Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire Just one week after no fatal shootings were reported in Chicago for the first time in over four years, the city saw another outbreak of violence that left at least 15 people killed, including a pair of separate incidents in which two men died. Another man died after his … Read more →

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times A South Side woman used an unusual method to kill her boyfriend Darrius Ellis—poisoning him with bleach—and now she’s charged with murder, Cook County prosecutors said Thursday. Ellis, 26, died after he ingested bleach during a fight with Yasmine T. Elder, 24, in a minivan earlier this week, Assistant State’s … Read more →

Darrius Ellis died early Monday and an autopsy showed he had been forced to an ingest a “caustic substance” in the South Side West Englewood neighborhood. The death of the 26-year-old Ellis was ruled a homicide, but authorities are not saying what the victim was forced to drink. Police were called about 3 a.m. Monday … Read more →