Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 16 people were killed last week in Chicago as the city’s homicide total edged closer to the 600 mark, a number not seen in decades. That number included seven people killed in a bloody 12-hour period starting just before 7 p.m. Friday and ending about 7 a.m. … Read more →

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times In retaliation for a gang beating, a 15-year-old boy riding in an SUV fatally shot 20-year-old Carlos Ocampo on his bicycle on a Northwest Side street, then got out and repeatedly shot him as he lay on the ground, prosecutors said Friday. The details emerged Friday in Cook County bond … Read more →

Carlos Ocampo was shot to death Tuesday evening, about three blocks from his home in the Northwest Side Belmont Gardens neighborhood. At 6:09 p.m., the 20-year-old was outside in the 2500 block of North Kostner when someone got out of a parked vehicle and opened fire before running away, according to Chicago Police. Ocampo was … Read more →