6 Dead, 28 Wounded In Holiday Weekend Shootings
Six men were killed and at least 28 other people were wounded in shootings throughout the city so far this holiday weekend.
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Six men were killed and at least 28 other people were wounded in shootings throughout the city so far this holiday weekend.
Dozens of people have been shot this long holiday weekend, including two boys who were just trying to enjoy family parties for the 4th of July.
A man said to be in his late teens was critically wounded Thursday during a confrontation with police in the Washington Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.
The violence began about 6:50 p.m. Wednesday when a gunman exited a green vehicle and shot 24-year-old Rayford Brown in the back in the 2400 block of East 79th Street.
He was in the 2400 block of East 79th Street about 6:50 p.m. when a male gunman got out of a green car and started firing, police said.
Two men were wounded when gunfire erupted during a Wednesday afternoon argument in the North Lawndale neighborhood.
Two people were shot to death just blocks apart on the West Side late Tuesday and early Wednesday morning in the Austin neighborhood.
A manhunt is underway by police in McHenry County for the ex-boyfriend of a woman left for dead this morning in her Crystal Lake home.
A street vendor was shot and killed early Tuesday at a gas station near an exit ramp from Interstate 57 in the Washington Heights neighborhood.
Two women were wounded by gunfire Monday during a drive-by shooting in the South Side Roseland neighborhood.
A man was shot and killed trying to outrun a gunman who opened fire on a group of people in a vehicle Monday night in the South Side Washington Heights neighborhood.
A man was killed in a shooting in the Washington Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side Monday night, police said.
Police are looking for a man who tried to kidnap a woman walking in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood last week on the Northwest Side.
Two females were shot Monday in the South Side Roseland neighborhood.
LaMar Wilson, of the 4900 block of Washington Street, was charged Thursday, two days after being arrested by U.S. marshals in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Police said the gunmen fired at least five shots, without any regard for the children and families in and around the park.
The number of murders for the first half of the year was the lowest in nearly 50 years.
The most recent murder victim was a 24-year-old man who was killed in a shooting Sunday afternoon in the South Shore neighborhood, authorities said.
A man was killed in a shooting Sunday afternoon in the South Shore neighborhood.
Ten days after a suspect rode up on a bicycle, showed a gun and robbed a man of his cellphone in Waukegan, police were able to identify him and arrest him.
A Chicago man has been charged with attempted murder and a slew of other crimes following a car crash in River Forest June 25.
A teen was wounded in a West Garfield Park shooting early Sunday on the city's West Side.
Police said an 18-year-old man shot multiple times on the West Side Friday night is a suspect in a double murder less than 24 hours earlier in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.
A man has been charged in a brazen robbery attempt at a mall jewelry store in suburban Chicago in which the suspect was shot.
One person was killed and 16 other people were wounded in shootings across the city since Friday night.
