Homicide Watch Chicago

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times A purported gang member already awaiting trial for another murder has been charged in the deadly shooting that claimed the life of 7-year-old Amari Brown last July 4th weekend. Amari was killed after watching fireworks with his father on the sidewalk shortly before midnight in Humboldt Park in the 1100 … Read more →

By JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times Wire The man charged with fatally shooting 7-year-old Amari Brown over the July 4th weekend has been extradited to Chicago and is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday. Rasheed Martin, 20, was arrested at the Bartley Manor Complex at 3900 Tower Ave. in Superior, Wis., on July 22, according to … Read more →

A man suspected in the shooting that killed 7-year-old Amari Brown over the July 4th weekend was arrested in northwest Wisconsin on Wednesday. Rasheed Martin, 20, was arrested at the Bartley Manor Complex at 3900 Tower Ave. in Superior, Wis., according to a statement from the Douglas County sheriff’s office. Sheriff’s police and the U.S. … Read more →

By JORDYN HOLMAN Chicago Sun-Times Some were barely tall enough to peer inside the white casket. Others wore green T-shirts paying homage to Amari Brown’s crime fighting, pizza-loving heroes. A few even went a step further and wore Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles costumes to honor the 7-year-old boy who was gunned down on the 4th … Read more →

By JARED LANDSMAN and TRISTAN SIMS Homicide Watch Chicago Sixteen people were killed throughout Chicago last week, 11 of them over a violent Independence Day weekend,when the victims included a 7-year-old boy hot while watching fireworks in Humboldt Park on Saturday. Seven-year-old Amari Brown, who lived in the 500 block of North Drake, and a … Read more →

The Fourth of July weekend turned into an explosion of violence across Chicago, where shootings left 10 people dead — including a 7-year-old boy — and at least 53 others injured from Thursday evening to early Monday. Seven-year-old Amari Brown was killed in a shooting that also left a 26-year-old woman wounded late Saturday in … Read more →

By JON SEIDEL and MITCH DUDEK Chicago Sun-Times The bullet that fatally wounded 7-year-old Amari Brown on the Fourth of July was meant for his father, Chicago’s top cop said Sunday. Antonio Brown, a ranking gang member with 45 previous arrests, was not cooperating with police as of Sunday afternoon as they tried to find … Read more →

By REEMA AMIN Chicago Sun-Times Wire Seven-year-old Amari Brown spent the daytime on the Fourth of July at his Humboldt Park home with his mom’s side of the family, including his maternal grandmother, 52-year-old Vida Hailey. That would be the last time she would see him alive. Just after midnight, Hailey said the boy’s mother … Read more →