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Bruce Wright fatally shot riding bike in Humboldt Park area
Bruce Wright was shot to death while riding a bicycle in the Humboldt Park neighborhood late Tuesday.Wright, 23, was riding the bike in the 900 block of North Hamlin Avenue when a van pulled up and...
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Friend: Marcel Pearson 'just wanted to move out of the hood'
Marcel Pearson / Photo from TwitterBY KALEY FOWLER Homicide Watch ChicagoMarcel Pearson was fatally shot late Tuesday near his Washington Heights area home just days before his college...
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Chicago Reader analysis: Homicide just one of many killers plaguing poor...
Photo by Jessica KoscielniakBY STEVE BOGIRAChicago ReaderChicago's homicide rate has drawn headlines this year, locally and nationally, and not without reason. Through July, 308 people had been slain...
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Debra Escobedo dies a month after Little Village shooting
Debra Escobedo / Photo from DNAInfo.com/chicagoA Bridgeport woman died Monday, more than a month after she was shot in the Little Village neighborhood.Debra Escobedo, 49, was shot about 3 a.m. June 1...
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Lincoln Park beating death of Jacob Klepacz now ruled a homicide
Jacob Klepacz / Photo from FacebookThe death of a man found beaten in the Lincoln Park neighborhood in April has been ruled a homicide.Jacob Klepacz, 32, was found with head trauma in the 1500 block of...
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Friend: Slain teen Michael Patton 'wouldn't want us crying'
Michael Patton / Photo from FacebookBY KALEY FOWLER Homicide Watch ChicagoMichael "Yung Stacks" Patton decided in junior high that he wanted to be a rapper and devoted his life to music.Michael, 17,...
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Prosecutors: Michael Johnson handed a revolver to man who fatally shot Donald...
BY JORDAN OWEN Sun-Times MediaMichael Johnson allegedly handed another man a revolver before the fatal shooting of Donald Ray Sunday evening on the West Side.Johnson, 27, was charged with murder,...
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Prosecutors: Terrance McNeal told cops Martel Halbert shot him in the Austin...
Martel Halbert / Photo from Chicago PoliceBY JORDAN OWEN Sun-Times MediaBefore dying in surgery, Terrance McNeal told police that Martel “Party” Halbert had shot him, prosecutors said.Halbert, 33, was...
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Murder victims had been shot – twice – before
EDITOR'S NOTE: Chicago Sun-Times reporter Frank Main tells the story of Bruce Wright and Brian Weekly, two men shot dead in Chicago who had been shooting victims before.The first two shootings didn’t...
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Damien Bryant killed in Austin shooting
Damien Bryant was killed in possible drive-by shooting in the Austin neighborhood Friday night that left three other people wounded.Bryant, 32, was shot in the head just after 8 p.m. in the 5200 block...
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Adarrius Thompson fatally shot during domestic dispute in Chicago Lawn
Adarrius Thompson was killed in a domestic-related shooting that left his 50-year-old mother seriously injured early Saturday in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood.A 47-year-old man got into an argument...
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William Lewis fatally shot on North Side
William Lewis was shot to death Saturday afternoon on the North Side.Lewis, 28, was standing in the 1300 block of West Devon Avenue when a gunman walked up and shot him in the back about 3:20 p.m....
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WEEK IN REVIEW: 12 dead from Chicago shootings
BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago EditorTwelve people died last week from shootings throughout Chicago.Three of the shootings happened early last Monday at the end of a bloody Independence Day...
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Photographer Wil Lewis killed in Rogers Park shooting
William Lewis / Submitted photoBY MITCH DUDEK Chicago Sun-TimesWil Lewis escaped poverty in Guatemala when he was adopted at age 7. Loving parents raised him in Wisconsin, where he found his two...
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Prosecutors: Eric Vaughn handed gun to person who fatally shot William Lewis...
Eric Vaughn / Photo from Chicago PoliceBY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago EditorEric Vaughn was sentenced to seven years in prison for a 2004 attempted murder conviction. Now he is being held...
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Comment of the Day: "Laquisha was the sweetest person and a true friend"
LaQuisha Hickman, 37, was killed last month in a double-murder in the Ashburn community. Reader Traci Hill posted this about her:Laquisha was the sweetest person and a true friend. She loved her...
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Family: Slain Jaynisha Schaffer was studying to be an architect
BY EMILY BROSIOUS AND KALEY FOWLER Homicide Watch ChicagoInstead of celebrating Jaynisha Schaffer’s 20th birthday, her friends and family were planning a funeral after she was fatally shot four days...
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Lawndale Nutall, 56, shot dead in West Englewood
Lawndale Nutall was fatally shot early Monday in the West Englewood neighborhood.Nutall, 56, was shot in the 1500 block of West 72nd Street about 12:45 a.m., authorities said. Officers responding to a...
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Adam Lara, 16, fatally shot after argument at Hermosa restaurant
Scene where Adam Lara was shot / Photo by Alex WroblewskiA 16-year-old boy was killed and his father critically injured after gunfire erupted following an argument in a Hermosa neighborhood restaurant...
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