Security guard shoots robbery suspect in broad daylight downtown
The robber was placed into police custody and then taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with gunshot wounds.
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The robber was placed into police custody and then taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with gunshot wounds.
Victor Jacobo reports live from The Loop where a shooting investigation is underway.
Calumet City police responded to a call about a large group of men fighting in the 400 block of Buffalo Avenue.
A spokesperson for Dolton said a person hiding in the bushes stepped out and shot three people moments before a balloon release was about to take place.
One man is in custody, and another is on the run after a shooting led to officers firing shots in south suburban Calumet City, Illinois, overnight.
Witnesses reported that a balloon release was about to take place when someone, who was hiding in the bushes nearby, stepped out and opened fire.
Chicago police accuse Jermaine Sutton, 26, of fatally shooting a 57-year-old man in East Garfield Park over the weekend.
The victim was struck multiple times throughout his body and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
A 2-year-old boy has died after he accidentally shot himself on Monday afternoon in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.
The woman accused of firing the gun was taken into custody, police said.
Police were called to the scene to find a 21-year-old man outside unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A witness told police two people exited a black sedan and fired at the victim, and then got back in the car and fled.
At least six people have been killed and 12 others have been wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago.
The teenage boy was shot three times in the body and was left in critical condition, while the woman was shot twice in the right leg and was reported in fair condition.
The 34-year-old woman and the 16-year-old boy were outside in the 6700 block of South Cregier Avenue in South Shore when some people pulled up in a vehicle, displayed guns, and shot them both, police said.
Souleymane Diallo, 33, was arrested and charged with two felony counts, including first-degree murder, in the shooting of a 31-year-old man at a South Loop business Friday night.
The victim was shot in the right arm and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition, police said.
Police said at 3:30 a.m., the teen was a passenger in a vehicle stopped at a traffic light in the 700 block of South Wells Street, near Polk Street, when a man took out a gun and fired multiple shots at the car.
A man has been charged with firing shots at three people in a car last month in the South Shore neighborhood, before police opened fire on him during a foot chase.
A man has been charged with shooting and killing another man more than a year ago in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago.
An employee at a business in the South Loop was taken into custody Friday night after Chicago police said another man was shot and killed during a struggle over the employee's gun.
The families of two teenagers who were shot, one of them fatally, in Chicago's Douglass Park are now suing the park district and the suspect.
Anyone with information can give a tip anonymously and remain eligible for a cash reward.
Chicago police said the teen was taken to Comer Children's Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.
A teenager was shot in the head inside a home in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood.
