5 Killed, 20 Wounded In Christmas Weekend Shootings Across Chicago
The weekend's latest fatal shooting happened at 12:14 a.m. Christmas Day in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.
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The weekend's latest fatal shooting happened at 12:14 a.m. Christmas Day in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.
Three men were killed and at least 21 other people have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday afternoon, marking a violent Christmas holiday weekend.
The carjacking came on the heels of a series of purse snatchings in the Chinatown area.
Juan Morales, 33, of Aurora was charged Dec. 13 with armed violence, residential burglary and burglary in Will County, records show.
A man was found shot to death shortly before noon in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
For nearly two decades, Gabriel Solache and Arturo DeLeon-Reyes had maintained that they were beaten into giving confessions that were the only evidence against them in the 1998 murder of Jacinta and Mariano Soto.
"That's a billion-dollar industry. Certainly they can spend a little money to ensure that these types of things don't happen," Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said. "Quite frankly they haven't been very friendly to law enforcement to prevent these things."
Surveillance video from the victims' neighbors shows the suspects unsuccessfully trying to get into other homes.
Knowing he would soon be sentenced for a brazen $23 million scam involving scores of phony pieces of sports memorabilia, an Arkansas con man looked at his oldest son in court and said, "I screwed it up."
In each incident, someone has forcibly entered a house or apartment and taken money, electronics and other items from within, according to a community alert from Chicago Police.
The day's latest shooting happened about 8:25 p.m. in the Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side.
A 5-year-old boy became the victim of gunfire for the second time in his life Tuesday night, when he accidentally shot himself in the hand.
After an appeals court threw out his original 100-year prison term, the man who admitted to killing a Julian High School honor student on a CTA bus in 2007 was set to make his case for a more lenient sentence on Wednesday.
The non-takeover robbery happened at 1:19 p.m. at a Fifth Third Bank branch at 704 Roosevelt Rd. in Glen Ellyn, according to the FBI.
U.S. Marshals conducted a traffic stop Monday evening in downstate Mount Vernon and located 25-year-old Ryan Christian Turner hiding in the back seat of a vehicle,
Carlos Hendricks, 18, has been charged with one felony count each of attempted vehicular hijacking and attempted armed robbery, as well as one misdemeanor count of aggravated assault.
Andrew Lee Hallbrooks, 61, was pulled over for driving without wearing a seat belt about 5:15 p.m. Friday in the 3600 block of Harlem Avenue in Riverside, according to a statement from Riverside police.
The day's latest shooting happened at 10:48 p.m. in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
Bryan P. Charnot, of Chicago, faces a federal wire fraud charge, court records show. His arraignment at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse has been set for Jan. 10.
Lizandra Cosme, of the Humboldt Park neighborhood, has been charged with five counts of aggravated battery to a child.
The most recent fatal shooting took the life of a 29-year-old man on the Northwest Side.
Prosecutors laid it out in court on Sunday: A Lincoln Park woman's night out turned into a nightmare that lasted multiple days in mid-July.
The robbers, one of whom was armed with a gun, broke into an apartment about 11 p.m. in the 5500 block of North Chester and pistol-whipped two people, demanding their money, according to Chicago Police.
A man and woman were killed and another man was critically wounded in a shooting Saturday night on the Southwest Side.
Police Supt. Eddie Johnson noted shootings and murders both have dropped from 2016, which saw the highest level of homicides in nearly 20 years.
