Homicide Watch Chicago

David Silva / Photo from Chicago Police BY LEEANN SHELTON Sun-Times Media Wire David Silva has been charged with the murder in the shooting death of Jimero Starling this month in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Starling and his friends were riding bicycles on Division Street between Kedzie and Spaulding avenues after a party when Silva, … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Fourteen people were shot to death last week throughout Chicago. Nine of the murders happened during the three-day holiday weekend, when at least 60 other people shot and wounded. Additionally, man and woman were fatally shot early Monday. Their identifies have not yet been released. On Sunday, 23-year-old … Read more →

BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times Even after Jimero Starling told a group Latin Kings that he also was in their gang, they still killed him, Cook County prosecutors said. Starling and his pals were riding their bicycles west on Division Street between Kedzie and Spaulding avenues after leaving a friend’s party early Wednesday morning when … Read more →

Jimero Starling was shot and killed Wednesday morning in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Starling, 19, was shot in the head in the 3300 block of West Division Street about 6:30 a.m., authorities said. Starling, of the 1500 block of North Karlov Avenue, died at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Nobody … Read more →