(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…
A 19-year-old man has been charged in the shooting death of 11-year-old Takiya Holmes, police said Wednesday. Antwan C. Jones is facing first-degree murder charges in Takiya’s shooting, Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the Chicago Sun-Times. Takiya died Tuesday morning at Comer Children’s Hospital. She was sitting next to her 3-year-old brother in the…
Two children, including a 2-year-old toddler, died Tuesday of gunshot wounds as a third clung to life, a spate of almost unthinkable bloodshed that has shaken a city sadly accustomed to violence. The devastation stretched from a Lawndale alley to a Woodlawn parking lot and West Englewood street and left dozens of family members gathered…
A Violent Chicago shooting was caught on Facebook Live Tuesday. A 2-year-old boy and a 26-year-old man were killed and a pregnant woman was wounded when a gunman opened fire on their car in an alley of the 2300 block of South Kenneth Avenue in the North Lawndale Neighborhood. The two year old Boy has…
An 11-year-old girl, who was one of two pre-teen girls was shot in the head over the weekend, died Tuesday morning, according to Andrew Holmes, a relative and anti-violence activist. Takiya Holmes was shot around 7:40 p.m. Saturday, while sitting in her family’s minivan with her mother and younger brother in the 6500-block of South…
Kanari Bowers (left) and Takiya Holmes (right) (Family provided photos) Two girls, ages 11 and 12, were wounded in the head in separate shootings Saturday night, Chicago police said. The 11-year-old girl was sitting in the backseat of a blue minivan in the 6300-block of South King Drive in the Parkway Gardens neighborhood when shots…
An 11-year-old girl was in “very critical” condition after a shooting Saturday night on the South Side. Two other people were fatally shot and at least four more were wounded in separate attacks in the city. The child was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where she was listed in “very critical” condition, said Chicago Fire…
A woman is facing a child endangerment charge after her 5-year-old daughter accidentally shot herself Tuesday night in their home on Chicago’s West Side. Larrinita Starks, 22, was taken into custody and charged with misdemeanor child endangerment, police said Wednesday. Starks’ daughter was inside their home in the 3700-block of West Ferdinand Street in the…
A stray bullet hit a 6-year-old girl who was sitting on her front porch Tuesday afternoon in the West Englewood neighborhood, leaving her in critical condition. As Tacarra Morgan sat with her mom and grandmother on the front steps of her grandparents’ home in the 6000 block of South Paulina Street about 1 p.m., a…
