IPRA Wants 3 Cops Fired For Shootings Found To Be Unjustified
The officers were involved in two separate cases in which shots were fired into vehicles. In both cases, IPRA ruled the officers were not in danger when they fired their weapons.
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The officers were involved in two separate cases in which shots were fired into vehicles. In both cases, IPRA ruled the officers were not in danger when they fired their weapons.
A young mother of two was shot and killed early Wednesday as she was walking to the store, less than a day after moving to the South Chicago neighborhood.
The latest shooting happened at 11:13 p.m. in the South Side Englewood neighborhood.
Police said the shooting happened around 11:10 a.m. near West End and Laporte avenues. Three teenage boys were standing on the sidewalk when two gunmen came out of a nearby alley and opened fire.
A man was killed and a woman critically injured in a shooting at 4:24 p.m. in the South Side Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood, according to Chicago Police.
Charles Ternior, 22, was charged with one count of first-degree murder and one misdemeanor count of obstructing identification in connection with the fatal shooting of Larry Lawrence on June 29 in the 1100 block of North Clark, according to Chicago Police.
Tacarra Morgan is playing like any other child on a warm summer day. That's amazing, really, when you consider what happened to her just six days ago. CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports.
The weekend's latest homicide happened Sunday afternoon in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
A civilian employee of the Chicago Police Department shot a man who allegedly tried to rob him Monday morning in the Lawndale neighborhood.
Special first-aid training and equipment are credited with helping the officer survive being shot in the thigh.
About 40 kids in the Summer Safe Haven program at Holy Zion Church marched a few blocks to the home of Tacarra Morgan, chanting "Don't shoot! I want to grow up."
The 19-year-old was walking on the sidewalk in the 7100 block of South King Drive about 1:10 a.m. when someone in a black SUV shot him in the left thigh, according to Chicago Police.
The 24-year-old was standing on the sidewalk in the 7300 block of South Morgan about 12:06 a.m. when he heard shots and realized he'd been hit, according to Chicago Police.
Most recently, two men were wounded – one of them critically – in the North Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
A 6-year-old girl was expected to make a full recovery after she was shot while playing on her grandmother's porch in Englewood.
Eric Black, 33, faces counts of murder, attempted murder and unlawful use of a weapon for the Sunday shooting in the 5000 block of West Jackson, according to Chicago Police.
At 12:24 a.m., the 26-year-old was the passenger in a vehicle driving southbound in the 2300 block of West Arthur when two males on the sidewalk nearby opened fire, according to Chicago Police.
At 2:03 a.m., the 23-year-old was walking on the sidewalk in the 3800 block of West Chicago when two males walked up and opened fire, according to Chicago Police.
Officers responding about 12:43 a.m. to reports of shots fired in the 3200 block of West 62nd Street found the 37-year-old woman on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the right buttock, according to Chicago Police.
A 38-year-old man was fatally shot about 6:40 p.m. in the South Shore neighborhood, according to Chicago Police.
Police said the driver and passenger of a Chevy sedan were shot around midnight as they were headed north near 71st Street.
The latest homicide happened around 11:45 p.m. in the 6300 block of South Parnell Avenue.
Police in Chicago and across the country have been on high alert since a sniper killed five officers and wounded nine others in Dallas on July 7, and tensions were heightened 10 days later, when six Baton Rouge officers were shot, three of them fatally on Sunday.
Sunday night, two separate Austin neighborhood shootings left two men killed and two men wounded on the West Side.
The shooting, coming the same day that three police officers were killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, prompted the Milwaukee Police Department to send all officers out in two-person squad teams, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
