Homicide Watch Chicago

At least 11 people were killed in Chicago the week of Thanksgiving, from November 20-26, including a 61-year-old man who was mutilated by his son, prosecutors said. On Saturday night at 9 p.m., officers responding to a well-being check at a home in the 11500 block of South Bishop found Carl Edmondson, 61, in the … Read more →

James Jones, 38, was shot to death early Thursday in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, police said. Jones was driving south through an alley with a female passenger at 1:35 a.m. in the 400 block of East 77th Street when they saw three males in the alley, according to Chicago Police and the … Read more →

By BECKY SCHLIKERMAN Chicago Sun-Times Most people wouldn’t consider James Jones a good guy. He sold drugs, according to his family. He’d been in prison and was out on parole. But Saturday, when a man started shooting at Jones and his mother on the South Side, the 21-year-old covered his mother’s body with his own, … Read more →