Two Found Dead In West Pullman Home
Haristien Lacy, 86, and Veronica Lacy, 55, were both found unresponsive inside a home about 4 a.m. in the 11500 block of South Ada Street.
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Haristien Lacy, 86, and Veronica Lacy, 55, were both found unresponsive inside a home about 4 a.m. in the 11500 block of South Ada Street.
The woman, 22, was walking on the sidewalk in the 12700 block of South Morgan Street about 12:30 p.m. when she "heard shots and felt pain."
Two people are dead – including a teenage boy – and at least eight other people have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday afternoon.
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About 4:40 p.m., officers responding to a call of shots fired discovered the 30-year-old with a gunshot wound to his head in the 11200 block of South Ada Street.
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The crash involved a van or minibus that crashed into a tree.
A man and woman were critically injured in a West Pullman shooting Tuesday night on the Far South Side.
Bond has been set at $200,000 for a 19-year-old man charged with the shooting this week of two boys in the Far South Side Washington Heights neighborhood.
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Five men have been killed and at least 23 people were wounded in gun violence on the city's streets from Friday night to Sunday night.
Four men have been killed and at least 20 people were wounded in gun violence on the city's streets from Friday night to early Sunday.
A police officer shot a person in his foot after he allegedly pointed a semi-automatic handgun at him and his partner Sunday night in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said.
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