(Sun Times Wire) The statement was read by Jacqueline Herrera, who serves as violence prevention director of the Little Village based community organization Enlace Chicago. Hundreds of white balloons were released moments later. Toledo was shot by a Chicago police officer at about 2 a.m. March 29 in an alley in the 2400 block of…
(Sun Times Wire) An 8-year-old girl has died after being shot in the head last week by stray gunfire while seated on a living room floor doing homework in East Chicago, Indiana. Timya Andrews died about 2 p.m. Wednesday at Comer Children’s Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy conducted Thursday…
(Fox) Chicago police announced Monday morning that a suspect is in custody in the shooting death of a 9-year-old boy who was playing on the Near North Side. CPD Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan said they are working with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office to file charges within the next two days. He credited…
(Sun Times Wire) A 9-year-old boy was killed in a shooting Friday near the former Cabrini-Green housing projects on the Near North Side, Chicago police said. About 6 p.m., the boy was in the 900 block of North Cambridge Avenue when he suffered a gunshot wound to the chest, police said. He was taken to…
(ABC) A 10-year-old girl was killed by a stray bullet Saturday inside a Logan Square home. The girl was inside an apartment about 9:40 p.m. in the 3500 block of West Dickens Avenue when the bullet came through a window and struck her in the head, Chicago police said. She was taken to Stroger Hospital,…
(ABC) A 1-year-old boy was killed and his mother was injured in a shooting in Englewood Saturday afternoon, Chicago police said. Police said the shooting occurred near Halsted and 60th around 2 p.m. Chicago police said a 22-year-old woman was driving home from the laundromat with her child when another vehicle pulled up and someone…
(Sun Times Wire) A girl who was shot in the head by a stray bullet Monday night in south suburban Harvey died Tuesday on her 12th birthday. Kentayvia Blackful was pronounced dead at 10:28 p.m. on Tuesday at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. She was shot…
(Fox) A 13-year-old boy was fatally shot Saturday afternoon when a gun was accidentally discharged in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side. Deon Williams and his teenage friend were playing with a gun about 3 p.m. in the 7300 block of South Aberdeen when it was fired, Chicago police and the Cook County medical…
(ABC) A 1-year-old boy is hospitalized in critical condition after being shot in the head on Chicago’s Far South Side Thursday night, and a reward has been offered to find the shooter. The shooting occurred at about 5:30 p.m. at 99th and Throop streets in the Washington Heights neighborhood. Police said the 1-year-old was in…
(Sun Times Wire) Eleven people were wounded by gunfire Monday across the city and an 11-year-old boy was found shot to death in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side. About 1 a.m., emergency crews found Jechon Anderson unresponsive with blunt force trauma to the head about on the floor of a home…
(NWI TIMES) A Washington Elementary School fifth-grader died Sunday after being shot in the head when a fight broke out Saturday in the city’s Harbor section. Authorities have identified the boy as 11-year-old David L. Anderson. School City of East Chicago Superintendent Paige McNulty said grief counselors were available at the school Monday morning to…
