By FRANK MAIN Chicago Sun-Times A stranger approached Yolanda Strong at the hospital on the day her husband was shot to death. At first, she thought he was a Chicago Police detective. But the man in the suit was Andrew Holmes, a crisis responder for a new $1.7 million, two-year program funded by the city. … Read more →
By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times A Calumet Heights man shot and killed his longtime friend Anthony Strong over the July Fourth weekend because the pal touched his Cadillac, Cook County prosecutors said in court Tuesday. John Watley was angry that Strong and others were touching his car Sunday, so he went inside his home in … 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 →
Anthony Strong was killed in a Sunday afternoon shooting in the Calumet Heights neighborhood. The 48-year-old Strong was shot in the right side of the chest about 4:55 p.m. in the 9200 block of South Harper, police said. Strong, who lived on the same block where he was shot, was taken to Christ Medical Center … Read more →
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