Homicide Watch Chicago

Five people have been killed and at least 18 others wounded — including a 12-year-old boy left in critical condition — in shootings across the city since Friday night. The most recent fatal shooting happened around 2:10 a.m. Sunday in the 300 block of South Cicero in the West Side’s Austin neighborhood, police said. Edward … Read more →

DNAinfo reports that the mother of Clifton Barney, 17, killed Friday near a Grand Crossing alley, believes the shooting was in retaliation for a murder earlier this month. Read more here. Read more →

A man was shot to death in the South Side Chatham neighborhood Friday night, police said. Clifton Barney, 17, of the 7800 block of South Evans Avenue, was pronounced dead at the scene at 8 p.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. The man was found with a gunshot wound to the chest … Read more →