Homicide Watch Chicago

By BLAIR PADDOCK Homicide Watch Chicago Jervon Morris was an “average teenager,” spending his time playing basketball, drawing, and doing volunteer work, according to his sister, Tiffany Morris. Suffering cataracts from a very young age, and a surgery-gone-wrong, had left the boy blind in one eye and suffering other vision problems. But he didn’t let … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Homicide Watch Chicago In one of the bloodiest weeks of the first half of the year, a total of 19 people were murdered in Chicago last week, including a visually-impaired teenager, a man shot to death by his stepson, and two young women who were the victims in murder-suicides. The week started … Read more →

Life was never easy for Jervon Morris. The special needs student had lost most of his eyesight by age 2, and had other physical and mental impairments. His death was not easy either. On Memorial Day, the 20-year-old lost his life to gun violence just a block from his Longwood Manor neighborhood home on the … Read more →