BY SUSAN DU Homicide Watch Chicago Carol Robinson usually doesn’t react to the sound of gunshots. They’re a common occurrence in her South Chicago community, she said. But something made her spring out of bed and run down to the door the day her son was gunned down just outside their home. “It had to …
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A drive-by shooting in June killed 21-year-old Carl Austin. Today, his mother writes in about the burden of his loss: These young men taking the life of other young men fail to realize that when they shoot and kill those bullets have a domino effect on the family, when he shot Carl he shot my …
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A man is dead and two others were wounded during a drive-by shooting Saturday in the South Chicago neighborhood. The drive-by shooting occurred at 4:30 p.m. in the 8600 block of South Kingston Avenue, police News Affairs Officer Daniel O’Brien said. Carl Austin, 21, of the 8600 block of S. Kingston, was dead at the …
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