Robber Killed By Store Owner Was Suspect In Shooting Of Cop
A parolee shot and killed by a South Side store owner during an attempted robbery Tuesday evening was a prime suspect in a shooting that wounded a south suburban police last month.
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A parolee shot and killed by a South Side store owner during an attempted robbery Tuesday evening was a prime suspect in a shooting that wounded a south suburban police last month.
About 6:30 p.m. a man in his 20s armed with a handgun tried to rob a cell phone store in the 1700 block of East 87th Street. The store's owner, armed with a handgun himself, shot an killed the would-be robber.
Charges are pending against the driver whose passenger was killed in a crash Monday afternoon on the South Side, an accident police say was drug-related.
Officers found the 18-year-old shot several times in the chest and shoulder about 6:35 p.m. in the 8400 block of South Muskegon Avenue.
Four people were hospitalized early Tuesday after three vehicles, including a Chicago Police SUV, crashed in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
A man was hospitalized late Thursday after he flipped his vehicle and hit a tree while driving drunk on the South Side.
One man, 27, was shot twice in the right arm, police said. The second man, 24, was also shot, but details on his injury were not yet known.
Both were charged late Tuesday night after they were identified as the suspects in several South Side home burglaries.
The fire started in a 1-1/2-story frame house about 1 a.m. in the 200 block of West 113th Street.
In September, 29-year-old Chandus Ousley allegedly stabbed and killed 24-year-old April Dixon inside her apartment in the 3500 block of South Rhodes Avenue.
The man, thought to be in his 30s, was found shot in a gangway in the 8200 block of South Drexel Avenue about 8:45 a.m.
A man was critically wounded in an Englewood neighborhood shooting Saturday afternoon on the South Side.
Dwayne Timberlake, 22, was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly shooting and killing 24-year-old Princess Cole Streeter near the intersection of 75th Street and Exchange Avenue in the early hours of Feb. 5, 2011
The jack-knifed truck was first reported about 2:25 a.m. near Wentworth Avenue.
The fatal shooting happened in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side. Jose Rodriquez, 30, was shot in the head about 7 p.m. in the 6000 block of South Talman Avenue.
The man, thought to be about 18-20 years old, was found dead in a back stairwell in the 6500 block of South Bishop Street.
Three men are being treated at area hospitals after a driver who struck two pedestrians with his car in the South Side Burnside neighborhood was then dragged from his car and beaten by an angry crowd.
Jason Wells and a 21-year-old man are accused of firing a paintball gun at people on Halloween.
Marcus Gaiter, 25, was sitting in a vehicle with another person in the 8600 block of South Morgan Street about 9:45 p.m. when he heard shots and felt pain.
The man, thought to be in his 50s, was discovered dead at the scene in the 1200 block of West 72nd Place about 5:25 a.m.
The crash happened about 2:30 a.m. in the 7500 block of South South Chicago Avenue.
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.
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.
Fire Department officials said a blaze that led to the partial collapse of an apartment building in Park Manor appeared to be the result of arson.
The shootings occurred at 8:56 a.m. with one victim shot in the 8200 block of South Maryland, and the second shot in the 8200 block of South Drexel.
