(Sun Times Wire) Four people were shot, one of them fatally, Thursday while they stood on a porch in Garfield…
(Sun Times Wire) Two people were killed and seven others wounded Thursday in shootings across the city, including a single…
(Sun Times Wire) A man has been sentenced to 6 years in prison for strapping a rifle to his chest…
(Sun Times Wire) Three people were wounded Wednesday in citywide shootings. In the day’s latest shooting, a 34-year-old man was…
(Sun Times Wire) Eight people were shot Tuesday in Chicago, including a man who was killed near a birthday party…
(WGN) Two people are dead from a Harvey shooting and later gun battle between occupants of two vehicles. The Chicago Tribune reports that police responded late Thursday to shots fired in Harvey and that the vehicles drove away when officers arrived. Shots were exchanged between both vehicles. A person was ejected from one of the…
(Sun Times Wire) A father from South Holland was fatally shot Wednesday on the streets of south suburban Calumet City. Police were called to gunfire about 9:55 p.m. in the 300 block of Oglesby Avenue and found 32-year-old Desmond Stewart lying unresponsive on the ground, Calumet City police said. Stewart had been shot multiple times,…
(Sun Times Wire) At least 12 people were shot Thursday in gun violence incidents across Chicago, including two men killed in a double shooting in Burnside. About 12:54 p.m., Jaquon M. Burke and Gerrod Gibson, both 24, were walking in the 600 block of East 92nd Place when a male approached them and fired shots,…
(Sun Times Wire) Eight people were shot and four killed Wednesday in incidents of gun violence across Chicago, including a man shot during a domestic incident in Roseland. Donnie Ray Hill was sitting in a vehicle about 9:20 p.m. in the 11300 block of South Edbrooke Avenue waiting to pick up a relative when a…
(Tribune) Some 20 cameras have been put into operation in the last several weeks along the Eisenhower Expressway on Chicago’s West Side in an attempt to crack down on drug trafficking — and the violence that comes with it — along what authorities have long called the “Heroin Highway.” The announcement — by public safety…
(ABC) At least 39 people have been shot – seven fatally – in Chicago so far over Memorial Day weekend, including five people shot in a single incident Sunday on the Near West Side. That shooting happened just after 6 a.m. in the 1300-block of West Hastings Street, Chicago police said, leaving two dead and…
(WGN) Three people were killed and four others injured during two shootings in the University Village neighborhood Sunday morning, in what police say are likely related incidents. “Now that summer’s kicking off, hot weather, people don’t know how to act,” said Tatiana Serrano, who said she’s visiting relatives in the area. Evidence markers litter the…
(Sun Times Wire) A concealed-carry holder shot and critically wounded someone who approached him with a gun Monday in Little Village on the Southwest Side. He was walking into an apartment alley about 4:15 p.m. when a man approached him in the 2500 block of South California Avenue and took out a handgun, Chicago police…
(Fox) A man released on bond for a weapons charge is now accused of killing a 15-year-old boy and wounding a woman in a drive-by shooting earlier this month on the Far South Side. Antawan Smith, 29, faces charges of first-degree murder, aggravated battery and being an armed habitual criminal in connection the May 14…
(Fox) Authorities arrested dozens of people overnight in a series of drug raids ahead of Memorial Day weekend. Chicago police Organized Crime officers arrested 32 people in the South Side raids, 21 of whom have previous felony convictions, according to a tweet from CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. Seven of them have prior convictions for gun-related…
(Sun Times Wire) Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday she’s “flooding the zone” — with 1,200 additional police officers, dozens of religious leaders and more than 100 youth programs — to prevent Memorial Day weekend from turning violent. “I want our kids to be safe in every community. That’s what success looks like. I know that…
(Fox) Three people were wounded by gunfire Thursday in Little Village on the Southwest Side. Two men and a woman were standing on the sidewalk about 10:40 p.m. in the 3500 block of West Cermak Road when someone approached the group on foot and fired shots, Chicago police said. A woman, 27, was hit in…
(Fox) A northern Illinois man accused of killing a 2-year-old son of his daughter’s friend and dumping the dismembered remains in a Chicago lagoon was acquitted Thursday of murder charges. Kamel Harris of Rockford was found not guilty of first-degree murder, dismemberment and concealment of a homicidal death by a Cook County jury, one day…
(Tribune) Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s new security chief co-authored a report two years ago suggesting that the solution to Chicago’s crime problem on the city’s South and West sides was this: Bring in the National Guard. Former U.S. Marshal James Smith, the private security contractor whom Lightfoot picked to head her security detail, wrote the eight-page…
(Fox) A Rockford man on trial in the death of a 2-year-old boy and the dumping of his dismembered remains in a Chicago lagoon took the witness stand and declared his innocence. Prosecutors haven’t said how Kyrian Knox died, but allege 44-year-old Kamel Harris killed the toddler before scattering the boy’s weighted-down remains in the…
(ABC) A man was fatally shot by Chicago police officers after a barricade situation that prompted a SWAT response Wednesday near the University of Chicago in Woodlawn on the South Side. A man called police about 10:15 a.m. to report that his son, who had bipolar disorder, was armed and distraught at a home in…
(Fox) Six people were injured Tuesday in shootings across Chicago, including one that took place near Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s home in Logan Square. About 1:30 a.m., a man was walking in the 3400 bock of West Schubert Avenue when four to five male juveniles came up to him at the mouth of an alley, Chicago…
(Sun Times Wire) As a series of storms moved across Chicago, at least 15 people were wounded —four of them fatally— in shootings within city limits over the weekend, including a 19-year-old man who was killed early Monday in West Town. Cortney Lamonte Foy was getting picked up about 1 a.m. in the first block…
(Sun Times Wire) Four people were shot Friday in Chicago within city limits, including a 25-year-old who was killed in South Shore. About 12:53 a.m., Devante Boldon was found dead with gunshot wounds to his back and head in the 7200 block of South Jeffery Boulevard, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office…
(Sun Times Wire) It is gruesome. It is grisly. It’s as bad as it gets. It’s a rare crime called fetal abduction and it still causes a highly respected former top Chicago member of the police brass, who asked to remain anonymous, to wince reading about the murder of nine-months-pregnant Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, whose body was…
(Sun Times Wire) Nine months pregnant with her second child, Marlen Ochoa-Lopez went to Clarisa Figueroa’s home last month to buy baby clothes, just as she had done at least once before, authorities said. But four hours later, Figueroa stood on a sidewalk and called 911, claiming she had given birth to a baby who…
(Sun Times Wire) Two weeks ago, Lamar Baker beat murder and attempted murder charges in a 2017 shooting that left one man dead and another wounded. On Thursday, the 20-year-old man described by Cook County prosecutors as an “enforcer” for the Latin Kings, was charged with the 2016 killing of a 37-year-old man in Little…
(ABC) Kendrick Woods traveled from Wisconsin to Chicago last weekend to surprise his mom for Mother’s Day. But hours before Woods got the chance to see her, he was gunned down in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. His sudden, violent death came as a shock to his younger brother, Patrick Woods. “He was everything that is…
(Sun Times Wire) At least six people were shot — two of them fatally — across Chicago on Thursday. A 41-year-old man was fatally struck by gunfire in Albany Park on the Northwest Side. Dennis Sackmaster was standing in an alley about 12:24 a.m. in the 4900 block of North Kedzie Avenue when someone in…
(Sun Times Wire) Federal murder charges have been filed against an alleged gang member who fatally shot a man and wounded another last year in Scottsdale on the Southwest Side. Luis “Snoop” Contreras, 39, an alleged member of the Latin Saints gang, is charged with a count of murder in aid of racketeering, a count…
(Sun Times Wire) Eight people were shot Wednesday in Chicago, including a man who was killed while riding a minibike through Roseland on the South Side. At 11:46 p.m., Terrance Pouncy, 26, was riding in the 10800 block of South Princeton Avenue when someone fired shots, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office…
(Sun Times Wire) Two people — including a 15-year-old boy — were killed and eight others were wounded Tuesday in shootings across Chicago. The boy was with a 23-year-old woman about 2:16 p.m. in the 200 block of West 113th Street in Roseland when someone opened fire from a vehicle, Chicago police said. The boy…
(Sun Times Wire) One person was killed and five others, including two teen boys, were wounded Monday in shootings across Chicago. The day’s single reported fatality happened just after 11 p.m. in Lawndale on the West Side. Christopher Williams, 23, was in an apartment bedroom with a female in the 3300 block of West Douglas…
(Tribune) A bouquet of purple and red silk flowers — positioned in the center of an unfinished wooden garage door — surrounds the smiling picture of Nicole Ridge, who was strangled nearly a year ago but still remembered in this alley on Chicago’s Far South Side. “RIP” is written in black marker on a white…
(ABC) Chicago police said persons of interest have been taken into custody and are being questioned in relation to a pregnant 19-year-old who has been missing from Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood for three weeks. Police announced the arrests Tuesday afternoon. The persons of interest were taken into custody in the 4100-block of West 77th Place on…
(Sun Times Wire) Good riddance — but not yet. That seemed to be the message Tuesday from dozens of community activists, who applaud the decision to destroy the Cook County Sheriff’s Office’s controversial gang database but not before some key questions are answered. “This rush to get rid of it is a way to protect…
(Sun Times Wire) A Westchester man is accused of fatally shooting his wife on Mother’s Day in the western suburb. Reginald Hooks, 55, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Leifshorn Hooks, who was found Sunday lying in a bathroom with multiple gunshot wounds, according to Westchester Police Chief Brian Stelter. Officers were…
(Sun Times Wire) Four men allegedly committed murder on Northwest Side in hopes of gaining status in a street gang, according to federal prosecutors. A federal indictment unsealed last week charges four alleged members of the Milwaukee Kings street gang who allegedly committed murder in aid of racketeering, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of…
Bloody Chicago Visual Podcast, this podcast is episode two it is about the history of serial killers in Chicago over the past 100 plus years. There are rumblings in Chicago about a serial killer roaming the streets of the city, the killer could possibly be responsible for 51 murders of young women across the Chicago over the past 18 years.
Bloody Chicago Visual Podcast, this podcast is episode two it is about the history of serial killers in Chicago over the past 100 plus years. There are rumblings in Chicago about a serial killer roaming the streets of the city, the killer could possibly be responsible for 51 murders of young women across the Chicago over the past 18 years.
