Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 19 people were killed in Chicago violence last week, pushing the year’s homicide total to over the 550 mark, a number that could go up when pending autopsy results are complete. One of those undetermined cases involved a severed head and other body parts that were found … Read more →

A man fatally shot early Sunday in the South Side Calumet Heights neighborhood has been identified as 28-year-old Antonio Porterfield. He was shot in the neck about 4:30 a.m. in the 9200 block of South Colfax, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Porterfield, of the 12000 block of South Indiana, … Read more →