Homicide Watch Chicago

Prosecutors claim Frederick Woods-Rivas fatally shot 17-year-old Ja-Quez Williams April 26 in the 5500 block of West North Avenue. Reader ” sosideirish” posted this about the killing: I can’t even imagine the pain of losing one of my grandsons, especially to street violence. I will never understand the need to murder one another when, as … Read more →

BY JESSICA KOSCIELNIAK AND EMILY BROSIOUS Homicide Watch Chicago Ja-Quez Williams wanted to become a police officer to stop the violence in his Austin community, his family said. The violence Ja-Quez, 17, longed to stop took his life before he ever got that chance when he was fatally shot in the head in the 5500 … Read more →

Frederick Woods-Rivas / Photo from Chicago Police BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Frederick Woods-Rivas was ordered held without bond Friday for allegedly fatally shooting 17-year-old Ja-Quez Williams last month in the Austin neighborhood. Ja-Quez was standing with a group on a sidewalk in the 5500 block of West North Avenue when 23-year-old Woods-Rivas … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Eight people were murdered throughout Chicago last week, raising the city’s homicide total to nearly 100. Five of the eight killings happened over the weekend, which also saw 35 other people wounded by gunfire. The most recent murder happened when 40-year-old Cicero resident Benito Juarez was stabbed during … Read more →

Jaquez Williams was fatally shot early Saturday in the Austin neighborhood. Williams, 17, was standing in the 5500 block of West North Avenue when an unidentified person approached and shot him in the head about 2 a.m., authorities said. Williams, of the 5400 block of West North Avenue, was dead at the scene, according to … Read more →