17-year-old Carlos Fitz killed, man wounded inside car in Logan Square drive-by
Seventeen-year-old Carlos R. Fitz was killed and a coworker wounded in a Logan Square neighborhood shooting early Friday on the Northwest Side.Crime scene tape marks off the car in which two men were...
View Article15-year-old Fenger High student Willie Woodus shot to death while walking...
Fenger High School honor student Willie Woodus was shot and killed Friday evening while walking home from school in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.Just after 5 p.m., the 15-year-old...
View Article15-year-old Clavonte Eubanks shot to death in park near his home in Jeffery...
Fifteen-year-old Clavonte Eubanks died after being shot early Saturday in a park the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the Far South Side where he lived, according to Chicago Police.A 15-year-old boy was...
View ArticleMan gets 33 years for decapitating Silvestre Diaz-Hernandez after being...
By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-TimesAlexis Valdez | Chicago Police A man who decapitated his aunt’s boyfriend, Silvestre Diaz-Hernandez, after being told to move out of her Northwest Side apartment has...
View ArticleGeovani Mexicano of Hometown killed, woman wounded in shooting during...
Geovani Mexicano was killed and a woman wounded in a shooting Sunday night in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood on the Southwest Side. The two were standing outside a parked vehicle about 9:30 p.m. in...
View ArticleGrayson Langdon, murdered in South Shore in 2015, named suspect in 2013...
Grayson Langdon, who was shot to death in the South Shore neighborhood last fall, was responsible for a fatal stabbing outside a Lil Wayne concert in Charlotte, N.C., in 2013, according to...
View Article$50K bond for man charged with punching Marques Gaines, who fell unconscious...
By ASHLEE REZIN Chicago Sun-Times WireMarcus Dante Moore | Hennepin County Sheriff's Dept. Bond was set at $50,000 Friday for a man arrested in Minneapolis last week and charged in connection with the...
View ArticleAlleged gang member ‘D.Rose’ gets 40 years for fatal shooting of 14-year-old...
By LUKE WILUSZ and JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times WireAhbir 'D.Rose' Sardin | Cook County Sheriff's Dept. A South Side man whose street name appeared in the lyrics of several Chicago rappers was...
View ArticleOmar Gunn sentenced to 40 years for chasing down and shooting Jaleel Pearson...
By JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times WireOmar Gunn | Cook County Sheriff's Dept. A man was sentenced to 40 years in prison Tuesday for chasing down and shooting 18-year-old Jaleel Pearson in the South...
View ArticlePerson of interest in custody after Walter Long Jr., who rapped as...
Police say a person of interest was being questioned after Walter Long Jr., a rapper who performed as dinnerwithjohn, was stabbed to death Wednesday afternoon near Metra tracks in the River West...
View ArticleDeath of Annette Harris, found lying floor of her Avalon Park home three...
The death of a 57-year-old Annette Harris in her South Side Avalon Park neighborhood home nearly three months ago has been ruled a homicide.A family member discovered Harris lying unresponsive in the...
View ArticleReckless homicide charge in death of Karonda Hill-Meyers, pedestrian killed...
By JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times WireJesse Gather | Cook County Sheriff's Dept. A woman fatally struck by an SUV last week while crossing a street in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood has been...
View ArticleWEEK IN REVIEW: Three teenage boys among 8 killed in Chicago as 2017 death...
By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times WireSun-Times file photo Three teenage boys were among 8 people were killed last week as the death toll from homicides in Chicago neared 60 just five weeks into the new...
View Article17-year-old Alvin Stoll shot to in alley in Jefferson Park drive-by
Seventeen-year-old Alvin Stoll was shot to death Thursday night in the Jefferson Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.About 9 p.m., Stoll was with someone else in an alley in the 5300 block of West...
View ArticlePair shot to death in Brighton Park home identified as Priscilla Gloria Reyes...
A man and woman who may have been shot during a Super Bowl party Sunday night in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side have been identified as Priscilla A. Gloria Reyes and Edwin Eliseco...
View ArticleAutopsy: 2-month-old Aliya Acosta of Humboldt Park died from 'multiple...
By LUKE WILUSZ Chicago Sun-Times WireAn autopsy found that 2-month-old Aliya Acosta, who died Thursday after spending the last three weeks in a hospital, was a child abuse victim and her death has been...
View ArticleProsecutors: Walter Long Jr., aka rapper dinnerwithjohn, fatally stabbed...
By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-TimesKevin Alexander | Chicago Police Prosecutors claim well-known Chicago rapper Walter Long Jr., who was stabbed to death in the Fulton Market District earlier this...
View Article$1M bond for man charged with fatal beating of his brother, Jerry Lee...
A man whose attorney said he was mentally unstable has been charged with the fatal beating of his brohter, 53-year-old man Jerry Lee Cummings, last fall in the Austin neighborhood on the West...
View ArticleKeenan Turner fatally shot while sitting on porch of home on block where he...
Keenan Turner was shot to death on an Austin neighborhood porch early Saturday on the West Side.Authorities investigate after a fatal shooting on an Austin porch early Saturday. | Network Video...
View ArticleLadarren Ball sentenced to 39 years for 2015 fatal shooting of Zika Urosevic...
By JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times WireLadarren Ball | Cook County Sheriff's Dept. A man has been sentenced to 39 years in prison for the fatal shooting of Zika Urosevic in the West Side Humboldt Park...
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