Kenneth Weaver fatally shot during argument following traffic crash in Austin
An argument after a traffic crash Saturday afternoon in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side led to the fatal shooting of Kenneth Weaver, according to authorities.The 22-year-old Weaver was driving...
View ArticleJohn Warship found with gunshot wounds early New Year's Day two blocks from...
John Warship was shot to death early on New Year's Day in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side, Chicago Police said.At 5:53 a.m. Sunday, officers responded to a call of a person down in...
View ArticleMaurice Delaney and second man killed in shootout inside Uptown business are...
A shootout Sunday morning in a North Side Uptown neighborhood business left Maurice Delaney and Ali Mohamed dead, the first reported homicides of 2017 in Chicago, authorities said.The men were shooting...
View ArticleJose Nieves fatally shot by off-duty police officer during 'altercation' in...
By SAM CHARLES Chicago Sun-TimesChicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson speaks to reporters after an off-duty officer shot and killed a man in the Hermosa neighborhood Monday morning. | Sam...
View ArticleMan shot to death on block where he lived in Washington Park identified as...
A man who was fatally shot Wednesday night on the block where he lived in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side has been identified as Matthew L. Herring.Herring, 32, was in front of a...
View ArticlePolice say 19-year-old Andre Lacaze was fatally shot by a man he tried to rob...
Authorities say that Andre D. Lacaze was fatally shot by a man he was trying to rob in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side on Friday afternoon. The 23-year-old man was walking in the 8200 block...
View Article15-year-old shot to death in Gresham identified as Gregory Livingston III
A 15-year-old boy who was shot to death Friday night in the South Side Gresham neighborhood has been identified as Gregory Livingston III. Officers responded to a report of shots fired at 9:40 p.m. and...
View Article23-year-old Simmieon McGruder killed, second man wounded in Homan Square...
Simmieon McGruder was killed and another man was critically wounded in a Homan Square neighborhood shooting Tuesday night on the West Side.Chicago Police investigate a shooting Tuesday night in the...
View ArticleTeens Malik McNeese and Stevie Jefferson shot to death in East Garfield Park...
Two teenage boys--Malik McNeese and Stevie Jefferson were shot to death outside a home in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side Tuesday afternoon, and a stray bullet also injured a woman...
View ArticleMan charged with October fatal shootings of Chiquita Ford and Brian Fields...
By ASHLEE REZIN Chicago Sun-Times WireLorenzo Parish | Chicago Police A man has been charged with fatally shooting Chiquita Ford and Brian Fields last year in a Back of the Yards neighborhood gas...
View ArticleWEEK IN REVIEW: 2016 closes with at least 780 homicides in Chicago, and three...
By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times WireChicago Sun-Times file photo The calendar turned from 2016 to 2017, and the temperatures took a downward spike, but nothing seemed to slow the pace of the killings...
View ArticleDante Swanson shot to death while sitting in his car in front of church in...
Dante J. Swanson was shot to death late Thursday while sitting in his car after getting off work in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side.Authorities investigate after a man was fatally shot...
View ArticleChicago Tech Academy employee Jason 'Jay' Goodfriend found shot to death in...
Chicago Tech Academy High School employee Jason E. Goodfriend was found shot to death in a vehicle Saturday morning in the University Village neighborhood on the Near West Side. The 31-year-old, known...
View Article26-year-old Deontae Nichols found shot to death on street in Hermosa
Deontae T. Nichols was found with fatal gunshot wounds Monday evening in the Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side.Police responded to a call of a person shot at 7:44 p.m. and found the...
View ArticleMan who killed girlfriend in 1989 accused of killing Sylvia Brice, his new...
By MITCH DUDEK Chicago Sun-TimesDouglas Askew | Chicago Police The murder cases are eerily similar. In 1989 Douglas Askew killed his pregnant girlfriend. He shot her in the forehead and the back of her...
View ArticleWeek in review: Killed in Chicago
At least 8 people was killed in Chicago violence this week.----A 31-year-old man was found shot to death Saturday morning in the University Village neighborhood. Jason E. Goodfriend was found when...
View ArticleMan killed when gunman opens fire on vehicle in West Garfield Park identified...
A man killed in a shooting that left another man wounded Monday morning in the West Garfield Park neighborhood has been identified as Brandon H. Jones.Three men were in a vehicle heading east in the...
View ArticleMan charged with fatal September shooting of Sergio Zaragoza in Hermosa
By MATTHEW HENDRICKSON Chicago Sun-Times WireTony T. Browley | Chicago Police A Humboldt Park man has been charged with fatally shooting Sergio Zaragoza last year in the Hermosa neighborhood on the...
View ArticleWEEK IN REVIEW: At least 8 die from violence in Chicago, including two...
By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least eight people were killed in Chicago violence last week, including two brothers and a pair of teenage boys, all of whom died after a pair of shootings on...
View ArticleDavid Gonzalez killed, four men wounded in what alderman calls 'ambush' with...
By SAM CHARLES and MITCHELL ARMENTROUT Chicago Sun-Times WireAld. Raymond Lopez (left) and community activist Andrew Holmes address the media Wednesday evening near the scene of a mass shooting in...
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