Homicide Watch Chicago

By ANDY GRIMM, MITCH DUDEK, STEFANO ESPOSITO, MITCHELL ARMENTROUT and ASHLEE REZIN Chicago SUn-Times Alexis Stubbs was heard on voicemail screaming, “Daddy don’t” while she was beaten and stabbed to death by the man she considered her stepfather, Cook County prosecutors said in court Tuesday. Alexis, 12, was killed Sunday in her North Side apartment. … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Homicide Watch Chicago As the temperatures started to heat up last week, the homicide total in CHicago jumped to 19 last week, matching the high for any week so far in 2017. And the year continues to keep pace with 2016’s total of about 780 homicides, the highest total in the city … Read more →

By STEFANO ESPOSITIO, MITCHELL ARMENTROUT, ASHLEE REZIN and MITCH DUDEK Chicago Sun-Times He didn’t want the other children in the building to see their friend’s blood. So Reggie Taylor, the maintenance man, dropped a painter’s tarp over the crimson stains blotting the hallway carpet in the North Side apartment building where 12-year-old Alexis Stubbs lived—and … Read more →