Homicide Watch Chicago

This slideshow requires JavaScript. BY KENNY NGUYEN Homicide Watch Chicago Joseph Kaman dreamed of finishing college, and the homeless man spent much of his time studying at the Jefferson Park Library, family said. Last month, three other vagrants beat and strangled the 45-year-old Kaman to death in the 4800 block of North Lipps Avenue because … Read more →

Police found the body of a homeless man inside a Northwest Side garbage bin Oct. 14. He was later identified as 45-year-old Joseph Kaman. Reader “Anonymous” posted this about the killing: The police said they are certain he was a homeless man. But whatever his story was, he was still someone’s child, brother, cousin, father(?). … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Four people were shot to death, one man was fatally stabbed and another was beaten and strangled last week in Chicago. Three of the six murder victims were fatally shot over the weekend, when at least 19 other people were wounded by gunfire. The most recent killing happened … Read more →

BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times A 45-year-old homeless man was strangled, beaten and sodomized by three other vagrants because one of the attackers thought he had stolen his cell phone, prosecutors said Friday. After Joseph Kaman was repeatedly stomped on, he was thrown into a Dumpster on the Northwest Side sometime between Monday night and … Read more →