2 Dead, 12 Wounded In Weekend Gun Violence
Two men were killed and at least 12 other people have been wounded in shootings across the city since Friday night.
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Two men were killed and at least 12 other people have been wounded in shootings across the city since Friday night.
The robber earned his name by wearing a different jacket in each robbery, each with a different logo on the front, according to the FBI.
The 32-year-old cab driver picked up a passenger in his Yellow Cab at Western and Devon avenues around 2:30 a.m., police said. After the man got in the cab, he announced a robbery, and displayed a knife.
A 16-year-old boy was wounded in the most recent shooting in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side. A gray or silver truck pulled up near the boy in the 1100 block of East 72nd Street, and a male inside fired shots.
Two people are being questioned after a man was killed and two others injured when gunfire erupted during a home invasion Tuesday afternoon in the South Side Avalon Park neighborhood.
Denzel Pittman killed his girlfriend, Jade Hannah, before turning the knife on Jade's mother, Stacy Cochran-Hill, 43, and Jade's 11-year-old sister, Joi Cochran, Cook County prosecutors said at the opening of Pittman's bench trial on Wednesday.
About 1:40 a.m., the 24-year-old was sitting in the driver seat of a car parked in the 8100 block of South Oglesby Avenue when someone walked up and opened fire, police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said.
In each robbery, police said, two men approach the victim, show a handgun and demand their property.
He loved basketball and was likely headed to college, but the mother of slain Urban Prep student Deonte Hoard wonders why her son died on the streets of Chicago.
The home invasion and shooting happened in the 8000 block of South Dante Avenue about 1:20 p.m. Tuesday, police said.
Seven burglaries have occurred between Feb. 6 and Feb. 24, Area North detectives said in a community alert issued Tuesday night.
Alton Bradley was stabbed some time Tuesday near 142nd Avenue and Lauerman Street in Cedar Lake, Ind., according to the Lake County coroner's office.
A South Side charter school is mourning the murder of one of its students.
Three people were wounded Tuesday afternoon in a home invasion in the Avalon Park neighborhood, according to Police News Affairs.
A Chicago-area man charged with trying to travel with his siblings to Syria to join the Islamic State group is scheduled to appear in court days after FBI agents raided his family home for a second time.
About 7:20 p.m., Deonte M. Hoard and the 23-year-old man were shot in the 10500 block of South Yates Avenue, police and the Cook County medical examiner's office said.
Chicago Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect in the shooting of a teen boy last month.
A man who robbed a southwest suburban Hometown bank Friday morning is suspected of two other Southwest Side bank robberies throughout the last several months.
A Sunday morning shooting that left a man critically wounded in the South Side Gresham neighborhood may have happened during a robbery.
A man has been charged with shooting a bouncer after a fight at a bar early Saturday in northwest suburban Fox Lake.
In the race for Chicago mayor, challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia spoke Saturday in favor of higher pay for home health care workers and committed himself to work toward a $15 an hour floor salary.
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with shooting another teen to death Friday afternoon in west suburban Aurora.
A man who was a passenger in a vehicle was shot Friday evening while on an off-ramp of the Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) in west suburban Oak Park.
Despite comparable resources to other big city's, Chicago's violence continues to outpace the likes of New York and Los Angeles -- why?
