At least 9 hurt, including child, in Far South Side crash, police say
Police said the driver of an SUV ignored a traffic signal and was hit by two sedans and a Pace bus.
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Police said the driver of an SUV ignored a traffic signal and was hit by two sedans and a Pace bus.
The Prevost family attended St. Mary of the Assumption Church, at 13764 S. Leyden Ave. in Chicago’s Riverdale neighborhood. Sara Machi talked with people in the area Thursday afternoon.
The first incident happened on Dec. 26, 2024, just before 3 a.m., in the 6200 block of North Bell Avenue.
Officers were responding to a call of a knife-wielding man chasing another person in the Eggers Grove Forest Preserve near 114th and Avenue G.
The 16-year-old boy was hit nine times in his body by the gunfire and was taken to Advocate Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition and later died. He was identified as Makai Rodriguez. Two other teens were also hurt.
Police said that in each incident, the suspects placed a chain on a business's front shutter or door to pull it off the hinges and remove the ATM.
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Vincente Rodriguez, 20, of Aurora, Illinois, was charged with three felony counts of reckless homicide with a motor vehicle.
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Two boys, 13 and 15, were charged in the armed carjacking in West Pullman, and a 16-year-old was charged in connection to a September carjacking in Washington Heights.
Chicago police are investigating an apparent burglary at a Dollar Tree store in Roseland and an ATM burglary at a Family Dollar in Hegewisch.
Video shows a masked suspect with a backpack strapped around the front of his body at the counter. The suspect then pulls a gun and stands up on the counter, pointing the gun.
The incident happened just after 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 30 in the 11800 block of South Indiana Avenue.
Rosie Liggins described the moment both her son and grandson were shot in the West Pullman neighborhood.
Two women got into a quarrel on the No. 29 State Street bus at 87th Street, and one of them pulled a gun.
The victims’ specific ages were not immediately available.
Chicago police said a man, 32, was traveling westbound in a black sedan when he disregarded a traffic signal and crashed into a black SUV.
A male and female in the SUV suffered minor injuries and were taken to Christ Hospital in fair condition.
Police said the woman was inside a home when someone fired a gunshot from outside.
It happened around 11:15 p.m. in the 8600 block of South Vincennes Avenue.
Chicago police say around 9:30 p.m., the woman was sitting on a porch in the 11800 block of South Indiana Avenue with another man when an unknown man in a dark-colored SUV drove by and started shooting.
The man on the porch with the woman, who had a concealed carry license, fired back, and the SUV driver left the scene.
Chicago police say officers responded to the scene and found the front of the store had been damaged.
Chicago police say two men and a woman were sitting in this parked minivan just after 1 a.m. in the 8300 block of South Ashland Avenue in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood when someone opened fire.
A 40-year-old woman was struck in the head and taken to Christ Hospital with serious injuries. Two men were also hit by gunfire.
