Prayer Service Held Outside Gage Park Home Where Six Family Members Found Murdered
Hundreds of people gathered on the front lawn of a home in the Gage Park neighborhood where six members of the same family were found dead last Thursday.
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Hundreds of people gathered on the front lawn of a home in the Gage Park neighborhood where six members of the same family were found dead last Thursday.
Police continue to process evidence gathered inside the Gage Park bungalow where a family of six was murdered, reports WBBM's Bob Roberts.
Relatives have confirmed the six people killed in a Gage Park home on Thursday were three generations of the same family.
Six people were found dead inside a Gage Park home on the South Side on Thursday and Chicago police are conducting a murder investigation.
Willie Clay was charged with two counts of armed robbery with a firearm and three counts of armed robbery with a dangerous weapon, according to a statement from Chicago Police.
The weekend's latest fatal shooting happened Sunday morning in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side. Brandon Miles, 29, was in the driver's seat of a car when someone opened fire from another dark-colored car about 6:15 a.m. in the 1000 block of West 50th Street.
The latest homicide happened late Saturday in the South Side Englewood neighborhood. Michael A. Johnson, 43, was found with a gunshot wound to the head about 10:45 p.m. sitting in the driver's seat of a parked vehicle in the 700 block of West 59th Street.
The incident occurred around 7 p.m. in the 2700 of West 51st Street, where a man was dead at the scene, Chicago police confirmed.
Most recently, a 24-year-old man was shot while driving in the Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
About 9:25 p.m., a 20-year-old man was shot to death in the West Side Austin neighborhood, police said. The man was standing in the parking lot of a gas station in the 300 block of South Cicero when another male walked up and shot him in the head, according to Chicago Police.
Police have closed off streets near the 3400 block of West 54th Street, and at least one nearby school was placed on lockdown, after police received a call of a male barricaded inside the home at 9:15 a.m.
The fatal shooting was Sunday night in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side. A man, thought to be in his 40s, was shot in the head about 8 p.m. during a domestic dispute in the 6800 block of South Loomis Boulevard, according to preliminary information from Chicago Police.
About 9:45 p.m., the 26-year-old was standing on the sidewalk in the 5100 block of South Homan Avenue when a male got out of a light-colored SUV and shot him in the leg, police said.
Most recently, a man was shot to death late Wednesday in the Burnside neighborhood on the South Side, police said. The man, 48, was standing on the sidewalk in the 9200 block of South University about 11:10 p.m., when someone walked up and opened fire.
Bond was set at $500,000 on Friday for a man charged with breaking into a Gage Park neighborhood home and exposing himself to a sleeping teenage girl early Thursday.
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A 17-year-old girl has been missing from the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side since the Fourth of July, police said.
A 26-year-old man was shot in the back of the head early Saturday in a Gage Park neighborhood drive-by attack on the Southwest Side.
Devonte Terry, 19, was shot in the back and found unresponsive in the 5600 block of South Artesian Avenue at 12:44 a.m., police and the Cook County medical examiner's office said.
Police describe the vehicle as a dark sedan with a sunroof and spoiler. Police say it may also have a front-end bra, sport muffler and a broken lamp.
The fatal shooting happened about 1:50 a.m. Wednesday in the Uptown neighborhood on the North Side. The 24-year-old woman was a passenger in a vehicle in the 4500 block of North Broadway when gunfire erupted and she was struck in the head.
Two men survived a fiery car wreck in Gage Park early Friday, thanks to the heroics of two Chicago police officers.
Ald. JoAnn Thompson (16th), who represented parts of the Englewood and Gage Park neighborhoods, has died of heart failure. Thompson's office confirmed she died Monday night. She had been hospitalized for weeks, due to heart-related health issues. She was 58 years old.
The most recent fatal shooting happened Sunday morning on the Near West Side. Shawn Holloway, 21, was shot in the side and back about 11 a.m. in the 2100 block of West Warren Boulevard, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
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