Police: One Dead, One Wounded In Austin Neighborhood Shooting
Two people are in custody in connection to a shooting that left a man dead and wounded another in the West Side Austin neighborhood, police said.
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Two people are in custody in connection to a shooting that left a man dead and wounded another in the West Side Austin neighborhood, police said.
A man was killed in a Back of the yards neighborhood shooting late Friday.
A male was shot while driving on the Dan Ryan Expressway Friday night, according to police.
Shortly before midnight, police officers saw two armed men approach two other men walking down an alley near the 7900 block of South Justine Street, police said. The suspects announced a robbery, and when they spotted police, the suspects shot the two men in the alley.
A manhunt was underway early Friday, after an off-duty Chicago police officer was shot during a robbery attempt in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.
The most recent fatal shooting happened after an armed robbery attempt just before midnight in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
The robber, identified as 26-year-old Carl P. Wilson of Joliet, entered the First Midwest Bank branch at 11200 W. 143rd St. in Orland Park just after 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 13 armed with a semi-automatic handgun and wearing a black hood on his face, according to the FBI.
A superseding indictment filed last week in the U.S. District Court in Hammond charges Jeremiah Ellis with two counts each of Hobbs Act robbery and of robbery affecting commerce.
Investigators in northwest Indiana have begun using suspected serial killer Darren Vann's cell phone records, in an effort to track his movements before his arrest.
The bodies were discovered about 4:15 p.m. inside a home in the 4100 block of West 63rd Street, police said. The 17-year-old boy and the 28-year-old man were both shot and pronounced dead at the scene.
The co-star of a Chicago-based web series was shot and killed Wednesday night in south suburban Richton Park.
A woman robbed a Chase Bank branch Wednesday afternoon in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood.
Wednesday afternoon, 43-year-old Darren Vann was charged with strangling 35-year-old Anith Jones, whose body was among six found in vacant buildings in Gary, Indiana, over the weekend.
An initial court appearance for suspected serial killer Darren Vann was delayed one week, after Vann refused to speak in court on Wednesday.
About 9:45 p.m., the two were standing on the front porch of a building in the 1500 block of West 72nd Place when three males walked by and at least one of them opened fire, police said.
Families of the Gary murder victims are showing their grief and their frustration with a police response to a missing loved, reports CBS 2's Pamela Jones.
The FBI has put the bite on a Cook County Jail guard and a Chicago 911 supervisor and five others, for attempting to smuggle contraband into the jail, reports WBBM's Bob Roberts.
Police are asking for the public's help finding a man who had "inappropriate contact" with a 15-year-old girl more than once in west suburban Naperville.
Police detectives in North Carolina tell WBBM they are looking at Darren Vann as a possible suspect in an unsolved murder from 22 years ago.
The 57-year-old was at a tailgate before the game a few minutes before 11 a.m. Sunday in Section 1E of the McCormick Place parking lot when he got into an argument that turned physical, police said. The man was discovered "incapacitated" near his SUV with blunt trauma to the head and face,
Aaron Smith, 28, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of 27-year-old Anthony Morris, according to Chicago Police.
Police at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign were encouraging students to walk in pairs, or take public transit, in the wake of recent attacks on campus.
A convicted sex offender was expected in court Wednesday, charged with killing one of seven women whose bodies were found in northwest Indiana over the weekend.
Chicago police shot and killed a 17-year-old boy in the Archer Heights neighborhood Monday night, after he allegedly ignored orders to drop a knife.
Selena Strong, 26, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, two counts of neglect of a dependent, and battery in the death of Brandon Dillon, who was found dead Sept. 30 on an air mattress in the apartment where he lived with Strong, her husband, Bernard Dillon, 37, Brandon's twin sister and infant sister.
