Ald. Lopez Speaks Out On Gang Violence, Regardless Of Threats
Alderman Raymond Lopez is not backing away from comments that apparently provoked a street gang's threats against him.
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Alderman Raymond Lopez is not backing away from comments that apparently provoked a street gang's threats against him.
Blair Holt, 16, was killed 10 years ago Wednesday when he protected a friend as a gunman opened fire on a crowded CTA bus.
A 17-year-old boy was among two people killed and eight wounded in shootings Tuesday across the city, according to Chicago Police.
"Not a day goes by that I don't think about Blair, and – had he lived – what he would be doing. I really hang my hat on that," Ron Holt said
A man, thought to be in his mid-20s, was gunned down at 7:42 p.m. in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side, police said.
Chicago police kept watch in front of 15th Ward Ald. Raymond Lopez's office on Monday.
A father and son both pulled out guns and opened fire on their neighbor early Friday during an argument in the Roseland neighborhood.
The man suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the 4300 block of West 23rd Court in Gary, Indiana, according to the Lake County coroner.
Chicago Police First Deputy Supt. Kevin Navarro called the attack "another brazen act of gang violence."
Ten people were shot, two of them fatally, on Sunday evening in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side, authorities said.
Officers responded Saturday afternoon to a report of shots fired and a traffic crash at Denise Court and Elizabeth Drive.
Anthony Moore is charged with murder and attempted murder in a shooting that left Arshell Dennis III dead and another man seriously wounded.
Chicago police said 18-year-old Anthony Moore is charged with murder in the shooting death of 19-year-old Arshell "Trey" Dennis III.
A Markham police officer shot and critically wounded a man, after the man tried to flee a traffic stop and dragged the officer from his car.
Two people were wounded in separate shootings Thursday on the West and South sides, a relative lull in a city plagued by gun violence.
Chicago police have released several people who were brought in for questioning after two officers were shot Tuesday night.
The 22-year-old man was shot in the arm and abdomen, possibly during a robbery just before 3 a.m. in the 4300 block of West Cermak.
Most recently, a 28-year-old man was shot in the Chatham neighborhood.
Two Chicago Police officers were among eight people shot in less than four hours Tuesday night on Chicago's South and West sides.
A massive manhunt was underway, and police were questioning three people, after two officers were wounded in a shootout Tuesday night.
The fatal shooting happened early Monday in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
A South Elgin man is facing prison time for shooting a tow truck operator in the shoulder in 2015.
According to the Chicago Police Department, shootings were down 13% for the first four months of the year, compared to the same time in 2016
The city surpassed 1,000 gunshot victims on the year earlier in the week, and it is fast approaching the 200-homicide mark.
The man accused of shooting Raymond Myles to death came to the Cook County judge's South Side home a week before the murder, prosecutors say
