Chicago Police: October Murders, Shootings Both Down From Last Year
For the eighth-straight month this year, Chicago saw a reduction in gun violence in October, the police department announced Wednesday.
Watch CBS News
For the eighth-straight month this year, Chicago saw a reduction in gun violence in October, the police department announced Wednesday.
There will be no special prosecutor assigned to investigate the deadly shooting of Flint Farmer by former Chicago Police Officer Gildardo Sierra, Cook County's chief criminal judge ruled Tuesday.
Marcus Norwood, 39, is charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery, armed robbery, and aggravated unlawful restraint.
The most recent fatal shooting happened just after 9 a.m. in the South Shore neighborhood.
Khalil Carter was shot multiple times and taken to Community Hospital in Munster, Indiana, where he died of his wounds at 4:45 p.m.
The two incidents are being investigated as an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said. The victims were once married.
A man has been charged with shooting a 65-year-old man during a road-rage incident on Saturday afternoon in west suburban Elmhurst.
A robbery and shooting inside a legendary River North steakhouse left three people injured late Sunday night.
Two people have been charged in an "accidental" shooting that killed a 16-year-old Amundsen High School cheerleader Sunday evening.
The latest fatal shooting happened at 6:57 p.m. Sunday, when a 16-year-old girl was accidentally shot in the eye near 66th and Marquette.
A preliminary investigation showed that an argument broke out between several partygoers, and someone pulled out a gun and opened fire.
A woman was fatally shot and a man died after shooting himself in the head in an apparent homicide-suicide Saturday afternoon in Plainfield.
Officers responded to the crash about 2:13 p.m. near York Road and Diversey Avenue and found the man shot in the face.
The bullet struck and shattered the victim's driver's side window. He was struck in the face by glass fragments and taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police officers responded to a home in the 3600 block of Grand View Court, for reports of a shooting during a residential burglary.
Police said the victims were found dead from gunshot wounds around 10 a.m. in the 3400 block of West Augusta Boulevard.
The last two times Hope Academy was scheduled to host a football game, its opponents forfeited, citing worries over a recent gang-related shooting near the field at Altgeld Park.
A 29-year-old was walking at 1:17 a.m. in the 7500 block of North Wolcott when someone walked up, pulled out a gun and announced a robbery.
The teens were struck when shots were fired at 3:36 p.m. in the 2500 block of West 45th Street, police said.
St. Charles Police are investigating a residential burglary on Thursday after a person was reported shot.
About 2:10 a.m., the 41-year-old was standing in an alley in the 9600 block of South Euclid when someone approached and fired shots.
A 19-year-old man was killed in a Washington Park neighborhood drive-by shooting Wednesday afternoon on the South Side, police said.
A woman was robbed and shot at Wednesday afternoon in what may have been the latest in a series of robberies committed by men wearing masks on the Near West Side.
Michael D. LaPorta was shot in the head with a bullet from Officer Patrick Kelly's service weapon on Jan. 12, 2010.
The day's first shooting happened about 1:45 a.m. in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
