Girl Dead, Man Hospitalized After West Englewood Shooting
A 16-year-old girl was killed and another man was wounded in a drive-by shooting early Saturday in West Englewood.
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A 16-year-old girl was killed and another man was wounded in a drive-by shooting early Saturday in West Englewood.
Five people have been killed and at least 23 others wounded in shootings across the city since Friday evening, police said.
A 23-year-old was shot in the head and chest in the 7600 block of South Coles Avenue around 9:20 p.m. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he later died, police said.
Will County Judge Gerald Kinney scheduled Joshua Miner's murder trial for Sept. 22 during a court appearance Thursday for Miner, 26, and Adam Landerman, 21. But the trial could be postponed if a pending evaluation of Miner's sanity at the time of the killings is not complete.
About 9:20 p.m., officers stopped a vehicle in the 600 block of West 80th Street for having a busted out rear window, police said. When the officers exited their car, the driver took off and the vehicle crashed into a light pole.
About 10:30 p.m., the man was walking in the 1700 block of West Juneway Terrace when he heard shots ring out and felt pain.
The teen was in the 7300 block of South Wolcott Avenue about 10:05 p.m. when he was shot in the back.
The two were shot about 12:23 a.m. while they sat on a porch in the 8300 block of South Anthony Avenue.
About 11:15 p.m., the teen was outside in the 4200 block of South Wells Street when someone walked emerged from an alley and opened fire, striking him in the leg.
Just before midnight, the two men were shot in the 9300 block of South Wallace.
The man, 23, suffered gunshot wounds to the head and chest about 9:20 p.m. in the 7600 block of South Coles Avenue.
The 23-year-old man was shot in the back about 7:15 p.m. in the 6700 block of South Green Street.
Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer were arrested Tuesday, after a taxi driver found the body of 62-year-old Sheila von Wiese-Mack inside a bloody suitcase the couple allegedly left in his cab.
The 27-year-old was standing on a sidewalk with a group of people about 12:30 a.m. near the intersection of Carpenter Street and 113th Place when someone walked out of a gangway across the street and started shooting.
A Chicago attorney said Thursday he's been hired by a 19-year-old woman who was arrested in Indonesia this week, after her mother's body was found stuffed inside a suitcase, and he said his client was not involved in her mother's death.
The latest shooting happened about 11 p.m., when two men were wounded in a drive-by attack in the Gresham neighborhood.
Three people were critically wounded Wednesday night in the south side Burnside neighborhood.
CBS 2's Dave Savini has been investigating and talking to one frustrated bike rider after another who are taking to the internet to find help.
The aggressive move is underway to get bad guys off the streets in Chicago, reports CBS 2's Brad Edwards.
Hezekiah Whitfield was able to avoid listening to statements Tuesday from loved ones of the man he killed, but he couldn't escape the sentence of natural life in prison that followed.
The condition of a Loop CEO who was shot by a disgruntled colleague two weeks ago has been upgraded as he continues making progress at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Edgar Guevara, 18, was charged with one count of first-degree murder in connection with a fatal shooting in the Little Village neighborhood on Aug. 19, 2012.
Sheila von Wiese-Mack, 62, was found stuffed in a suitcase, dead from blunt force trauma, outside an upscale resort in Indonesia. Her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend have been arrested after they allegedly left the suitcase in the trunk of a taxi.
The boy, 17, was riding a bike in the street about 11:30 p.m. in the 9200 block of South Dobson when a silver sedan drove up and someone inside fired at him.
Community members in south suburban Midlothian are taking steps to make the area safer for female commuters after four women were attacked by a mugger.
