Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire While the public’s attention was drawn to fatal police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana, and the killing of five police officers in Dallas last week, at least 12 people died in violence in Chicago, a number that could rise. Police shootings in Baton Rouge and a Minneapolis suburb led … Read more →

Derion Smith died Tuesday afternoon, about 36 hours after being stabbed during a fight in the Ashburn neighborhood. The death was ruled a homicide, but police said the other man involved acted in self-defense. Smith, 23, was fighting with a 21-year-old man about 2:10 a.m. Monday in the 8000 block of South Pulaski when the … Read more →