Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 16 people died from violence last week in Chicago, including a 14-year-old boy and a former star basketball player at a Southwest Side high school. Eight of those were fatally shot over an especially bloody weekend, during which at least 45 other people were wounded by gunfire. … Read more →

Last season, Deionte D. Harris helped lead Bogan High School to the city championship; Sunday morning, he was fatally shot in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side. Harris, 18, was shot in the face and thigh in the 8400 block of South Hermitage at 10:35 a.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook … Read more →