Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least nine people were killed in violence in Chicago last week, though one of the deaths is being treated an accident; and the body of a 10th victim was found after he’d been missing by his family for almost two months. A 33-year-old man died Sunday morning, about … Read more →

Brian Johnson died at a hospital Saturday evening, about three hours after arriving at another hospital with a gunshot wound to the head. The 18-year-old was shot Saturday afternoon in the Washington Park neighborhood, and showed up at Provident Hospital about 3 p.m. after an attack in the 300 block of East 56th Street, according … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor At least 10 people were killed in slayings throughout Chicago last week. One man was stabbed to death and six people were fatally shot over the weekend, when 19 others were wounded by gunfire. The most recent killing happened when a restaurant security guard shot and killed an … Read more →

A 56-year-old man was died Tuesday after being stabbed in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in June. Brian Johnson was stabbed June 17 in the 1000 block of West 87th Street, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Johnson, of the 9100 block of South May Street, died at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak … Read more →