Homicide Watch Chicago

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times Just an hour after John “Buck” Buckner purchased a new Dodge Charger, he was gunned down in front of his Morgan Park home, where friends and his 11-year-old grandson gathered to admire his new ride, Cook County prosecutors said Friday. Buckner, a civilian employee of the Chicago Police Department, was … Read more →

An 18-year-old man has been charged with fatally shooting John “Buck” Buckner, a civilian employee of the Chicago Police Department, last month outside his Morgan Park neighborhood home. William Cochran was charged early Friday with first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm for the shooting death of the 59-year-old Buckner on Sept. 16, according … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 16 people died from violence last week in Chicago, including a 14-year-old boy and a former star basketball player at a Southwest Side high school. Eight of those were fatally shot over an especially bloody weekend, during which at least 45 other people were wounded by gunfire. … Read more →

By JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times Wire John W. Buckner, a civilian employee of the Chicago Police Department, was killed in a shooting Wednesday night in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the Far South Side. Buckner, 59, was unloading groceries from his car near his home in the 11500 block of South Church about 8:45 p.m. … Read more →