Homicide Watch Chicago

By ZOE FISHER Homicide Watch Chicago Amari Catchings was only 18, but he was definitely a family man. “We got to stick together, no matter what,” his older brother, Joshua Rials, remembers him saying. The youngest of three children, he was not a fan of arguing and was assigned the peacemaker role in his family. … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 14 people died from violence in Chicago last week, including a woman who was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend on a crowded CTA train on the South Side, and the weekend was especially deadly, with seven fatal shootings reported between Friday night and Sunday. The deadly … Read more →

Two teenagers are facing charges after 18-year-old Amari Catchings was killed in a crash as the group was fleeing police in a stolen vehicle Tuesday afternoon in the Bronzeville neighborhood, according to police. Officers investigating a call of a person with a gun walked up to a vehicle in the 4200 block of South State … Read more →