Homicide Watch Chicago

By JON SEIDEL Chicago Sun-Times Nearly three years after 14-year-old Endia Martin became a symbol of Chicago’s gun violence, a woman at the center of the street brawl that led to the teen’s death walked out of a courtroom a free woman. Again. A federal jury handed a rare loss to federal prosecutors Thursday, acquitting … Read more →

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times A Cook County Juvenile Court judge on Tuesday rejected a prosecutors’ motion to keep the teenage girl accused of murdering Endia Martin from having a jury trial. Under the Juvenile Court Act, the girl, now 16, isn’t eligible to have a jury trial because she doesn’t have a history of … Read more →

By ANDY GRIMM Chicago Sun-Times The man who provided the gun used to kill 14-year-old Endia Martin was sentenced Monday to 100 years in prison after being convicted of murder. “There are no excuses or rationalization for giving a child a gun to take to a ridiculous fight about a boy,” Judge Thaddeus Wilson said … Read more →

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times A Cook County Juvenile Court judge on Wednesday set a tentative May 16 trial date for the teenage girl accused of murdering Endia Martin. Judge Stuart Katz had previously granted the defense’s motion for a jury trial. But prosecutors have filed a motion, asking him to reconsider his decision. Katz … Read more →

By JON SEIDEL Chicago Sun-Times The aunt of the girl accused of fatally shooting Endia Martin has been indicted by a federal grand jury for her role in the 14-year-old’s 2014 murder. faces 10 years in federal prison if convicted after she was indicted for giving a loaded .38-caliber revolver to a minor. U.S. Magistrate … Read more →

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN and PATRICK JUDGE Chicago Sun-Times Donnell Flora said he has been like a father to his teenage niece since his brother was gunned down. But instead of being a role model, Flora, who is paralyzed from the waist down from a 2009 shooting, coaxed the girl toward a life of violence when … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Nine people were murdered last week in Chicago, and a 10th person died from injuries suffered in a mid-April shooting. The killings included seven shooting deaths, one stabbing and one man intentionally run over by an SUV. Four of the murders happened over the weekend, when 26 other … Read more →

BY JON SEIDEL AND RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times The mother of the 14-year-old girl accused of shooting her onetime friend in the back after a feud on Facebook said Wednesday she is “so sorry” for the death of Endia Martin. The alleged shooter’s mother, who the Chicago Sun-Times is not identifying because her daughter has … Read more →

BY MITCH DUDEK, JON SEIDEL AND BECKY SCHLIKERMAN Chicago Sun-Times A 14-year-old girl was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday after allegedly shooting another teenage girl in an argument over a boy, police said. The suspect was charged as a juvenile in the death Monday afternoon of 14-year-old Endia Martin, police said. In addition, the shooters … Read more →