1 Killed, 22 Wounded In Weekend Shootings Across Chicago
The weekend's only fatal shooting happened Saturday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
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The weekend's only fatal shooting happened Saturday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
Virginia Cousin, who has mild dementia, may not be able to find her way home, Chicago Police said in a missing person alert.
The end of the day marked more than 109 hours without a reported homicide in the city, the longest such stretch so far this year.
Most recently, a man was shot to death Sunday afternoon in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.
The five latest fatal shootings happened in a two-hour spate of South Side gunfire Wednesday night.
John Campbell, who recently had a stroke and walks with a cane, was last seen at 5 p.m. and has been reported missing from the 500 block of North Leclaire Avenue, according to a missing person alert from Chicago Police.
The latest homicide happened Monday night in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood on the Far South Side, where officers responding to a call of shots fired at 8:14 p.m. in the 900 block of East 132nd Street found a man in his 20s in a field with gunshot wounds across his chest and torso.
SWAT team members were called about 10:45 p.m. Monday to the 1100 block of North Waller, where the male was threatening suicide, according to Chicago Police.
The latest killing happened Saturday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
The day's latest slaying happened about 2:40 p.m. in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
The weekend's latest slaying happened Sunday afternoon in the South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
The weekend's latest slaying happened Sunday afternoon in the South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
Police are warning residents about a series of carjackings reported over the past month in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
A man was shot dead on an Austin neighborhood porch early Saturday on the West Side, according to Chicago Police.
A 24-year-old man was shot and seriously wounded early Saturday inside an Austin neighborhood apartment on the West Side.
At 3:38 p.m., a construction worker called 911 and reported that he had found the body of an adult lying in the mud in the 8000 block of South Route 31, according to Lake in the Hills police.
Most recently, a 28-year-old man was shot in the leg in an East Garfield Park drive-by shooting about 9:15 p.m. on the West Side.
The encounter inspired the officers to start a clothing drive at their West Side police station.
The day's latest shooting happened about 10:40 p.m. in the Homan Square neighborhood on the West Side.
Marcus Cameron, 22, was found about 7:40 p.m. with a gunshot wound to the head in the 4500 block of South Prairie in the Bronzeville neighborhood, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Lawrence Johnson, 69, was last contacted about 6 p.m. and is reported missing from the area of Madison Street and Lorel Avenue, according to an endangered missing person alert from Chicago Police.
The latest shooting happened about 10:30 p.m. on the Far South Side, where someone in a passing black car shot a 16-year-old boy in the abdomen in the 400 block of East 133rd Street, police said.
The 40-year-old was found lying on the ground at 12:02 a.m. in the 1600 block of North Mayfield, according to Chicago Police.
The slaying happened about 7:45 p.m. in the Cottage Grove Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side, where 21-year-old David Carroll Jr. suffered a gunshot wound to the right side of his body in the 9700 block of South Woodlawn, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Police said a 16-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl were crossing the street near Lorel and Chicago avenues around 7:30 p.m., when a silver van headed south on Lorel struck them and kept going.
