Homicide Watch Chicago

By BRITTANY REYES Homicide Watch Chicago Aaren O’Connor wasn’t mixed up with the wrong crowd. She didn’t walk down an alley late at night, look at someone the wrong way or give anyone the wrong impression. She was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time and, as she sat in her car in … Read more →

By DANIEL BROWN, JORDAN OWEN and JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire Cook County Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 cash reward for information that leads to the arrest of the person responsible for the shooting death of Aaren O’Connor. O’Connor died two days after she was struck by a stray bullet while talking to her … Read more →

By JORDAN OWEN and JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire Aaren O’Connor was in her car, talking on the phone to her father in California, when she was struck by a stray bullet Friday night in the South Side Heart of Chicago neighborhood. Two days later she was dead. About 7:30 p.m. Friday, the 25-year-old California … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 17 people were killed in violence in Chicago in the last week, including one of the most shocking crimes in the city in recent memory in which six members of the same family, including two young boys, were found slain in a home that one responding police … Read more →