5 Dead, 15 Wounded In Chicago Weekend Shootings
The most recent fatal shooting happened about 12:55 a.m. Monday in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South side.
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The most recent fatal shooting happened about 12:55 a.m. Monday in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South side.
Rory Watson, 57, faces a first-degree murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting of 56-year-old Beatrice Jones, according to Cook County prosecutors.
Riverside Police arrested a man who threatened to kill the Riverside Police Department police chief, an officer and a former sergeant.
It's been 10 years since an armed robber tied up six women in the store and shot them, leaving five of them dead, but the case remains unsolved.
Lawrence M. O'Keefe, 68, was charged with felony threatening a public official, according to Riverside police.
Juan Morales, 33, was charged Thursday with an additional felony count of armed robbery, according to Aurora police.
The woman was driving her gray 2011 Lexus north just after 2 p.m. on Sheridan Road near Davis Street when it was rear-ended by a black Acura, according to a statement from Evanston police.
Ten years after five women were brutally slain inside the Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, police have released a new image of the suspect and enhanced audio of a 911 call in hopes of finally solving the case.
Wednesday's spate of gun violence brought the total number of shooting victims in January to 195, and the total number of murders in January to 39.
A Boone County sheriff's deputy's split-second decision saved the lives of four people, including his own, when a passing car nearly ran them over Saturday night.
The most recent shooting happened at 11:20 p.m. in the South Side Gresham neighborhood, leaving one man dead and another wounded.
Six Chicago police officers were being questioned by federal investigators for allegedly stealing money and drugs from drug dealers, sources have confirmed to CBS Chicago.
No one in the home was injured, police said.
In each incident, two male suspects approached people as they were walking on the street or stopped in a vehicle, according to an alert from Chicago Police.
Ricky Hatchet, 25, bought the guns from an unlicensed individual in Bloomington on three separate occasions in 2015, according to the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois.
A Cook County judge has thrown out the convictions of two men who spent nearly 45 combined years in prison for the 1989 of a retired Chicago police sergeant's wife, based on DNA evidence and allegations of police torture.
Mario Scott, a convicted felon, has been charged with one count each of attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm.
The victim was found shot in a car in the parking lot outside the Berwyn Health Department, at 26th and Clarence, around midnight.
No one was in custody in either robbery Tuesday morning. Area Central detectives were investigating.
Alonzo Turner, 52, faces two counts of bank robbery in connection with the Aug. 2, 2017 robbery of a U.S. Bank branch at 5850 W. Belmont, and the robbery of a Bank of America branch at 7126 W. North Ave. two days later, according to the FBI.
In each incident, the burglars used a cement block or brick to break the front glass door or side window of the business, and then entered the business to steal property and money, Chicago Police said.
Armando Vargas-Angel, 36, was pulled over about 6:40 a.m. near the 33.8 mile marker on eastbound I-94 when Indiana State Police troopers stopped to check on him, Indiana State Police Lowell district said.
A 24-year old man has been arrested for a mall parking lot robbery from almost two-and-a-half years ago, thanks to DNA information and a timely traffic stop.
The weekend's latest fatal shooting happened Saturday morning in the South Side Morgan Park neighborhood.
Items including credit cards, checks, laptops, iPads and jewelry were stolen in the burglaries, police said.
