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Second man charged with fatal shooting of Michael Harrison captured after six...
By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-TimesA West Side man was ordered held without bond Thursday for allegedly shooting Michael Harrison to death and injuring another man because he thought they'd gone into...
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Jose Hernandez killed in second shooting within hours on same Back of the...
By REEMA AMIN Chicago Sun-Times WireJose Hernandez was killed in the same block he lived just after midnight Friday in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood.The 26-year-old Hernandez was...
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Grover Tate killed, woman injured in drive-by shooting in Washington Heights
Grover Tate was killed and a woman wounded in a shooting early Friday in the Washington Heights neighborhood on the South Side.The two were walking in the alley in the 9100 block of South Ashland when...
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Moses Van Pelt of Chicago Heights killed in shooting in Riverdale on Far...
Moses Van Pelt of south suburban Chicago Heights died Thursday night after being shot that same morning in the Riverdale neighborhood on the Far South Side.The shooting happened in the 13200 block of...
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Joseph Gutierrez fatally shot while riding bicycle in Little Village
Joseph Gutierrez was riding his bicycle in the Little Village neighborhood Thursday evening when a gunman on foot fatally shot him.About 6:25 p.m., the 20-year-old Gutierrez was riding his bike in the...
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Vonzell Banks fatally shot in the back near park named after slain teen...
By STEFANO ESPOSITO and ASHLEE REZIN Chicago Sun-Times17-year-old Vonzell Banks was gunned down Friday near a park named after slain King College Prep student Hadiya Pendleton—one of four killings in...
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7-year-old Amari Brown fatally shot while celebrating 4th of July in Humboldt...
By REEMA AMIN Chicago Sun-Times WireSeven-year-old Amari Brown spent the daytime on the Fourth of July at his Humboldt Park home with his mom’s side of the family, including his maternal grandmother,...
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Jeremy Spivey killed, woman and 17-year-old boy injured in shooting in Albany...
By REEMA AMIN Chicago Sun-Times WireJeremy Spivey was killed in a shooting that left a woman and a teenager wounded in the Northwest Side Albany Park neighborhood early Sunday.Spivey, 23, and the two...
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Missouri brothers John and Willie Hunter killed in Auburn Gresham shooting...
John and Willie Hunter, brothers from Missouri, died Sunday morning after shots were fired at an SUV in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.John Hunter, 25, and his 31-year-old brother...
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Anthony Strong fatally shot near his home in Calumet Heights
Anthony Strong was killed in a Sunday afternoon shooting in the Calumet Heights neighborhood.The 48-year-old Strong was shot in the right side of the chest about 4:55 p.m. in the 9200 block of South...
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Police superintendent: Bullet that killed Amari Brown intended for his father
By JON SEIDEL and MITCH DUDEK Chicago Sun-TimesThe bullet that fatally wounded 7-year-old Amari Brown on the Fourth of July was meant for his father, Chicago’s top cop said Sunday.Amari Brown Antonio...
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Dominic Fairley Jr. was sitting in a car in South Shore when he was fatally shot
Dominic Fairley Jr. was shot to death early Sunday in the South Shore neighborhood.The 28-year-old was sitting in his car in the 7700 block of South South Shore Drive a few minutes before 1 a.m. when...
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Edgar Colon killed, second man wounded in North Lawndale shooting
A Humboldt Park man killed in a double shooting last week in North Lawndale has been identified as 50-year-old Edgar Colon.About 9:50 p.m. on July 1, Colon and another man, 38, were standing on a...
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10 dead, 53 wounded in shootings over bloody Independence Day weekend
The Fourth of July weekend turned into an explosion of violence across Chicago, where shootings left 10 people dead — including a 7-year-old boy — and at least 53 others injured from Thursday evening...
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John Perry fatally struck by minivan during argument with woman in North...
The death of a John Perry, who was struck and killed by a minivan during an argument early Sunday in North Lawndale, has been ruled a homicide.About 5 a.m., the 27-year-old Perry and a 23-year-old...
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WEEK IN REVIEW: 16 people killed in Chicago violence, including 11 over...
By JARED LANDSMAN and TRISTAN SIMS Homicide Watch ChicagoSixteen people were killed throughout Chicago last week, 11 of them over a violent Independence Day weekend,when the victims included a...
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Prosecutor: Anthony Strong killed by longtime friend because he touched the...
By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-TimesA Calumet Heights man shot and killed his longtime friend Anthony Strong over the July Fourth weekend because the pal touched his Cadillac, Cook County prosecutors...
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16-year-old Abayomi Okanlawan killed, second teen wounded in South Chicago...
Abayomi Okanlawan was standing outside his South Chicago neighborhood home with another teenage boy on Monday evening when gunshots rang out, leaving the 16-year-old dead and the other teen...
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Joseph Gaithers dies hours after being shot in head in Chatham
Joseph Gaithers died about four hours after being shot in the head Wednesday afternoon in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.About 1:15 p.m., Gaithers, 35, was talking with someone in the 8000...
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Samson Pension-Smith killed in second fatal shooting in two days in South Shore
Samson Pension-Smith was shot and killed Tuesday morning in the South Shore neighborhood, just two blocks from where a 16-year-old boy was fatally shot the day before.Officers responded to a call of a...
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