Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire It was another violent week in Chicago, with at least 16 people killed by gunfire, a 2-month-old boy dying from child abuse, a man suffereing fatal injured from an explosion in his garage, and woman killed in a hit-and-run crash that also injured her husband. The week’s latest homicide … Read more →

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with fatally shooting 16-year-old boy Christian Bandemer last Friday morning near U.S. Cellular Field in the Bridgeport neighborhood. Anthony Mendoza was arrested Friday and charged with first-degree murder, according to the Cook County state’s attorney’s office. The teen was shot in the chest about 11:35 a.m. in the 3500 … Read more →

Sixteen-year-old Christian Bandemer was shot to death Friday morning in the Bridgeport neighborhood on the South Side, just a couple of blocks from U.S. Cellular Field. The teen was shot in the chest about 11:35 a.m. in the 3500 block of South Parnell, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Bandemer, who … Read more →