Gary Homicide Total Highest Since 2007
The total for 2013 is up 28 percent over 2012, but the number of shootings decreased by 30 percent, police said.
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The total for 2013 is up 28 percent over 2012, but the number of shootings decreased by 30 percent, police said.
Darius D. Marshall of Dolton surrendered to authorities Monday and is accused of first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery, according to police.
A Country Club Hills man charged with murdering his wife in their south suburban home was ordered held on $600,000 bond during a hearing Wednesday.
Milton Miranda, 22, faces one count of first-degree murder in connection with the May murder and dismemberment of Jose Reyes, according to Chicago Police.
Alexis Valdez, 18, has been charged with first-degree murder, for allegedly killing 41-year-old Silvestre Diaz-Hernandez inside a basement apartment in the 2500 block of North Kildare Avenue early Christmas morning.
Charges of murder, attempted murder, attempted robbery, criminal confinement and battery with a deadly weapon have been filed against a Gary man who was wounded during the shooting that left one person dead earlier this month.
An 18-year-old man was charged with first-degree murder Thursday after police found a decapitated man early Christmas morning in the Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Two men face murder and attempted robbery charges in connection with a fatal shooting early Monday in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the South Side.
Three people have been arrested for the September 2012 murder of a 45-year-old woman — allegedly arranged by her son — in the Uptown neighborhood, police said.
The day after the remains were found, federal authorities in Las Vegas took William J. Ross into custody.
Two men have been ordered held without bond, accused of shooting and killing a Cook County Sheriff's deputy as the officer tried to stop them from robbing his daughter and her boyfriend over the weekend.
Michael Tigue, 15, appeared in bond court Saturday, where Cook County Judge James Brown set bond at $2 million.
Police in north suburban Evanston said they have linked a bank robber who was shot and killed earlier this week to the murders of two brothers at a local tobacco shop in July.
Michael Axtell, 42, is charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of Tammy Stone, 40, in October 2012.
Denzel Garbutt, 21, was charged with first-degree murder for the May 19, 2012, shooting in the 8000 block of South Brandon Avenue.
A South Side woman previously charged in a stabbing at a local Chuck E. Cheese allegedly plunged a knife into her ex-boyfriend's chest and killed him after their escalating fights on social media turned physical.
A grieving mother has been out leafleting a north-west side neighborhood today in the hopes that someone will help to solve the October 29th murder of her 23-year-old son.
Alberto Gaytan, 42, of the 3000 block of West Ainslie Street, was arrested on first degree murder charges Wednesday night.
Montago Suggs, of Kenosha, was convicted of killing 22-year-old Melinda "Mindy" Morrell, of Round Lake Park, during a robbery in Waukegan.
Gabriela Escutia, 24, of the 2700 block of Snowmass Court, faces two counts of murder in the death of 18-year-old Javier Barrios.
A West Englewood man was ordered held on $500,000 bond Friday for allegedly killing his 28-day-old son on Halloween.
A north suburban man accused of nearly decapitating his wife with a machete and later suffocating his elderly mother will spend the rest of his life behind bars if he is convicted their murders.
A Gary, Ind., man was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2011 murder and sexual assault of a Griffith, Ind., woman who gave a stranger a ride home from a restaurant.
A man who allegedly fled after stabbing his girlfriend to death in their Little Village home was ordered held on $1.5 million bond Monday.
Emmanuel Dominguez, 30, of Chicago, who had been reported missing by his family, was discovered Nov. 4 in the trunk of a car that had been abandoned and set on fire before someone left his body there, police said.
