Armed robbers target Red Line riders on South Side, CPD says
Chicago police said a recent spate of armed robberies in Greater Grand Crossing, Roseland and Englewood have targeted CTA riders.
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Chicago police said a recent spate of armed robberies in Greater Grand Crossing, Roseland and Englewood have targeted CTA riders.
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On Thursday, a jury found Lawrence Boyle, 65, guilty on two counts of first-degree murder in the death of 30-year-old Sierra Jamison back on Sept. 18, 2023, in Grand Crossing.
The 25-year-old was found shot near the street in Grand Crossing on Wednesday evening.
Two men, ages 66 and 70, were shot and wounded outside a business on Chicago's South Side Sunday morning.
Police said around 11:30 p.m., a 31-year-old man was shot while standing outside near 68th Street and Calumet Avenue.
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Police said officers were responding to reports of a burglary from freight train cars in Englewood when a suspect in an SUV struck an officer, prompting other officers to open fire.
Police say it started with a call about some people stealing items from a train car in Englewood, but their investigation would soon end with five officers and two suspects in the hospital. As Sara Machi reports, one suspect remained at large late Wednesday.
Chicago police and firefighters responded to Tanner Elementary School in the Grand Crossing neighborhood on Wednesday for reports of a possible overdose.
Chicago police said the teen was walking outside when a man fired multiple shots in her direction and left the scene.
Police are searching for the man who shot a 17-year-old girl in Chicago's Grand Crossing neighborhood on Tuesday night.
Police said a quarrel broke out among a group of women at 1:13 a.m. Thursday, May 15, and a man approached, pulled out a gun, and shot one of the women twice.
Chicago police said the victim was outside arguing with an unknown man who then shot at the victim, hitting him multiple times about the body.
The man, identified as 47-year-old Alfonzo Wright, died at the scene. None of the officers were hurt.
Employees said the shooting took place outside the convenience store at the gas station and was captured on security cameras.
Just before 1:15 a.m., the Chicago Police Department responded to a call of a person shot in the 7800 block of South Eberhart Avenue. Chicago police said a 20-year-old woman got into an argument with a group of women when a man walked up and shot her twice.
A 40-year-old man was killed in a shooting at a gas station early Wednesday morning on Chicago's South Side, police said.
A 40-year-old man was killed in the shooting following a quarrel at the gas station on Stony Island Avenue. Sara Machi reports.
Keith Harding, 58, was found dead a few hours after police shot and killed a man who came at them with a knife inside Grand Regency of Jackson Park Supportive Living.
CPD said a second crime scene was discovered at an assisted living facility where officers shot an armed man early this morning, but it was unclear if they're connected.
One neighbor who has lived in the Grand Crossing neighborhood assisted living facility for two years now said she hears people quarreling there all the time — and it is starting to be a scary place to live. Asal Rezaei reports.
Police said officers failed to subdue the armed man with Tasers and discharged their weapons, hitting the man.
Just after 2:15 a.m., Chicago police said firefighters responded to the building in the 7100 block of South Rhodes Avenue and found a 32-year-old man.
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Taylor said he knows it wasn't the wisest to fight back, but said his SUV is essential to his job and family.
Prosecutors said the suspect deliberately set the fire back in November.
Parents said school officials knew this custodian was under a criminal investigation back in October, but were not told by the district until just last week.
According to a spokesperson from the Department of Homeland Security, an ICE officer was attacked by three men with a snow shovel and broom handle during an arrest.
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Matt Taylor said he had just pulled into the shopping center and said, while finishing up a cigarette, three guys in a black SUV approached.
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Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that they have charged a registered nurse to giving counterfeit Ozempic to patients in Chicago.
Two teens stood charged Wednesday with carjacking a man at gunpoint in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood this week, and one of them was also charged in two different robberies at CTA Red Line stops last year.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson held a roundtable discussion Wednesday morning with leaders within the Chicago Police Department and violence prevention partners.
A man was left in critical condition Tuesday morning after he was shot while driving in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood and went on to crash his car.
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