Cop Killer Sentenced To 125 Years In Prison
Shawn Gaston, 22, was convicted of first-degree murder in September in the drive-by shooting death of Officer Alejandro "Alex" Valadez on June 1, 2009.
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Shawn Gaston, 22, was convicted of first-degree murder in September in the drive-by shooting death of Officer Alejandro "Alex" Valadez on June 1, 2009.
Wheeling police are asking for the public's help in solving a cold case, exactly 20 years later.
A teenage murderer is headed back to jail after a judge refused to withdraw his guilty plea.
A Cook County Jail inmate has been charged with the murder of a man who was struck multiple times by gunfire in a drive-by shooting just blocks from his South Side home in July.
An 18-year-old man was ordered held on $500,000 bond on Tuesday, charged with stabbing another man to death during a street brawl in Bridgeport on Sunday.
A 73-year-old woman was found beaten to death over the weekend in the garage of her home in Bridgeport.
One moment, Harry Rodriguez of the Belmont-Cragin neighborhood was celebrating his birthday. The next, he lay dying after being shot in the chest at his own party.
A 16-year-old boy was killed and his mother was critically injured when they were both shot in the head during a home invasion Tuesday morning in the Avondale neighborhood.
A woman found dead in her west suburban apartment was murdered, police said Monday as they continue searching for her ex-husband, with whom she still shared the home.
Four men and a woman have been charged in a shooting that killed a 13-year-old boy as he played basketball in a city park during the summer.
A Lincoln Park neighborhood man is charged with stabbing a prostitute to death this week at a boutique hotel in River North.
A Jefferson Park neighborhood man stands charged with murder in the death of his 3-month-old daughter, who died this week as a result of injuries from child abuse.
The former cop charged with kidnapping and murdering a Sycamore girl in 1957 first will stand trial for raping another girl in the same town less than five years later, DeKalb County prosecutors said.
Police are questioning the parents of a 3-month old Jefferson Park girl who died on Tuesday as a result of several injuries from child abuse.
A Seattle man charged in the kidnapping and murder of a 7-year old Sycamore girl in 1957 will be in court Wednesday to face more charges.
Three suburban teenagers have been charged with helping a high school classmate kill his own parents in unincorporated Palos Township last month.
A male relative of a woman he allegedly shot and killed while also wounding her sister during a domestic dispute early Saturday in Logan Square has been charged police said.
Charges have been filed following the death of a gas station security guard who was shot and stabbed early Saturday at the station in the Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.
At least three people are dead and 20 others, including 10 teenagers, were wounded in apparently separate shootings during a bloody 13 hours throughout the city Friday and early Saturday.
An outpouring of public donations has paid for the cremation of a homeless Vietnam-era veteran who was killed in downtown Elgin.
A Downers Grove man has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for stabbing his wife and their unborn child to death last year.
A 46-year-old Humboldt Park man who spent nearly half his life behind bars was freed from prison on Tuesday, after the lone witness in the case recanted his testimony.
A 71-year-old Washington man accused in the 1957 kidnapping and killing of a 7-year-old Illinois girl has been charged in a separate case with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl from the same small town.
Police are searching for suspects after a man was found shot to death early Sunday in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, police said.
Charges have been filed in the November 2009 shooting death of a mother of three murdered on the West Side party, police said.
