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Family members say shooting stole a bright future from 'happy-go-lucky'...
By ELIZABETH CZAPSKI Homicide Watch ChicagoOn a summer day during their sophomore year of high school, Kayla Taylor and her boyfriend, Stevie Jefferson, sat down to talk about their future.Stevie...
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Man found shot to death in alley in Austin identifed as 33-year-old Taurins Pope
A man found shot to death Saturday morning in an Austin neighborhood alley on the West Side has been identified as 33-year-old Taurins Pope.Officers responding to a shooting at 6:53 a.m. in the 100...
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Man found shot to death in AUburn Gresham identified as 25-year-old Ryan Ellis
A man found shot to death Sunday afternoon in the South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood has been identified as 25-year-old Ryan Ellis.Ellis was found with multiple gunshot wounds to the body in the...
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Tenisha Mallet killed, three others wounded when two gunmen get out of SUV...
A woman killed in a Saturday night shooting in the West Side Austin neighborhood that left three other people wounded has been identified as 21-year-old Tenisha Mallet.The four were outside about 8:30...
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23-year-old James Johnson shot to death inside store in South Shore
A South Side man was shot to death inside a store in the South Shore neighborhood Tuesday morning.Just before noon, someone walked up to James Johnson when he went into the store in the 2000 block of...
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Man killed in South Shore shooting that left second man wounded identified as...
A man was killed in a South Shore neighborhood shooting that left a second man injured Sunday afternoon has been identified as 45-year-old Steven C. Jackson.Jackson was standing in the 2400 block of...
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Just hours after her death, man charged with fatal shooting of 11-year-old...
By STEFANO ESPOSITO and ANDY GRIMM Chicago Sun-TimesTakiya Holmes | family photo Just hours after 11-year-old Takiya Holmes died Tuesday after being shot while sitting in a van Saturday evening in...
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18-year-old Malike Ellis shot to death while riding in vehicle in North Lawndale
Malike Ellis was fatally shot Tuesday morning in a vehicle in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.The 18-year-old was riding in a vehicle around 9:30 a.m. in the 4100 block of West 18th...
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2-year-old Lavontay White, 26-year-old Lazarec Collins die in what police...
By SAM CHARLES, ANDY GRIMM and JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-TimesPolice stand near a car in an alley between Kostner and Kenneth avenues while investigating a fatal shooting in North Lawndale. | Andy...
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WEEK IN REVIEW: At least 10 more killed in Chicago, including 2-month-old...
By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire It was another violent week in Chicago, with at least 10 people killed last week, including three in the West Austin neighborhood alone. The death toll included a...
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'Vivacious' 12-year-old Kanari Gentry-Bowers dies four days after being hit...
By ANDY GRIMM, SAM CHARLES and MATTHEW HENDRICKSON Chicago Sun-TimesRochetta Taylor, left, and Justin Bowess, right, father of 12-year-old Kanari Gentry-Bowers speaks outside Stroger Hospital where the...
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December death of Melvin Sims of Austin from injuries suffered in shooting 18...
The December death of Melvin Sims, a West Side man who was wounded in a shooting 18 years ago, has been ruled a homicide.Sims, 55, died at 2:20 a.m. Dec. 27, 2016 at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak...
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Man shot to death in Humboldt Park drive-by identified as 62-year-old Eddie...
A man shot to death on Valentine’s Day in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side has been identified as 62-year-old Eddie Wade of the Southwest Side.Wade was sitting in a parked vehicle about...
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27-year-old Brent Johnson killed in drive-by shooting in Marquette Park alley
Brent Johnson was shot and killed Wednesday night in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.Johnson, 27, was standing in an alley in the 3000 block of West Marquette about 8:45 p.m.,...
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Jorge Navarro Jr. fatally shot while driving his car on Lake Shore in Lincoln...
Jorge Navarro Jr. was shot to death early Wednesday while driving on Lake Shore Drive in the North Side Lincoln Park neighborhood.Authorities investigate a fatal shooting in the 2300 block of North...
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Filogonio Rivera-Camacho, Emmanuel Camacho and Julian Miller fatally shot in...
By JORDAN OWEN and MATTHEW HENDRICKSON Chicago Sun-Times WireFilogonio Rivera-Camacho, Emmanuel Camacho and Julian Miller were killed, and two other men were critically wounded Wednesday afternoon in...
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20-year-old Iveill Hudson was killed and a 60-year-old woman injured in...
Twenty-year-old Iveill Hudson was killed and a 60-year-old woman was wounded in a shooting Thursday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood.Hudson was standing on the corner about 1:45 p.m. in...
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Murder charge filed in October 2016 shooting death of Trasean Stokes in West...
A 19-year-old man is facing a murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting of Trasean Stokes last October in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.Delames Sullivan | Cook...
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Willie Cooks killed, second man wounded in shooting in Back of the Yards...
Willie Cooks was killed and another man wounded in a shooting early Saturday at a nightclub in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side, according to Chicago Police.Just before 3 a.m.,...
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John Gonzalez killed, two others men wounded, in shooting on block where he...
By SARA FREUND Chicago Sun-Times WireJohn Gonzalez was killed and two other men were wounded in a shooting early Saturday in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, and police say witnesses are not...
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