WEEK IN REVIEW: 14 more people killed as city tops 1,000 shootings, 180...
By JEFF MAYES Homicide Watch Chicago Last year saw the most homicides in the city in more than two decades, and this year is on pace to equal or beat that number. It is not even the end of April and...
View ArticleAlleged shooter is second suspect charged with murder of Judge Raymond Myles...
By SAM CHARLES Chicago Sun-TimesEarl Wilson | Chicago Police The suspected killer of Cook County Judge Raymond Myles has been charged with murder, authorities announced Thursday afternoon.Earl Wilson,...
View Article19-year-old Taurean Tyler shot to death just three blocks from his home in...
A man killed in a West Englewood neighborhood shooting that also left a a 17-year-old boy wounded Monday night has been identified as a 19-year-old Taurean Dwayne Tyler, who lived less than three...
View ArticleAutopsy shows Diamond Turner, found dead in dumpster in Grand Crossing, was...
Diamond Turner, a 21-year-old woman whose body was found in a dumpster last month in the South Side Grand Crossing neighborhood, was beaten and asphyxiated, an autopsy has shown.Diamond Turner |...
View ArticleJohnta 'Da Drop' McComb shot to death by two men in West Garfield Park
Johnta "Da Drop" McComb was fatally shot Friday morning in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.About 11:15 a.m., two men with guns walked up to the 27-year-old in the 200 block of...
View Article15-year-old Xavier Soto died two days after being shot in the head in Belmont...
Fifteen-year-old Xavier Soto, who was shot along with another teen Thursday night in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on the Northwest Side, died of his injuries two days later.Soto was with a...
View ArticleMan shot to death near his South Chicago home identified as 36-year-old David...
David Haynes, Jr. was shot to death Thursday afternoon, just about a block away from his home in the South Chicago neighborhood.The 36-year-old Haynes was in the 8400 block of South Paxton about 5 p.m....
View ArticleMan fatally shot in Hermosa drive-by identified as 31-year-old Adrian John...
A man killed Friday night in a drive-by shooting in the Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side has been identified as 31-year-old Adrian John Nieves.At 11:04 p.m., Nieves was sitting in the back...
View ArticleEdgar Romero beaten, fatally shot during altercation with two passengers in...
Edgar Romero was killed in a shooting early Monday in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.The 38-year-old got out of a vehicle he was driving about 1:45 a.m. in the 2700 block of West 51st...
View ArticleMan fatally shot in Longwood Manor identified as 27-year-old Ulysses Pole III
A man killed in a shooting that also left another critically wounded Friday evening in the Longwood Manor neighborhood on the South Side has been identified as Ulysses Pole III.At 5:32 p.m., the men...
View ArticleD'Ante 'Newz' Swanson loved his family, making music and working to improve...
By ELIZABETH CZAPSKI Homicide Watch ChicagoLaDarryl Walls recalled his cousin, D'Ante J. Swanson, was his grandmother's "right-hand man." His three main activities were helping his grandmother, whom he...
View ArticleReckless homicide charge filed against driver for DUI crash that left...
By JACOB WITTICH and JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times WireA 27-year-old woman is facing reckless homicide charges after her passenger, James E. Pickett, was killed in a single-car crash late Sunday in the...
View ArticleWEEK IN REVIEW: Cops say shootings down across city, but 10 more deaths mean...
By JEFF MAYES Homicide Watch ChicagoChicago Police on Monday said the number of shootings in Chicago declined for the second month in a row in April, but that didn't stop another 10 people from dying...
View ArticleWEEK IN REVIEW: At least 2 people shot to death in Chicago
At least two people were shot to death in Chicago last week.----NEED ID: A person was shot to death Friday afternoon near a high school on the South Side. The victim, a male whose age was not...
View ArticlePolice: Three men followed Harry Davis Jr. into apartment in Bronzeville,...
Harry J. Davis Jr. was shot to death on Friday afternoon inside a Bronzeville apartment building on the South Side, ending one of the city's longest stretches without a homicide this year.About 4:45...
View Article16-year-old Jesus Escobar dies about 15 hours after being wounded in drive-by...
Sixteen-year-old Jesus Escobar of south suburban Blue Island died Sunday afternoon, about 15 hours after he was wounded in a shooting late Saturday in the Vittum Park neighborhood on the Southwest...
View ArticleProsecutor: Fatal shooting of cop's son Arshell Dennis III last year was case...
By FRNAK MAIN, ANDY GRIMM AND MATTHEW HENDRICKSON Chicago Sun-TimesAnthony M. Moore | Chicago Police A Cook County judge on Saturday denied bail for a teen accused of fatally shooting Arshell Dennis...
View ArticleJaime Arceo fatally shot, second man wounded while trying to stop armed...
When an armed robber entered his father's restaurant in the Northwest Side Montclare neighborhood restaurant early Sunday, Jaime Arceo and a second man tried to stop the crime.But the suspect opened...
View ArticleWeek in review: At least 2 dead in Chicago violence
At lest 2 people were shot to death last week in Chicago.----NEED ID: A 17-year-old boy was killed and a 22-year-old man wounded in a shooting Tuesday afternoon in the South Deering neighborhood on the...
View ArticleDaniel Cordova, who was shot to death in Brighton Park, had 'smile that would...
Daniel Cordova was shot to death early Sunday in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.About 4:30 a.m., officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 2500 block of West 46th...
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