Chicago shooting kills 8-year-old girl, wounds 10 people: cops
CHICAGO — Eleven people were shot Saturday night while standing outside a family gathering, including a young girl who died in what Chicago police believe was gang-related violence on the city’s South Side, police said Sunday. Four of the victims were children. An 8-year-old girl was shot in the head and died, and a 1-year-old […]
7-year-old dead in Chicago mass shooting, other children injured
At least three children were among eight people shot in Chicago on Saturday night, with police reporting that one 7-year-old girl was killed. Police responded to Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side after being alerted to 18 gunshot rounds in the area, Chicago Police Department officials said during a press conference […]
1 dead, 7 wounded after ‘likely gang-related’ shooting at Chicago family gathering
An investigation is underway in Chicago after a shooting at a family gathering Saturday evening left a 7-year-old dead and seven other adults and children injured. Chicago Police Deputy Chief Don Jerome said officers responded to a gunfire alert in which 18 shots were fired in the 2000 block of 52nd Street, west of Damen […]
Family outraged at Chicago police after black man who apparently shot at cops first was fatally struck by return fire
A family is demanding answers after their beloved Dexter Reed, 26, died after apparently firing at a Chicago police officer during a traffic stop last month. The road closure quickly stopped working. Around 3 p.m. on March 21, five members of the Chicago Police Department’s tactical unit stopped Reed for not wearing a seatbelt. One […]
Chicago police fired nearly 100 shots during fatal traffic stop: Video
Graphic body camera footage released Tuesday reveals the chaos that ensued when a plainclothes Chicago police officer fired nearly 100 shots during a traffic stop last month, killing one young man and wounding another. did. Dexter Reed, 26, died during a traffic stop in Humboldt Park on March 21 after being pulled over by a […]
Chicago police fired nearly 100 shots in 41 seconds during deadly traffic stop, video shows
A Chicago police officer fired nearly 100 shots in 41 seconds during a traffic stop, killing one man and injuring another officer, according to graphic video footage released Tuesday by police watchdogs. Last month, five officers from a tactical unit in an unmarked police vehicle surrounded an SUV driven by Dexter Reed for not wearing […]
Bags of antisemitic flyers with ‘rat poison’-like substance found in Chicago neighborhood: ‘Vile’
Dozens of bags containing anti-Semitic fliers and what appeared to be “rat poison” were found scattered around Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood on Monday morning. 43rd Ward Alderman Timmy Knudsen said his office received a tip that the fliers were being distributed in the heart of Lincoln Park near Geneva Terrace and Belden. Knudsen said the […]
Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot hired to investigate so-called ‘worst mayor in America’ at $400 an hour
The Village of Dalton, Illinois, voted Monday to hire former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot as a “special agent” to investigate Dalton Mayor Tiffany Henyard. Starting Tuesday, Lightfoot will be paid $400 an hour to gather information about Henyard’s alleged spending and financial mismanagement, as well as “state and federal violations.” Ahead of Monday’s vote, Lightfoot […]
At Least 15 Shot During Weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago
At least 15 people were shot, two of them fatally, over the weekend in Chicago, where Mayor Brandon Johnson is a Democrat. ABC7/ Chicago Sun-Times report The first of the two fatal shootings occurred around 11:45 p.m. Friday, when a 37-year-old man was standing near his car in the 1300 block of West 13th Street […]
Chicago Woman Accused of Helping Boyfriend Dump Body
A Chicago woman is accused of helping dispose of her boyfriend, an alleged murder victim, before fleeing to Arkansas. Kylea Davis, 18, is accused of helping her boyfriend Jordan Allison, 27, hide the body of a man she allegedly killed in a Chicago alley, according to CWB Chicago. He was charged with destroying evidence. report. […]