Samuel WIlliams died about 10 hours after being shot in Hermosa on Sunday night
Twenty-three-year-old Samuel Williams died Monday, more than 10 hours after being shot on the block where he lived in the Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side.Officers responding to a call of...
View ArticleWEEK IN REVIEW: At least 16 people killed in Chicago violence
At least 15 people were shot to death in Chicago violence last week.----A northwest Indiana man died after he was shot multiple times Saturday night in the Gresham neighborhood. Taiwan Fox, 18, was...
View Article16-year-old Jaylen Howard shot to death in Humboldt Park
Sixteen-year-old boy Jaylen Howard died after being shot multiple times Monday afternoon in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.The shooting happened about 4:45 p.m. in the 1200 block of North Pulaski,...
View Article17-year-old charged with fatal shooting of Alexander Townsend after witness...
By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-TimesAlexander Townsend | Facebook A 17-year-old boy has been charged as an adult in the fatal drive-by shooting of Alexander Townsend after the surviving 16-year-old...
View ArticleMan gets 15 years in prison for 2013 drive-by shooting that killed...
By JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times WirePhillip Boyd | Cook County Sheriff's Dept. A man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in the fatal drive-by shooting of Tyrone Hart in the South...
View ArticleProsecutors: Jacob Shelton fatally stabbed Lucius Delaney as the two argued...
By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-TimesJacob Shelton | Chicago Police A man was ordered held on $2 million bail Tuesday for allegedly stabbing Lucius Delaney to death in the Woodlawn apartment where they...
View ArticleMan charged with killing romantic rival Timothy Lawrence, then burning down...
By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-TimesWillie Bell | Chicago Police A Morgan Park man who dressed up as a meter inspector and then went to the home of romantic rival Timothy D. Lawrence and shot him to...
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At least 15 people were shot to death in Chicago violence last week.----A northwest Indiana man died after he was shot multiple times Saturday night in the Gresham neighborhood. Taiwan Fox, 18, was...
View ArticleTramell Williams dies after being found with multiple gunshot wounds on...
Tramell Williams was fatally shot on a sidewalk in the Sheridan Park neighborhood on the North Side Wednesday afternoon.Officers responding to a call of shots fired about 3:40 p.m. in the 4400 block of...
View ArticleLamar Watson stabbed to death by someone he knew during fight inside North...
Police say Lamar Watson knew the person who stabbed him to death Tuesday morning during a domestic fight in the North Lawndale neighborhood, but that person is not in custody.Watson, 39, was stabbed...
View ArticleAuthorities say 84-year-old Loretta Purcell was stabbed to death by her son,...
More than five hours after a SWAT unit surrounded an apartment building in West Town on Tuesday night, the body of Loretta A. Purcell was found inside the building she owned.Authorities say the...
View ArticleWEEK IN REVIEW: At least 15 killed, including woman shot by cousin, man...
By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 15 died in Chicago violence last week, including a woman shot to death by her cousin as the two women argued over the Far South Side apartment they shared...
View ArticleDeath of woman found dead in August in Roseland was homicide, but authorities...
By JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times WireThe death of a woman found more than two months ago in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side has been ruled a homicide, though authorities still don't...
View ArticleKhan Butler dies one day after being shot in the head while riding in van in...
Khan Butler, who was shot Saturday night in the South Chicago neighborhood, died later the next day.Butler, 31, was a passenger in a van traveling the 8200 block of South Houston about 8:35 p.m....
View ArticleDeAndre Walton was back in Chicago to attend funeral, visit friends when he...
DeAndre Walton was shot to death Thursday evening in the Homan Square neighborhood on the West Side.About 6:40 p.m., someone walked up to the 41-year-old Walton in the 3500 block of West Polk and...
View Article17-year-old boy charged as adult with gang-related murder of Mahdi Herring in...
By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-TimesMahdi Herring | Facebook A 17-year-old boy was ordered held without bond Thursday for a gang-related shooting that left 19-year-old Mahdi Herring dead and two others...
View ArticleDrug-abusing mother says she fatally stabbed 5-month-old son Isaac Bolanos so...
By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-TimesKimberlynn Bolanos | Cook County Sheriff's Dept. A young mother was sentenced to 38 years in prison Wednesday after she pleaded guilty but mentally ill in the...
View ArticlePolice believe murders of Lawrence Washington and Phillip Lewis, hours apart...
Chicago Police investigate a homicide in the 1000 block of North Willard Court early Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Chicago Police believe the fatal shootings of Phillip Lewis and...
View ArticleMartell Turner shot to death while sitting in car a block from his Auburn...
Martell Turner was shot to death while sitting in a car early Saturday about a block from his home in the South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood.At 12:04 a.m., the 25-yar-old Turner was sitting in a...
View ArticleHernando Caster dies after being shot multiple times in Austin
Hernando Lamont Caster was shot to death in the Austin neighborhood Friday night on the West Side.The 38-year-old Caster was on a sidewalk in the 4900 block of West Huron about 9 p.m. when two gunmen...
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