Family Offers $6,000 Reward In Unsolved 2016 Dolton Murder
The family of a teenage mother who was shot and killed more than a year ago in Dolton was offering a $6,000 reward for information, in hopes of generating new leads in the case.
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The family of a teenage mother who was shot and killed more than a year ago in Dolton was offering a $6,000 reward for information, in hopes of generating new leads in the case.
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.
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