Man sentenced to probation for accidentally shooting Marsalis Homan to death...
By JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times WireJames Gonnigan | Cook County Sheriff's Dept. A West Side man who accidentally fatally shot his close friend and roommate, Marsalis Homan, in the head last year in...
View ArticleWeek in review: Killed in Chicago
At least 6 people were shot to death last week in Chicago.----NEED ID: A man was killed and a woman critically wounded in a shooting Thursday morning on the Eisenhower Expressway in the East Garfield...
View ArticleWEEK IN REVIEW: At least 19 more murders in Chicago push the year's homicide...
By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times WireAt least 19 people were killed in Chicago violence last week, pushing the year's homicide total to over the 550 mark, a number that could go up when pending autopsy...
View ArticlePolice release artist's sketch of severed head found in McKinley Park lagoon
Chicago police released sketches of a person whose head was found in a bag in the McKinley Park lagoon last week. | Chicago PoliceChicago Police on Wednesday released sketches of a person whose severed...
View ArticleArian J. Smith found shot to death in the kitchen of his home in Ashburn
Police called to a home in the Ashburn neighborhood Tuesday afternoon found the body of Arian J. Smith, who had been shot in his own kitchen.Police were called at 4:29 p.m. to the home in the 3800...
View ArticleAlvonta Pinex, aka Vonta West, dies three days after being shot during...
Alvonta Pinex of south suburban Riverdale died Tuesday evening, three days after he was shot during an argument in the Englewood neighborhood early Saturday. He was better known to friends as Vonta...
View ArticlePolice say Treamel Gray was shot to death while trying to rob two men in...
Chicago Police say Treamel Gray was fatally shot while trying to rob another man Wednesday night in the Bronzeville neighborhood, though friends do not believe that version of the incident.Police say a...
View ArticleJonathan Ortiz, who rapped as John Doe, killed in shooting on outbound...
The first of two fatal shootings in a six-hour span Thursday morning on the Eisenhower Expressway claimed the life of Jonathan Ortiz, an aspiring rapper who performed under the stage name John...
View ArticleDevon Almon killed in second fatal shooting on Eisenhower Expressway in just...
By JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times WireDevon Almon was shot and killed on the inbound Eisenhower Expressway late Thursday morning, the second fatal shooting in just over six hours on the West Side...
View ArticleJudge finds Erick Horton not guilty of 2014 slaying of Nigell Vazquez on...
By JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times WireErick Horton | Cook County Sheriff's Dept. A 36-year-old man has been released from the Cook County Jail after he was acquitted of the 2014 murder Nigell Vazquez in...
View ArticleByron Walker killed in drive-by shooting in Englewood
A man killed in a drive-by shooting in the Englewood neighborhood Thursday afternoon has been identified as Byron C. Walker.At 2:36 p.m., the 28-year-old Walker was walking outside in the 1100 block of...
View ArticleMedical examiner's office: Death of Omar Rangel in car in Ashburn...
The death of a 20-year-old Omar Rangel, found shot to death in a car last week in the Southwest Side Ashburn neighborhood, has now been classified as a suicide.Rangel was found unresponsive with...
View Article17-year-old Curie High student Naome Zuber killed by stray bullet while...
Seventeen-year-old Naome Zuber, a Curie High School student, was fatally shot while riding in a car in the Back of the Yards neighborhood early Saturday.Family members and police do not believe she was...
View Article$1 million bonds for man and teenager charged with fatal shooting of Jose...
By JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times WireMartin Bendik | Chicago Police A judge has ordered a 29-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy held on $1 million bonds after they were arrested last week and charged...
View ArticleGang member charged with slaying of Tracey Morgan, which prosecutors say led...
By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-TimesKhalil Yameen | Chicago Police A reputed member of a faction of the Gangster Disciples street gang, Khalil Yameen, has been charged in the deadly gang-related...
View ArticleMother: Slain Tykina Ali ‘would bring you up’
Tykina Ali / Family photoBy LOU FOGLIA Homicide Watch ChicagoTykina Ali loved to laugh, family members recall.And her mother, Tykia Watts, said the 20-year-old was persistent at getting others to laugh...
View ArticleAdrianna Mayes killed by errant bullet while holding baby daughter outside...
Adrianna Mayes, a young mother who was holding her infant child, was was killed when she was caught in the crossfire as a group of men exchanged gunfire Monday afternoon near her home in the Roseland...
View ArticleArtist/musician Corvus 'Chrono' Humphries killed after being caught in...
Budding young artist and musician Corvus "Chrono" Humphries was killed and another was wounded in a shooting Sunday morning outside a CTA Pink Line station on the Southwest Side.Officers responded to a...
View Article28-year-old Lazerrick Ratliff found shot in the back in Lawndale
A man who was fatally shot Sunday afternoon in the Lawndale neighborhood has been identified as 28-year-old Lazerrick Ratliff. Ratliff was shot in the back at 4:02 p.m. in the 2000 block of South...
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