Man charged after 11-year-old girl shot by stray bullet
Willow James was riding home from school with her dad and cousin when gunshots rang out near 158th and Paulina streets. Nearly three weeks later, police arrested 29-year-old Graylin Waters.
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Willow James was riding home from school with her dad and cousin when gunshots rang out near 158th and Paulina streets. Nearly three weeks later, police arrested 29-year-old Graylin Waters.
A man was charged and accused of firing the stray bullet that hit an 11-year-old girl in the head in the south Chicago suburb of Harvey on May 28. "By the grace of god, she survived," The family attorney read during a conference on Tuesday.
A man is arrested and accused of firing the stray bullet that hit an 11-year-old girl in the head in Harvey.
Chapman chalks the charges up to political retaliation by the mayor.
Ald. Colby Chapman chalks the charges up to political retaliation by the mayor. Charlie De Mar reports.
Chapman claimed this was all political retaliation from Harvey Mayor Christopher Clark, of whom Chapman is a vocal critic.
Ald. Colby Chapman claimed this was all political retaliation from Harvey Mayor Christopher Clark, of whom Chapman is a vocal critic. Charlie De Mar reports.
Willow James was shot in the head while riding in a car in the south Chicago suburb of Harvey last week.
Willow James was shot in the head while riding in a car Harvey last week.
Chapman had been charged with disorderly conduct and resisting a police officer after she was arrested at the April 28 Harvey City Council meeting.
Ald. Colby Chapman had been charged with disorderly conduct and resisting a police officer after she was arrested at the April 28 Harvey City Council meeting.
Ald. Colby Chapman (2nd Ward) was arrested for a third time during a council meeting last week.
Mayor Christopher Clark said the city council voted to censure Ald. Colby Chapman and remove her from the meeting.
The incident happened just after 5 p.m. Tuesday near 147th and Perry Avenue.
Latrecia Marshall-Parris, 48, of Harvey, Illinois, was charged with two counts of continuing a financial crime enterprise and two counts of theft.
For 40 years, kids from five to 14 years old — both boys and girls — have trained and learned the sport with the Harvey Twisters.
The young athletes who are part of the south suburban Chicago wrestling team learn important lessons outside the gym too. Jim Williams reports.
Alma West has been displaced from her block in Harvey since January.
Harvey Mayor Christopher Clark decided to foot the bill to demolish a neighboring house so the work on Alma West's could get started. Jermont Terry reports.
Terri Hall, 54, went missing on Thursday in Chicago, while on the way from a south suburban hospital to a mental health facility on the West Side.
Terri Hall's children said she has a history of mental illness, something UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey was aware of when they arranged for her to be taken to a mental health center in Chicago.
Dakota Petrey, 30, has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated criminal sexual assault in the death of Vanessa Ceja Ramirez.
The trustees' absence meant there were not enough board members to vote on paying the insurance bill.
A city spokesperson said it appeared the truck driver lost control of his vehicle while headed east on 147th Street while trying to make a turn at Winchester Avenue.
The driver was finally extricated after about three hours Wednesday evening. Jermont Terry reports.
