Man Charged With Shooting Toddler In Woodlawn
A 23-year-old man has been charged with shooting a toddler in the Woodlawn neighborhood, leaving the 3-year-old boy paralyzed.
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A 23-year-old man has been charged with shooting a toddler in the Woodlawn neighborhood, leaving the 3-year-old boy paralyzed.
A woman was stabbed to death while riding on the Red Line.
A federal judge on Thursday told former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds he was free to go — but he has to come back.
After a second visit to the hospital, a 6-year-old girl who was shot in the back while playing outside in Logan Square was back home and doing well.
The 25-year-old was walking down the street in the 2400 block of West 68th Street at 2:10 a.m. when he heard shots and realized he'd been hit in the back, according to Chicago Police.
She was standing at a bus stop in the 8200 block of South Ashland at 12:39 a.m. when a male wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt walked up and announced a robbery, according to Chicago Police. When she attempted to pull pepper spray out of her purse, the suspect shot her in the arm and side.
The siblings were trying to break up an argument between their mom and the 65-year-old man at 2:48 a.m. in the 8700 block of South Commercial when the man grabbed a knife and stabbed them, according to Chicago Police.
A man was killed and a woman was wounded in an Auburn Gresham neighborhood shooting early Wednesday on the South Side.
At 3:38 p.m., the suspects entered the branch at 800 N. Harlem Ave. in River Forest and announced the bank robbery while "aggressively" pointing a black handgun at multiple employees, according to FBI spokesman Garrett Croon.
Area Central detectives are investigating after a vehicle was damaged by gunfire early Tuesday while driving on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side.
In the wake of another bloody weekend in Chicago, police said they have seized more than 4,200 guns this year – more than one per hour.
Two men, thought to be in their 20s, pistol-whipped a man and robbed him of two iPhones after he approached them and asked for directions.
Most recently, a 21-year-old woman suffered a gunshot wound to the buttocks in an Austin neighborhood drive-by shooting on the West Side.
Chicago Police Chief of Detectives Eugene Roy said the victim was walking east in the 1700 block of West 46th Street around 1:30 p.m. when a light-colored Saturn sedan drove up, and someone inside started shooting.
The teens were standing near a home on the west side of Dodge Avenue and shots came from between two houses on the east side of Dodge, police said.
Devon Quinn was riding in a car in the 6100 block of South Kimbark Avenue around 6:15 p.m., when a gunman drove up and started shooting.
The most recent homicide happened about 1:30 a.m. Monday in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side. Officers responding to a call of a person shot in the 7300 block of South University found the 22-year-old man lying in the gangway, according to Chicago Police.
A teenager was shot and killed Sunday afternoon, when someone opened fire with an assault rifle outside a Catholic church in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.
In the most recent fatal shooting, a 33-year-old man was in a vehicle about 8:20 p.m. traveling southbound in the 7600 block of South Eggleston in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood when another vehicle pulled alongside and someone inside opened fire, according to from Chicago Police.
The suspect did not show a weapon and no one was injured in the robbery, authorities said.
Heriberto Aguirre, 28, was charged with one felony count each of reckless homicide involving a motor vehicle and failure to report a fatal accident, police announced Saturday.
Most recently, a man and woman were found shot to death in an apparent murder-suicide Saturday morning in the Hyde Park neighborhood.
Juan Robles, 35, approached the 20-year-old woman from behind and grabbed her waist at 8:15 a.m. in the 2700 block of South Keeler Avenue, according to a statement from Chicago Police.
Officers received a call of shots fired in the 4800 block of West Monroe in Austin just before 5:30 a.m. Saturday and found a 23-year-old man lying face down, police said. He was shot several times and was dead at the scene.
An Indiana man who said he was headed to a gay pride event had a loaded assault rifle with magazines rigged to allow 60 shots to be fired in quick succession, along with 15 pounds of chemicals mixed and ready to explode, according to police in California.
