Homicide Watch Chicago

Willie Mims / Photo from Cook County Sheriff’s office BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor A man already in jail awaiting trial for possession of a stolen vehicle has now been charged with murder after prosecutors claim he used the vehicle in an August 2014 Englewood drive-by shooting that killed Dearies Arnold. Arnold, 26, … Read more →

Dearies Arnold, 26, was fatally shot this month in the Englewood neighborhood. Reader “Rose” posted this about him: Dearies was well loved by everyone I feel he is a fine young man always respectable it is a tradgety [sic] that his life was taken from him I pray for his mother all his family an … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Eleven people were shot to death in homicides throughout Chicago last week. Seven of the killings happened over the weekend, when 29 other people were shot and wounded. The most recent murders happened when 37-year-old James Sterling and 29-year-old Amy Holmes-Sterling were killed in what police are calling … Read more →

Dearies Arnold memorial / Photo by Michael Lansu BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Dearies Arnold was a well dressed man who would literally give people the shirt off his back, friends said. Arnold, 26, was in the 7100 block of South Green Street about 7 p.m. Monday when a white car drove past … Read more →

Dearies Arnold was killed in a drive-by shooting Monday night in the Englewood neighborhood. Arnold, 26, was in the 7100 block of South Green Street when a white car drove past and someone inside opened fire just before 7 p.m. Monday, authorities said. Arnold, of the 7100 block of South Champlain Avenue, was shot once … Read more →