No Arrests In Death Of Zion Mother Melanie Yates, Hit By A Stray Bullet
Yates was not believed to be the intended target instead the victim of a stray bullet.
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Yates was not believed to be the intended target instead the victim of a stray bullet.
The latest numbers from Chicago Police show shootings overall are up 9 percent compared to this time last year -- and last year wound up being the worst since 2016. A Wicker Park woman who just witnessed a shooting on the West Side says she's now packing her bags.
A Kenosha County Sheriff's deputy shot a suspect at a gas station in the village of Bristol, Wisconsin, on Thursday morning, after spotting a car that was involved in a homicide in Chicago, after he shot a police K-9, authorities said.
A man was shot and killed after an argument near a bus stop in Logan Square overnight. The shooter then killed another man.
Jarvis Wright, 27, is charged with killing Alvin Arrington at the victim's birthday party on July 17 in Sauk Village.
An elementary school in Logan Square was placed on lockdown after school hours on Wednesday, following a pair of shootings nearby.
Three people are dead and two others critically injured after a shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
A 6-year-old girl suffered graze wounds Tuesday night after she was shot on the front porch of her West Englewood home.
Body camera video shows Brown wave a knife at officers and ignoring commands to drop the weapon just before an officer fired three shots, killing him.
A 25-year-old man was shot in both legs while driving in the West Chatham neighborhood.
A woman has died after a stray bullet hit her in the head while she was inside her home in north suburban Zion.
A 2-year-old boy was injured in a shooting in Joliet Sunday night.
The 17-year-old girl and a 19-year-old woman were driving southbound in the 4600 block of South Paulina Street at about 11:54 p.m. when shots were fired, striking the 17-year-old in the hands and 19-year-old in the back, authorities said.
A person was shot on the Kennedy Expressway's Ontario Street feeder ramp early Sunday, authorities said.
An 11-year-old boy was wounded in Bronzeville early Sunday after an 8-year-old accidentally discharged a gun, police said.
A Rolling Meadows woman is charged with first degree murder after a shooting that killed a man.
The man, 29, was walking out of a gas station when an unknown man approached him on foot and fired shots, police said.
Firefighters made a big push Friday night to raise money for a colleague who was critically wounded in a mass shooting last month.
Police said the boy was sitting in a car in the 700 block of North Hamlin Avenue around 7:40 p.m., when someone shot him in the face.
A 16-year-old girl was shot and killed in Lawndale Thursday night.
Police said a 55-year-old man was in a car in an alley along North Avenue, near Damen Avenue, around 3:45 p.m., when someone tried to rob him.
Police said the boy was shot in the head inside a home in the 9300 block of South Wallace Street around 7:10 p.m.
A manhunt in underway in Tinley Park.
During a bond hearing for 24-year-old Aireon Luster, Cook County prosecutors revealed witness statements and cell phone records helped police make the case
"These charges are the beginning, we hope, of bringing some measure of closure to the grieving family of these two innocent little girls who were sitting in a parked car when they were struck by gunfire," CPD Supt. David Brown said.
