after a shooting and crash on the West Side Saturday night. Police said three men were driving in the 4200-block of West Roosevelt Road in the North Lawndale neighborhood when another car pulled up and someone inside started shooting at the men at…
(Chicago Tribune) After a 15-year-old boy was grazed in the head in a shooting early Saturday, a man stood near the ambulance and suggested officials throw holy water on the Roseland block. “This block has death on it,” he said. “They need to put holy water on it.” The 15-year-old boy had been walking about…
(WLS) Neighbors in the Back of the Yard neighborhood woke up Saturday morning after the first campout to curb gun violence in the city. Several other events are planned in areas hardest hit by crime. The campout kicked off a summer-long program to curb violence in some of Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods. At about 5…
(SUN TIMES MEDIA WIRE) – Three people were killed and eight wounded in separate shootings on Thursday across Chicago, mostly on the South and West sides. Following a historically violent Fourth of July holiday weekend that ended with more than 100 people shot, the city is approaching 1,900 gunshot victims on the year, according to…
Thirteen people were killed and 87 others were wounded in shootings across Chicagoin a bloody Fourth of July weekend between Friday afternoon and Wednesday morning. Last year’s Independence Day weekend, which was one day shorter than this year’s, ended with 66 people shot, four of them fatally — a total that actually stoked cautious optimism…
At least six people were wounded in shootings on the South and West sides on Monday, police said. The attacks Monday bring to 57 the number of people shot during the extended holiday weekend. Seven of those shot have died, according to data compiled by the Tribune. In the most recent shooting, a 60-year-old man…
