(Sun Times Wire) 13-year-old boy was fatally shot Sunday in Vittum Park on the Southwest Side. He was identified as Xavier Quiroz by the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The boy was standing in the 5500 block of South Archer Avenue about 9 a.m., when he was shot multiple times, Chicago police said. The teen…
(Sun Times Wire) Corey Morgan was found guilty Friday of murdering 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in 2015. Morgan, an alleged gang member, stood trial alongside gunman Dwright Boone-Doty, who was found guilty of first-degree murder by another Cook County jury late Thursday night after just three hours of deliberations. Morgan’s jury, which was sequestered overnight, deliberated…
(Sun Times Wire) Dwright Boone-Doty, the gunman who killed 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee four years ago, was found guilty Thursday of first-degree murder. Jurors needed just three hours to reach their verdict. Charged with one of the most shocking murders in recent years, Boone-Doty faced damning evidence: His DNA was found on a basketball that lay…
(Sun Times Wire) With a few days to go before the expected start of the trial for two purported gang members accused of killing 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, a Cook County judge has locked up three witnesses whose testimony is crucial to prosecutors. And the judge has issued an arrest warrant out for a fourth. Judge…
(UPI) An Illinois man suspected of driving a getaway car in the shooting death of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in 2015 has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, prosecutors said. Kevin Edwards entered the plea Tuesday in exchange for 25 years in prison. Edwards admitted he drove the alleged gunman in the shooting — Dwight Boone-Doty —…
(ABC) The family of a 3-year-old boy who was shot in the face says they heard a gunshot while in another room and found their child with a weapon, according to police. Chicago police are continuing to investigate the shooting in a far South Side home at around 4:15 p.m. Sunday. The incident occurred at…
(Tribune) Two-year-old Julien Gonzalez left the birthday party and walked through the backyard, apparently following his father toward a fight that was getting louder in the alley. As he aproached the gate, somene yelled out, “Bust, bust, bust,” an order to a fellow gang member to open fire. The little boy stepped into the alley…
(Tribune) A smile spread slowly across the face of She’Vaughn O’Flynn as an old friend stepped from an SUV outside her home on the main drag of a small town in rural Michigan. Yolanda Brunt taught O’Flynn 15 years ago and had been her daughter’s school principal until the 12-year-old was shot to death in…
(ABC) A Chicago teenager who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting 14-year-old Endia Martin in a street fight in 2014 that escalated from a Facebook feud over a boy received the maximum juvenile sentence. The teen defendant, who turns 19 next month, struggled to hold back tears as she read a statement to the court before…
(ABC) A 12-year-old girl was fatally shot and a 36-year-old man was wounded Thursday night in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. About 11:20 p.m., the girl and the man were outside at a gathering in the 4200 block of West Wilcox Street, police said. The man heard shots and then realized he…
(Sun Times Wire) Authorities have identified a 9 year old boy who was killed Friday night in an East Side neighborhood shooting on the Far South Side, police said. The boy, Gustavo Garcia, was in an SUV with a 31-year-old man at 11:13 p.m., traveling west in the 3500 block of East 97th Street, Chicago…
A 4-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed himself early Thursday after finding a gun in his northwestern Indiana home while everyone else was asleep, his grandmother said. Garrion Glover Jr., who would have turned 5 next week, was pronounced dead at a hospital in East Chicago about 3 a.m., according to the Lake County Coroner’s…
A 26-year-old man has been charged in a shooting that killed two people, including a toddler, in the North Lawndale neighborhood this week. Chicago police said Saturday that Devon Swan has been charged with murder in the shooting that killed 2-year-old Lavontay White and 26-year-old Lazaric Collins in the 2300-block of South Kenneth Avenue last…
This is one of those VERY RARE cases where good comes out of a Horrific Tragedy. Just hours after she died in her mother’s arms, 11-year-old Takiya Holmes did something remarkable. She saved six lives, according to the girl’s grandmother, Patsy Holmes. The youngest is 7 months old. The oldest is 67. Seven of Takiya’s…
Everywhere he goes, Chicago community activist Andrew Holmes has his daughter with him. Tamara Sword, his 32-year-old daughter, was shot to death in 2015 while she sat in the passenger seat of a car parked near an Indianapolis nightclub. She was an innocent victim of a gun battle in the parking lot, police said. Two…
A 12-year-old girl who was shot in the head Saturday has died, her family confirms. Kanari Gentry-Bowers had been on life support at Stroger Hospital. She is the third child killed by gun violence in Chicago in 5 days. Kanari was in the playground at Henderson Elementary in west Englewood when police say someone started…
