Homicide Watch Chicago

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor At least eight men were murdered throughout Chicago last week. Three of the victims were fatally shot over the weekend, when at least 17 other people were wounded by gunfire. The most recent killing happened when 20-year-old Juan Mercado was shot while sitting on a front porch in … Read more →

BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times The Chicago Police captain wounded in a deadly Englewood shootout Tuesday was injured while warning his colleagues about the armed Indiana fugitive who had opened fire at the first officers who had arrived on the scene, prosecutors said Friday. Capt. Ed Kulbida was taking cover in a vestibule with other … Read more →

BY SUN-TIMES STAFF For two years, residents in an Indianapolis neighborhood lived in fear of the man with a Jekyll and Hyde personality who allegedly had threatened to shoot anyone who stepped into his yard. The picture emerging of Daniel Brown — wanted by Indiana authorities for a weekend shooting spree and also suspected of … Read more →