Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 27 people died from violence in Chicago last week, including 17 in the deadliest weekend of the year in Chicago. The death toll included a 14-year-old honor student, and twin 17-year-old boys. At least 17 people, including four teenagers, were killed and 41 people were wounded in … Read more →

Fourteen-year-old Demarco Webster Jr. was killed by a stray bullet early Saturday while helping his father move in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side. Demarco, an eighth-grade honor student at Jensen Scholastic Academy, was helping his father put items in his car about 1:23 a.m. in the 500 block of South Central, authorities … Read more →