A teenager has been charged with fatally shooting 16-year-old Jorge Ruiz earlier this year in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Jeremiah Nieves, 17, of the 1300 block of North Monticello, faces one count of first-degree murder, according to the Cook County state’s attorney’s office. Officers responding to a call of shots fired …
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BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Six people were killed throughout Chicago last week. Two of the killings happened over the weekend, when at least six other people were wounded by gunfire. The most recent killing happened when two men were shot inside a van in the 1400 block of West 71st Street in …
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A 16-year-old boy was found shot to death in the Humboldt Park neighborhood Tuesday night. Jorge Ruiz was shot multiple times and found in an alley in the 1600 block of North Keeler Avenue about 10:10 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. Ruiz, of the 1700 block of North Keeler Avenue, was declared dead at the scene, …
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