By JARED LANDSMAN and TRISTAN SIMS Homicide Watch Chicago At least twelve people were killed in violence in Chicago this past week, and that number may rise by four. The most recent murder occurred late Saturday in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, where 25-year-old Elbert Harris was found with multiple gunshot wounds at 10 p.m. … Read more →
By MAUDLYNE IHEJIRIKA Chicago Sun-Times Wire Roberto Cervantes shot himself in the head in a murder-suicide Friday that left two other men—his brother Joel Cervantes, and his father Jesus Cervantes—fatally shot and stabbed at a Northwest Side home, according to autopsies. It was a hot summer afternoon and neighbors were hanging out on their porches, … Read more →
By MAUDLYNE IHEJIRIKA Chicago Sun-Times It was a hot summer Friday afternoon and neighbors were hanging out on their porches, gabbing about the weekend’s block party, when gunfire suddenly erupted. Nobody on the leafy, normally peaceful 4600 block of North Kostner could believe it—perhaps it was firecrackers or someone hammering? Then police converged on a … Read more →
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