Police: 1 Dead, 12 Wounded In Weekend Shootings
A man was killed and at least 11 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday evening, according to police.
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A man was killed and at least 11 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday evening, according to police.
The shooting happened in the 200 block of Torrence Avenue about 11:40 p.m., according to a statement from Calumet City police.
One suspect knocks on the victim's door and claims to be a construction worker building speed bumps behind the victim's home, according to a community alert from police. As the suspect distracts the victim, other men enter the home and take property.
A West Side man has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend in front of her two children in 2013 in the North Lawndale neighborhood.
The 29-year-old was sleeping inside a vehicle about 3:25 a.m. under a viaduct in the 800 block of West Kinzie when someone walked up and announced a robbery, according to Chicago Police.
Police said officers were investigating reports of a carjacking shortly after 10 p.m., and spotted a vehicle suspected to be the one they were seeking in the 600 block of East 100th Place. Instead of pulling over, the driver leaned out the window and began shooting at officers, police said.
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The man, thought to be in his 20s, was found at 3:57 a.m. lying on the ground unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the back in the 3800 block of West Roosevelt Road.
Friends of a 69-year-old Chicago jazz drummer said he was the victim of a hate crime this past weekend, when he was attacked leaving the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge in Uptown.
At 3:36 a.m., a 19-year-old man was picking up his ex-girlfriend from her new boyfriend's house in the 5000 block of West Dickens when the boyfriend stabbed him, according to Chicago Police.
Most recently, two men and a teenage boy were shot in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side.
The robbery happened at the Great Lakes Credit Union at 2525 Green Bay Rd. in North Chicago about 1:40 p.m., FBI spokesman Garrett Croon said.
Mustafa Mousa Ahmad, 30, was charged with two misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct, according to a statement from Riverside police.
Police Supt. Eddie Johnson renewed his call for state lawmakers to help curb gun violence in Chicago, on the heels of another bloody weekend, which included the murder of a police officer's son.
The weekend's latest homicide happened Sunday morning in the South Side Park Manor neighborhood.
She was the second 6-year-old shot in Chicago in less than a week.
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The weekend's latest homicide happened Sunday morning in the South Side Park Manor neighborhood.
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A gunman reportedly opened fire from a rooftop near 87th and Sangamon streets, aiming at the street, injuring at least one person, Chicago police said.
The 35-year-old woman was shot in the chest in the 1600 block of South Springfield about 10:45 a.m., according to Chicago Police.
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Family members say Arshell "Trey" Dennis III came to Chicago to visit his mother, and was preparing to return to college.
Authorities are searching for the man who robbed a Chase Bank branch in the Loop Friday afternoon.
Crews are the scene of a church fire in south suburban Ford Heights, Illinois.
Cook County Crime Stoppers announced Wednesday that they are offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to an arrest in a shooting that killed a 17-year-old girl on Chicago's West Side this past weekend.
Police were involved in a shooting in Aurora, Illinois, on Wednesday afternoon.
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Crews are the scene of a church fire in south suburban Ford Heights, Illinois.
Cook County Crime Stoppers announced Wednesday that they are offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to an arrest in a shooting that killed a 17-year-old girl on Chicago's West Side this past weekend.
Police were involved in a shooting in Aurora, Illinois, on Wednesday afternoon.
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Cook County Crime Stoppers announced Wednesday that they are offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to an arrest in a shooting that killed a 17-year-old girl on Chicago's West Side this past weekend.
Police were involved in a shooting in Aurora, Illinois, on Wednesday afternoon.
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