Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 6 people were homicide victims last week in Chicago, though one was ruled self-defense. And the body of a woman murdered months earlier was found dismembered and packed in suitcases in the Little Calumet River, a grisly crime for which two men are being held without bond. … Read more →

Ashton Simpson was inside his home in Auburn Gresham on Sunday night, when he heard the sound of gunshots outside to check. Moments later, he became the second person fatally shot in about two hours in the neighborhood. Simpson, 36, was inside a building in the 8300 block of South Wood when he heard shots … Read more →