1 Dead, 7 Wounded In Shootings On Christmas Eve, Christmas Day
The most recent non-fatal shooting occurred Wednesday evening when two teens were wounded in a drive-by shooting in the Ashburn neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
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The most recent non-fatal shooting occurred Wednesday evening when two teens were wounded in a drive-by shooting in the Ashburn neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
A West Englewood man was ordered held on $500,000 bond Friday for allegedly killing his 28-day-old son on Halloween.
Sources said the man's friend was found shot to death in a stairwell less than two miles away last week, and authorities believe the deaths are related.
Police said the attack happened around 10:30 p.m. Monday, near the Green Line station at 63rd Street and Ashland Avenue.
The youngest person wounded was a boy thought to be 5 or 6, who was shot in the shoulder about 5:40 p.m. near 56th and Mozart streets.
The four men were sitting in a vehicle in the 1400 block of West 73rd Place when two gunmen opened fire on them about 6:20 p.m.
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.
A Friday autopsy determined Demari Brown died from multiple blunt force injuries and child abuse, and the death was ruled a homicide,
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The most recent fatal shooting happened about 3 a.m. Saturday on the Near West Side.
They victims, both males of unknown age, were shot about 12:30 p.m. in the 7200 block of South Paulina Street.
Dwan Long was fatally shot in the chest when two men walked up and one of them opened fire about 8:05 p.m. in the 8200 block of South Avalon Avenue.
Tythia Thigpen was charged with attacking the officer as he exited his police cruiser to break up a street fight in the West Englewood neighborhood on Saturday.
A man was critically hurt in a shooting in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side Wednesday night.
No one was in custody for any of the shootings Tuesday morning.
Lenardo Allison, 26, was found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head in a parking lot near 62nd Street and Ashland Avenue.
A child was injured during a fire Wednesday night in the West Englewood neighborhood.
Three men were killed and nine others wounded in gun violence across the city since Monday afternoon, including two men who were found shot to death in West Pullman early Tuesday.
A man and woman were injured minutes apart in two separate shootings on the South Side late Monday.
A man was critically hurt in a high-speed crash in the West Englewood neighborhood late Saturday.
Tatiana Meakens pleaded guilty to two counts of child endangerment and Judge Diane Cannon sentenced her to five years in prison.
The shootings came as July drew to a close and police officials announced the number of shootings decreased when compared to the same months in 2012 and 2011.
One teen, a 16-year-old boy, was in the 1700 block of West 71st Street in the West Englewood about 7:55 p.m. when a group of males approached him and demanded the bicycle he was riding.
The shooting occurred about 8:50 p.m. in the 1800 block of West Garfield Boulevard.
The most recent shooting occurred early Monday in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
