Boy, 13, shot and killed inside home in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood
The circumstances of the shooting remain unknown, and police have only said a gun discharged.
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The circumstances of the shooting remain unknown, and police have only said a gun discharged.
Chicago police said a man is in custody for a fatal double shooting and a stabbing that happened minutes apart on the same block.
Chicago police said the man is in custody for the fatal shooting and the stabbing that happened minutes apart on the same block. Sabrina Franza reports.
The ages of the victims range from 14 to 64.
Derrick Taylor, 32, has been charged with child endangerment and unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon.
There were reports of a shooting at the bar on Kedzie Avenue near 54th Street.
Police said, shortly after 11 a.m., a 26-year-old man was standing in the 4700 block of South Evans Avenue, when three men ran up and shot him multiple times.
A man was dead and police were searching for multiple gunmen after a brazen shooting in broad daylight on Saturday in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. The victim leaves behind a pregnant girlfriend.
Chicago police said the man was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head.
A Chicago man has been arrested on felony child endangerment charges, after police said he left a loaded handgun unattended while he was sleeping on Thursday before he woke up to find his two sons had been shot, one of them fatally.
A man was found shot to death Saturday morning inside a burning home in the East Hyde Park neighborhood.
He was charged with one felony count of aggravated battery with discharged with a firearm.
Firefighters responded to the fire around 6:30 a.m. in the 4900 block of South Cornell Avenue.
Chicago police said the 32-year-old man was arguing with two other people inside an apartment that turned into a fight.
Fire crews arrived to treat the victim, who died at the scene. A weapon was also recovered.
The U.S. Marshals said they had arrested Ricardo Gonzales, 32, in Cobb County, Georgia. He was wanted on a Chicago Police Department warrant for kidnapping, and is wanted on probable cause for two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder.
A high-ranking Venezuelan street gang member who was wanted for a triple shooting in Chicago in January that killed two women and injured another has been arrested in Georgia, federal agents said.
A high-ranking Venezuelan street gang member who was wanted for a triple shooting in Chicago in January that killed two women and injured another has been arrested in Georgia, federal agents said Friday. Another member of the same gang also was arrested in North Carolina in connection to the shooting.
Fire crews treated her and then took her to Mt. Sinai Hospital in fair condition.
A 28-year-old woman was on the sidewalk when she heard shots and felt pain.
The older boy suffered a gunshot wound to his head and was taken to the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital, where he died.
Chicago police confirmed Tiara Lee-Roberts, 28, was charged with two felony counts of murder, including first-degree murder.
A 5-year-old boy also suffered a graze wound when the gunshots were fired in a home in the Grand Crossing neighborhood. Jermont Terry reports.
Chicago police said several people were inside a liquor store around 10:20 p.m. when two groups got into an argument that turned into a fight.
Police are speaking with a person of interest.
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