BY KALEY FOWLER Homicide Watch Chicago High school student Devonte Carthan always “made sure he got his grades right” and hoped to use college as a way out of the Altgeld Gardens community, a friend said. “He wanted to get out of the neighborhood and experience life on his own,” said friend Amirius Clinton, 19. …
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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 …
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Devonte Carthan was shot to death in the Burnside neighborhood Tuesday night. Carthan, 17, was riding a bicycle in the in the 9200 block of South Dobson Avenue when a silver car drove up and someone inside opened fire about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. An acquaintance drove Carthan, of the 13200 block of South …
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