Teen Critically Hurt, Relative Hit By Stray Bullet On NW Side
A teenage boy was critically hurt and an errant bullet hit his relative during a gang-related shooting early Saturday in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood.
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A teenage boy was critically hurt and an errant bullet hit his relative during a gang-related shooting early Saturday in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood.
Police said the boy was riding a bike east in the 1100 block of West Wilson Avenue when a shooter got out of a car and opened fire about 7:15 p.m.
Demarius Reed was a starter for Eastern Michigan University. His body was found in his off-campus last Friday.
When officers entered the scene the woman was in a domestic dispute with a relative and was "belligerent and acting totally violent" with a knife.
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Police were responding to a 911 call about a domestic dispute around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, in the 200 block of West 107th Street, when they were confronted by a man armed with a butcher knife.
Police responding to a call of shots fired about 3:15 p.m. found the man on the sidewalk in the 8300 block of South Ellis Avenue.
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Two men were killed in separate homicides Saturday night in Lake County.
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Officers saw two men chasing one another in the 7800 block of South Lafayette Avenue about 10:50 p.m. and then heard gunshots a short time later.
The 26-year-old man was shot in both legs, the side and the shoulder about 2:15 a.m. in the 4600 block of West Madison Street.
A man was critically wounded when another man who argued with him early Sunday over a cell phone after a West Pullman neighborhood party started shooting.
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The men, 22 and 28, were outside in the 10500 block of South Lafayette Avenue when they were shot about 3:20 p.m.
The principal managed to take the gun away from the boy, and police believe the child fired it on accident.
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What is known is that the 22-year-old man was in the 5100 block of West Dickens Avenue when he was shot in the leg about 11 p.m.
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