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 DANIEL BROWN Chicago Sun-Times Wire Davon P. Smith was killed in a Woodlawn neighborhood drive-by shooting early Saturday on the South Side. The 26-year-old Smith was outside in the 6100 block of South Rhodes about 4:25 a.m. when a vehicle pulled up and someone fired shots, hitting him in the neck, according to Chicago … Read more →