Homicide Watch Chicago

By RUMMAN HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times A 17-year-old boy is the second person to be charged with a Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood shooting that left teenagers Donta Parker and Sakinah Reed dead earlier this month. Joshua Lofton is the second person charged in the Jan. 5 shooting in the 7500 block of South Dorchester. He faces … Read more →

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times A 16-year-old boy was ordered held without bond Wednesday for allegedly killing Donta Parker and Sakinah Reed, and wounding a third teen while the trio of victims was walking home from school in Grand Crossing last week. Anthony Murphy, already on probation for a weapons case, gunned down Parker, 16, … Read more →

By MITCHELL ARMENTROUT Chicago Sun-Times Wire A 16-year-old boy has been charged with killing South Side teenagers Donta Parker and Sakinah Reed, and wounding a third teen in a Grand Crossing neighborhood drive-by shooting last week. Anthony Murphy faces two counts of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated battery with a firearm for the … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire The new year got off to a bloody start in Chicago, with at least 16 people, five of them teenagers, killed in shootings across the city last week, including at least four who died in a series of shootings Friday night. The week ended violently with more than 30 … Read more →

A teenage boy and girl—Donta Parker and Sakinah Reed—were killed and a third teen was wounded in a Grand Crossing neighborhood drive-by shooting Tuesday afternoon. The three were standing on a corner in the 7600 block of South Dorchester about 3:30 p.m. when a vehicle pulled up and someone inside started shooting, according to Chicago … Read more →