Homicide Watch Chicago

By STEFANO ESPOSITO Chicago Sun-Times The off-duty Chicago Police officer charged with murdering an unarmed man earlier this month also pulled a handgun on Jose Nieves last December, a Cook County prosecutor said during the officer’s bond hearing Thursday. And after Officer Lowell Houser shot and killed Nieves Jan. 2, he told a 911 dispatcher … Read more →

By SAM CHARLES Chicago Sun-Times A veteran Chicago Police officer who fatally shot Jose Nieves on the Northwest Side earlier this year has been charged with first-degree murder. Lowell Houser, 57, was charged with murder on Wednesday. Houser, an officer assigned to the mass transit unit, fatally shot Nieves, who was unarmed, while off duty … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least eight people were killed in Chicago violence last week, including two brothers and a pair of teenage boys, all of whom died after a pair of shootings on the West Side. The boys were killed in a drive-by shooting that also left a 65-year-old woman was wounded … Read more →

By SAM CHARLES Chicago Sun-Times An off-duty Chicago Police officer fatally shot 38-year-old Jose Nieves in the Northwest Side Hermosa neighborhood after an argument Monday morning, officials said. Nieves was shot several times and did not have a weapon, according to police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. “I have … Read more →